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Maintain Item Types when extracting drainage or utility model from survey graphics.

When using "Extract From Graphic" tool to create a drainage or utility model object, the extraction process fails to bring the Item Type from the source object (in this example a surveyed gas line), leading the user to reattach the Item Type to th...
about 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / Item Types / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Strand patterns as a constraint on auto design.

Right now section strand patterns can be input and chosen from automatically by the auto design feature, but I feel this is a bit backwards thinking. Rather than inputting all possible strand patters why not set a template strand pattern with as m...
4 months ago in OpenBridge Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow Annotation Groups to annotate with Label Definitions

Now that the Civil Labeler definitions are stored within a dgnlib, i think it would be really useful to combine some functionality. Annotation Groups allow for annotating with text, cells, or lines. Adding with Label Definition would allow an anno...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add a “Chord" Toggle to all the Horizontal Curve Tools

To have to go to the Back Stage and select Settings ==> File ==> Design File Settings ==> Civil Formatting ==> Degree of Curve Method to change from an Arc Defined Curve to Chord Defined Curve is not a good workflow. In our State we ca...
over 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Temporary Dimension Lines in XSection Views

Currently in the XSection viewer in OpenRoads Designer if you have a corridor or linear template that touches our butts up against another corridor you can't place temporary dimension lines on those components to make measurements if the linear or...
over 3 years ago in Analytics / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Add option to create Mass Haul Diagram from End Area Volumes.

Currently the Mass Haul Diagram volumes are generated from 3D mesh volumes and the End Area Volumes report calculates the volumes from the cross section areas. Hence there is a difference between the Mass Ordinate values between the two reports. I...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Ability to edit Annotation Groups in any model

It's a little cumbersome to keep going back and forth between models when developing annotation groups. An alternative could be to be able to select the geometry that is shown as the example when in the annotation group manager.
over 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Deed Writer - Allow tool to apply for other survey categories

At present, the Deed Writer tool describes boundaries only. We should be allowed to use this tool to also describe easements and acquisitions. For example: If an easement is necessary to be described along the centerline of a sewer pipe.
about 1 year ago in OpenRoads Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Allow the use of multiple Horizontal Feature Constraints in Point Properties

The ability to target multiple Horizontal Feature Constraints for a template point and set priority on those individual Features. Similar to Target Aliasing.
over 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add a save button to the Manage Annotations dialog. DO NOT automatically save.

The manage annotations dialog that is used to create Annotation Definitions automatically saves any changes made. If the dialog is closed then all of the changes are saved even if there was not an intent to save them. Please add a save button or a...
almost 4 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration