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Superelevation Rules file configuration variable

Please add a config variable that allows us to point to the folder where the superelevation rules files reside but without specifying a specific superelevation rules file. This will be helpful when a project has multiple rules file to choose from ...
4 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Automated Catchment vs Alignment Low-Point Detection

Requirement:The system shall provide the ability to identify the low point at the intersection of a catchment area and the design alignment. This functionality shall assist the user in determining where a culvert is required. Process: Reference ...
4 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Intersecting Alignment Stations Report

Replicate an Inroads workflow of creating an intersection alignment report whereby selecting 1 baseline alignment and multiple crossing alignments to generate stations along each pair of alignments in a report XSL. https://bentleysystems.service-n...
8 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Allow OBM model to interact with OBM components in a referenced OBM model

Allow for an OBM bridge to utilize bridge components from a referenced OBM file to create geometry. Example: A project requires parallel design for steel and concrete beams. Allow OBM "File A" to contain the alignment, profile, deck, and steel bea...
8 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Inverse Tool - Be able to select fieldbook points and geometry points

There is an “inverse points” tool, but the key in for point numbers doesn’t work for geometry points, only for fieldbook points. Would like the report it created include an interior angle between three points (right now it only has the bearings ...
8 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Civil File Manager to upgrade/remove SS4 data

It is hit and miss if Civil File Manager can upgrade files containing SS4/10 data. Civil File Manager also cannot remove SS4/10 Civil data. There are still projects on the shelf that were begun in SS10 that now need to be upgraded, or projects des...
12 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

option to have the Named Boundaries "Show the Create Drawing Dialog" toggle stay on

As a designer it would be great to have an option to have the tool active as the default. There are very few instances where I would create sheets without this active. I know the other designers in our department operate the same way as well.
over 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Separate SUDA Seed and Feature Def DGNLIB

In the current software version it is necessary to have hydraulic prototypes, catalogs, ect. in the same dgnlib as any SUDA/SUE feature definitions. This is due to how prototypes and such are managed within the software. In the workspace/workset c...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Make Survey Attribution Easier to Import

Currently, ORD cannot process more than two attributes from a survey data file into their own unique attribute column. The workaround is tedious and unintuitive: First, modify the CSV file from the data collector (not good practice to modify a sur...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

Normal/parallel offset in vertical profile

In ORD it is possible to do a Profile Offset Transition. This methode makes a vertical offset. In case of a slope, the difference between the vertical offset and the normal/parallel offset is different. For large slopes, this is differences is too...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration