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Ability to use Cross Section Named Boundaries across references

We would like to be able to create cross section sheets by referencing previously created boundaries in a similar manner to how we currently are able to use Plan and Profile Named Boundaries across references.
almost 4 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Future consideration

. Can the process of creating the sheet layout be updated to select the intersections as key locations which are to be the centre of a sheet, then the remaining length between the intersections is divided to provide an optimal spacing.

The Sheet layout for alignment plans is not used verry much because it often places the sheet break within intersections. An intersection should be on one sheet without a break. Can the process of creating the sheet layout be updated to select the...
about 3 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Event point description reporting

I have imported several groups of horizontal event points such as viaduct start and endpoints. The points include their point description. I would like to report Station, Easting, Northing and the point description but the "Horizontal Alignment Ev...
almost 4 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Option to automatically call out each dimension by a letter and create a table of dimensions corresponding to the letter in SignCAD

To aid us in updating our state sign supplement, we would like the option for SignCAD to automatically call out each dimension by a letter and create a table of dimensions corresponding to the letter as shown in the attachment.
10 months ago in OpenRoads SignCAD 0 Future consideration

Place snappable points at key turnout elements, i.e. PS (.1) and PITO (.0)

To comply with US railroads standards, we need to place agency-specific cells at the turnouts. The cells must snap to either PS (point .1) or PITO (point .0). Right now these points are not snappable, neither graphically identifiable which makes m...
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 1 Needs review

Add ON/OFF toggle option to Civil Labeler for Arrow Head

Just like you already have the option to toggle on and off a Box Frame or Text Divider around a label and the option to have a leader line or not, we would find it very useful to have the option to toggle ON/OFF an arrowhead.
over 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Verify Turnout

Use the Geometry Connector with start and end elements chosen as turnouts. The converged result gives a disconnection between the regression alignment and the turnout. You can only discover it by zooming in to the closest possible view. A "Verify ...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Add a position tick mark to the Survey Decorators

Inroads allowed the user to toggle a tick mark, such as a plus symbol (+), to show the position of any survey point in the fieldbook. Very useful. ORD allows the toggling of many different attributes of a point by using Survey Decorators. Please a...
over 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Toggle for auto advancing to the next number in the place point tool.

Our workflow requires a different naming convention for different types of points. (Centerline points are 3000 series, section corners are 8000 series ect..) It would be handy to type the point number in once and then have the place point tool aut...
about 4 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Future consideration

OpenRoads SignCAD MSI or EXE with the /layout command for deployment image

Previous OpenRoads SignCAD releases were .msi which can be deployed and managed at scale quite easily in enterprise environments. The 2023 release is an executable (.exe); however, it doesn’t support the /layout switch like other Bentley platform-...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRoads SignCAD 0 Future consideration