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Haunched (angled) deck soffit at outside edges extending to top flange of girder

Our bridges are designed with a haunched (or angled) soffit at the outside edges of the deck. These extend from the outside edge of the deck down to the top of the outside girder flange. Right now, this can be fudged in a deck template on a straig...
9 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 1 Planned

Use Analyze Point Tool in Sheet/Drawing Models

We need to be able to track alignment data to check sheet annotation. Would be very helpful to have an easy way to do this in sheets. Since an alignment or terrain would still need to be selected, the sheet scale shouldn't matter. This would work ...
about 3 years ago in Analytics / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Resolve Alias Definition - fields in the Target column need two clicks to bring up the drop down

In Drawing Annotation - Resolve Alias Definition dialog, the fields in the Target column need to be double-clicked before the dropdown arrow shows up for selection. It would be great if the dropdown showed up straight away as it can confuse users ...
18 days ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow benching to target template components or points

End Conditions with benching cannot target components or points within the same template. If this was possible, this would be a time saving feature (i.e. no need to create alternate surfaces that don't automatically update when the corridor is cha...
18 days ago in Modeling / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Generate Geometry Points with Deed Boundary Tool

RIght of Way take tables are required with named points. The normal workflow is to create points then origin point persist snap those elements creating the shape of the deed boundary to the points. In this way the legal reports show the point name...
6 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add ability to use manually drawn pier cap templates extruded up/down station

OBM is limited in the cap shapes it can accommodate currently. It would be very helpful if we had the ability to draw cap shapes in the front elevation view and use those as templates, which OBM extrudes in the up/downstation direction. We would l...
6 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Planned

Text favorite to honor math expressions

What I envision, would be the ability to define Math within a Text Favorite. So, let us say that "[[" would define the start of math in a text favorite. A text favorite could be created in that the value displayed, is math from element properties....
almost 4 years ago in Annotation 4 Future consideration

Trench Templates to automatically constrain themselves based on the pipe size

Trench templates are used on pipes for fill quantities. It would be useful if you could place a trench that would automatically assign parametric constraints based on the size and pipe thickness of the pipes. Also, shapes other than a circle are d...
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Snapping to arc/spiral end in profile

I would highly recommend to let user to snap to arc or spiral end in profile design. As you can see in the attached video I can't find intersection between profile alignment and vertical line that indicates arc/spiral end. To find intersection b...
over 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to append, join, or combine individual alignments and have it hold the sub alignment stationing, which would create station equations

In Geopak, we had the ability to take individual alignments and create an overall alignment from a subset of alignments and it would hold the individual stationing for each alignment, creating station equations. There is no way to do this in ORD u...
almost 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration