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3D sign capability

Provide ability to place a 3D sign panel in a design model with the size and design from the sgn file. Transoft's Guidesign program has this ability as an example.
about 3 years ago in Import/Export / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenRoads SignCAD / Signs 0 Future consideration

Apply Z (elevation) corrections fro residual surface to existing elements without changing X,Y

OpenRoads Designer currently lacks a workflow to apply spatially varying Z corrections derived from a mesh to existing geometry, while preserving the X and Y coordinates. This is helpful for situations like in point‑cloud‑driven workflows, users f...
5 months ago in OpenRoads Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Point on Tangent Annotation Group

This is an enhancement request to recognize that POT's are different from PI's. Presently ORD can not distinguish between the 2 different types of points. We want to use separate labels, "PI" and "POT". Our enhancement request is to distinguish be...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Settings from Design Model should sync all 8 views in the view group

The saved view reference setting "Settings from Design Model" synchronizes the level display (and other settings) from view 1 in the reference file to ALL views in the master file. One efficient method of producing plans is to have a different lev...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 3 Future consideration

Show Connected Conduits in Profile

The ability to show the cross-pipes in profile runs right now is by default a user preference. It would be nice if this could just be a standard function or at least set to "True" as a default to be turned off if desired.
over 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities 0 Future consideration

OpenRoads SignCAD Export to DGN - Customizable Settings

Currently, the OpenRoads SignCAD Export to DGN tool lacks the granular control over import settings (e.g., Sign Panel level, Sign Scale, Dimension Font, etc.) available in the SignCAD to DGN application that operates within an active session of Mi...
over 1 year ago in OpenRoads SignCAD 1 Future consideration

Horizontal Geometry tool similar to the Site Layout

Site Layout has two geometry elements really easy to use: the polygon and the drivepath. I want them to be on the horizontal geometry tab in a simplified way, with no site layout objects options (side, slopes, max elev, ...). Just the geometry and...
about 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

IFC Project-Level Properties

Description: This idea arises from the growing need to comply with BIM requirements established by the Spanish rail administration, which mandate the delivery of structured IFC files. These IFC models must include specific properties (Psets) not o...
5 months ago in Import/Export / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

DU: Node inventory report

Report tool to quickly generate a table similar to the conduit inventory, but for nodes feature types.
about 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Already exists

Template Switches and Triggers Built Into Corridor Rather Than Templates

Using display rules can be very difficult when you have nearly identical components on top of one another. We've all tried to eliminate this difficulty by using a ton of different templates, but that can be even worse when conditions keep changing...
over 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration