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OBM Place Bearing List Order Causing Item and Material Misclassification

The current order of OBM’s Place Bearing groups is creating significant confusion regarding which item group corresponds to the Bearing and Grout Pad/Bevel Plate. Because the group order changes depending on configuration, the same physical compon...
3 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler Planned

Need bent plate connection plates for diaphragm and cross frames.

OBM does not currently allow for bent connection plates for diaphragms / cross frames. We need that ability to cover bridges skewed between 20 and 45 degrees.
about 1 year ago in OpenBridge Modeler Planned

Field splice bolt material - material library location

Currently, the material options for the Bolt Material in the field splice library pulls from the Miscellaneous tab of the material library. It would be good if this pulled from the steel tab as that is where we put the steel bolt material pay items
26 days ago in OpenBridge Modeler Planned

Integration of OpenRoads Designer Civil Functions in Python

Add OpenRoads Designer Civil functions to Python integration allowing development of Python applications that can access/call the Civil Design processes within OpenRoads

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...
3 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler Future consideration

Load DGNLIB files on demand

It would be very helpful if it were possible to load DGNLIB files on demand instead of automatically. One example of this is Sheet Seed DGNLIB files. We do not need those unless we are creating sheets, and creating sheets is a very, very small por...

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...
7 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler Future consideration

Add option depth of the cut for profile view drawings

1)CS0179668 Currently when we do profile view drawings we are creating a section cut with depth zero using the alignment as reference. When we have curved bridge in plan or a even number of girders, the cut doesn't show the girders because they ar...
12 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler Future consideration

Give option to not annotate affix if a text favorite returns blank

When annotating elements using an affix (prefix or suffix) tied to a Text Favorite, OpenRoads currently annotates the affix even if the Text Favorite evaluates to a blank or null value. This results in: Stray symbols, separators, or units (e.g.,...

Ability to annotate models over a station range

Currently, the only way to update Annotation is to update ALL or one drawing model at a time. It would be very helpful to be able to select a station range to remove and then update in one action.
over 3 years ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration