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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...
3 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Incorporate cells to place note tool

The place label tool already has this functionality but once you place the label it's fixed and can't be adjusted. Please add the cell functionality to the place note tool to create labels for signs. Would be extremely useful. Also the place label...
1 day ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

GEOPAK Drainage gave you inlet calcs after you placed an inlet and assigned a catchment without having to run a scenario. We need this functionality in ORD

In Geopak Drainage, once you place a node and attached a catchment, you were able to see inlet calculations. This let the user know if they needed to shift the box to have an allowable spread. It would be great if we could get that feedback withou...
1 day ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Need to be able to read the GEOPAK Drainage binary file and export to a spreadsheet – without having GEOPAK installed or running

Geopak is no longer supported by Bentley. At some point, Geopak will not be installed on our machines, but we may need to get the calculations that reside in the GDF file. We need a method that will allow us to extract the information we need from...
1 day ago in Drainage and Utilities / Import/Export / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration
651 VOTE

Enhancing Named Boundaries: Updating Named Boundaries and Applying Geometry Rules

To enhance productivity and efficiency in live projects, we need dynamic Named Boundaries linked to Geometry. This includes the ability to update the shape or location of a named boundary after creating a sheet model, with the changes reflected in...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 12 Future consideration

A way to manage multiple project ITL files

I'm not sure how best to implement it, but it's not uncommon to have multiple people working on a project with multiple corridor files. Having just one itl for the project would cause a lot of conflict and possible erros so multiple itl files are ...
3 days ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Deed Writer – Allow Single Line to Define Right of Way Boundary

In the Deed Writer tool (accessed via Geometry > Reports > Deed Writer), after selecting the reference alignment, the next step prompts the user to identify the Right of Way boundary. Currently, the tool only accepts closed shapes for this b...
10 days ago in OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to Expression Builder

Interface Currently, writing expressions in expression builder is only slightly better than writing code in notepad. The interface could be enhanced similar to Visual Studio with colorized classes, methods, and properties, colorized brackets with ...
132 VOTE

Add more Display Options for Placing Terrain Slope Labels at a Single Point on a Terrain

Currently, the only way to place a single point slope label on a terrain is using the "Analyze Point" tool which works ok, but there are no options at all for controlling the display of the label placed. We would like to have the ability to place ...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Named Boundary Creation - Option to Not Use Saved Views!

When creating named boundaries of any time, a saved view is created for each named boundary. The creation of a saved view is a method that is supposed to control the look and feel of the drawing/sheet, but it is over-complicated, poorly understood...
about 2 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration