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Quantities of civil elements by named boundary

Long linear elements such as pavement marking and guardrail can be reported on by named boundaries if they are clipped according to the named boundary group. Summary of quantities on plans are often tabulated by sheet. The best methodology for thi...
2 days ago in OpenRoads Designer / Reports Future consideration

Area Reports for Height Range and Gradient Range

We would like to calculate and report area and volume in each height and gradient ranges. Any functions to report this? Or the only method is to create delta surface and analyze in excel and plot again on graph? Or is there any method to extract b...
3 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain Future consideration

Cross Section drawing/sheet models should honor level On/Off from 3D models without refresh

Summary: When users turn levels off in the Default 3D models, that display state does not carry into cross section drawing/sheet models without opening them more than once. This creates unexpected sheet output where items that are intentionally hi...
about 1 month ago in Drawing Production / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration
720 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...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration

Ability to add lines and points to drainage cells (2D/3D)

Revised Justification for DU Cell Enhancements If Drainage and Utility (DU) cells could incorporate linear and point features, these elements could be utilized as break lines within graphical filters for terrain modeling. Additionally, such featur...
about 2 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Horizontal Range Option for Loop Alignment Modeling Controls

When modeling a loop ramp (or any situation where the alignment doubles back on itself) point controls and target aliases have a tendency to find solutions that are technically correct across the infield but that are not the intended solution. For...
25 days ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Modify Civil Label Settings After Placement

I am looking for a tool to modify the label settings after a civil label has been placed. In SS10, we had plan view labeler which could choose your style, delineator, and leader before placing and then after it has been placed it there was an edit...
3 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Show Slopes in Properties

Request to add the slope of an element in the properties tab. Why is it useful? Allows designers to check slopes at a glance without using dimensioning tools. Slope in relation to the global origin would be helpful for typical sections. However, i...
2 months ago in Item Types / OpenBridge Designer / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenTunnel Designer Future consideration
137 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 ...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration

Toggle On/Off Fields Civil Analyze Point Copy to Clipboard

Copy to Clipboard from Analyze Point is incredibly useful, but it would be nice to be able to toggle which data fields were copied to improve workflows from OpenRoads to other programs. For example, toggling off everything except for station and o...
10 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface Future consideration