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Cant value in cross sections

Plese copy tool "Place cell/ block" from Bentley Rail Track SS2 to Open Rail to have possibility annotate cant on cross sections. Many Thanks in advance.
18 days ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Cant creation default

Please consider on cant creation using a default of zero for all cant levels. he cant it automates is never correct and a zero default is a better base for me to start my cant input from calcs. If you are going to automated values they should be i...
27 days ago in OpenRail Designer / Superelevation 0 Needs review

Copy an alignments from file to file with H+V+Cant+Turnout

Actually H+V+Cant can be only achieved through XML export/import.Turnouts are lost. It could help and simplify to have a command to copy an alignment from a file to another. Similary than what is happening when creating a civil cell, it would be g...
29 days ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Annotate element item type on cross sections and profiles

I want to be able to annotate the element item type properties attached to linear features displayed on cross sections and profiles using annotation groups. Currently any text favorites created from item types do not resolve to show the item type ...
2 months ago in Annotation / Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Multiple Vehicle Cross-Section Outlines

Unlike BRT, ORD does not allow defining different cross-section outlines for the front, middle, and rear of a vehicle. This capability is critical for accurate clearance assessments, especially for vehicles with varying geometry (e.g., tapered cab...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Inside Rail Pivot for Swept Envelope

In railway design, the standard practice is to pivot at the inside (low) rail when applying cant and generating swept envelopes. Currently, OpenRail Designer does not provide an option for this; users must create complex templates with point contr...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Multiple alignment options

OpenRail now looks like it is behind the 12D Model, after removing good design functions in BRT. In OpenRail, it is hard to have multiple alignment options. For example, you can copy a horizontal design, it will carry a profile, but not cant desig...
4 months ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Tool to detect corrupt preference file

In ORD especially in Drainage and Utilities, corrupt preferences lead to inconsistent results. There is currently no way to detect a corrupt preference file so that it can be removed until a user notices a error in the design which is usually too ...
4 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Possibility to add/remove/change long sleepers sets

Possibility to add/remove/change length of long sleepers sets in turnouts that are placed in a geometry. When you are working with existing geometry and there are turnouts with too long sleepers sets or if you by mistake place a turnout that has a...
4 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Sheet presentation of Drainage and Utilities nodes in plan view with annotation cells

When we initially stood up Storm and Sanitary, we had the center point presentation in plan view display a representative cell. I propose that we allow the placement through an element template of an annotative cell at the center of nodes to repre...
4 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Needs review