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Add custom line style automation for pipes in Drainage & Utilities

There is currently no way to utilize multiple custom line styles (or element templates) for pipes in plan view for Drainage and Utilities so that they are tied to the drainage property and will update to the correct line style if the pipe size cha...
almost 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Shipped

Trim with Connection Points/Regions on opposite sides of cell

I would like to have the ability to put connection regions and connection points on opposite ends of cells, specifically aprons. Currently, the apron won't trim with this setup.
almost 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Shipped

Update/Modify Profile Run

Named boundary and respective cut-sheet is based on the profile Run Alignment. In further submittal there might be a change (about 25-30%) in the Profile Run of respective system. If we delete the run the named boundary and cut-sheet will lose the...
about 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Shipped

Oklahoma Time of Concentration Formula

Currently ORD does not have an option to calculate Time of Concentration for the channel flow that the state of Oklahoma uses. This eliminates the option to use the programmed Tc calculator for channel flow. I need an option to put in my own formu...
about 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 7 Shipped

Civil Expression Support for Links / Nodes

Add support for attaching station /offset for Links and Nodes "Set Out" points on. Currently Nodes only report the origin of the cell - which there is a bug in 10.11 version, but we need to also get the center point for eccentric structures. Start...
about 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities 6 Shipped

Update Extract from Graphic Order of Settings

In the Extract from Graphic tool, the conduit feature definition needs to be set prior to the node feature definition to pull the appropriate corresponding nodes from the workspace. Could the conduit feature definition settings be listed above the...
over 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Shipped

Add shear stress calculation (based on HEC-15) to conduit data.

Conduit data has flow data but not shear force data which would help design the channel lining needed to protect from ditch/channel erosion. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/hydraulics/pubs/05114/05114.pdf
over 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Shipped

Add a toggle to make a Drainage network Active or Inactive

We have an "Is Active" property for all drainage elements. Elements that have this property set to false are ignored by the hydraulics engine. This makes it easy to focus on a single network if your design file contains more than one, because you ...
over 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Shipped

Automatically invoke a selected OpenFlows License when the Civil Product starts

Invoking a different OpenFlows licence for H&H calculations (e.g. StormCAD Unlimited) has to be done every time you start a session of the product (e.g. OpenRoads Designer). This takes a little while to process, and it's frustrating to keep ha...
over 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Shipped

Need an "Update" tool to update Drainage Catalogs, Prototypes, and Engineering Libraries from another file

We need a better way to update a working DGN with changed or added Drainage content from the DGNLib. It is possible to export and import library XML files, but you'd need to know which libraries have been changed. There's no XML file for prototype...
over 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Shipped