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Utility Overhead Conduits/Nodes

Current Limitations Currently, creating overhead conductors between two "Overhead Nodes" (e.g., utility poles) results in a straight-line conduit. In reality, these lines always exhibit a natural sag due to gravity and tension forces. To model sag...
23 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Profile Run tool feature definition setting ought to re-symbolize drainage objects in profiles

At present, when selecting a feature definition for a profile run, it only affects the construction element created immediately after defining the profile run. It would make sense to have a setting where the feature definition of the profile run o...
4 months ago in Drainage and Utilities 0 Future consideration

Separate SUDA Seed and Feature Def DGNLIB

In the current software version it is necessary to have hydraulic prototypes, catalogs, ect. in the same dgnlib as any SUDA/SUE feature definitions. This is due to how prototypes and such are managed within the software. In the workspace/workset c...
6 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Drainage Annotation - Anchor to top of grate elevation

Currently, the only datum for drainage annotations is set for invert. Some municipalities require annotation to be placed at grate elevation.
6 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add ability to set default Engineering Libraries for all users

As it stands, I can make a new Engineering Library on a network drive to share with other users, but if I wanted to make that library the "default", I can't without having to make the change for each individual user.
11 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Maintain Item Types when extracting drainage or utility model from survey graphics.

When using "Extract From Graphic" tool to create a drainage or utility model object, the extraction process fails to bring the Item Type from the source object (in this example a surveyed gas line), leading the user to reattach the Item Type to th...
11 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / Item Types / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Make Grips Visible and Useable on 4k displays

When using Grips for Structures and Pipes - the grip blends too much into the background color, and on a 4K screen is TINY. The pipe grip is annoying to select (it only appears when I select the centerline of the pipe) but when adjusting or swapin...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Add report for information about pipe bends

Kindly add a non-graphical way of identifying whether a pipe contains bends or not and information about the coordinates. The report is required to produce pipe setting out schedules and share the coordinates with the contractor. It would be...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

limit the number of Rows in the Elevation-Area Table.

I get close to 40-50 rows of data when I assign a "pond" to a terrian. I only need data every 0.1ft but it is providing much more.
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities 0 Future consideration

Visualization of Flood Fill based on min and max height values

A function of flood fill a portion of the terrain based on a min height and max height value. It allows a drainage engineer to visually check if a certain flood top water level will flow beyond the project boundary. Is there a way to do this in Op...
almost 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration