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Annotate the flow direction of a ditch in cross section drawing model.

Ability to annotate the flow direction of a ditch using an annotation group within a cross section drawing model. Currently the annotation exists only for plan view (See communities post here ). In Geopak we had a workflow to accomplish this task,...
13 days ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 4 Future consideration

Text Favorites for Start/End Station and Start/End Offsets of Plan and Profile Lines

When working with plan elements or profile elements, I often find myself needing to find the Start Station and End Station of a line element or a profile element. A text favorite would be useful for placing text for this information as annotation,...
16 days ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Civil Labeler - Add capability to incorporate cells alongside text favorites

We have several annotations that require a combination of cell and civil element data. I've attached 2 examples where we have a need to combine cell with text favorite data. While the text favorite can be added within the cell itself, there are ti...
29 days ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Trailing Zeros Setting to Point Station

Need the ability to hide ".00" decimal for stationing using the trailing zeros setting. For example, station 100+00.00 would label 100+00. This is available for point offset and I've attached a screenshot of the settings needed.
about 1 month ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Turnout annotation error with restart the file

To create a turnout annotation, we need a text favorite with a description and the name of the turnout. In text favorite we have in the Feature tab Feature definition and Feature Name, which pull names from the properties of the turnout. After ann...
about 1 month ago in Annotation 0

We need the ability to label the start and stop stations of a profile drawing model after the model is created.

Currently, the start and stop station text favorite values only exist at creation and are persisted to the drawing model. Therefore, they are not available after the drawing models are created.
about 2 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

3D text

In both OpenRoads and OpenRail ConceptStation it would be very helpful to be able to add 3D text above tracks, roads and other objects for easier orientation when reviewing the model with project members.
2 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail ConceptStation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads ConceptStation / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow the use of equations when creating civil labels

We would like to be able to create a civil label that labels the elevation of a terrain model. We would like this label to include both a top of curb elevation and automatically do the math to subtract a set distance from that elevation so that it...
3 months ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 0 Future consideration

Remove trailing zeros

Whether or not it was a setting, pre-2023 SignCAD could suppress trailing zeroes for integer and terminating decimal measurements even if decimal places were specified. In 2023 it seems to be an all-or-nothing proposition that leads to dimension o...
5 months ago in Annotation / Signs 0 Future consideration

Arc Direction Labels Variable

A configuration variable for the arc hand direction label to change the "CCW" or "CW" definition to a new value like "LT" or "RT"? We would prefer to have this dynamic for the text favorite. If a user was to label with the civil labeler they would...
about 1 year ago in Annotation 0 Future consideration