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Viewing preview annotation in profile frame annotation setup

Currently, in the setting up of profile drawing annotation group, we have no visibility of what is being set up for the frame annotation. It does not provide a preview of the values and output that will be presented and that is challenging as we w...
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Annotate the Dynamic Cross Section View

As a Designer I want the ability to annotate point elevations and dimensions like we are able to in the drawing model cross-section so that checking the model during design before cutting sheets helps us.
4 months ago in Annotation / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Refresh or Update All Drawing Model Annotations

I would like a tool to 'refresh' or 'update' all drawing model annotations at once. Instead of having to 'Remove Drawing Model Annotations', then run the 'Annotate Drawing Model' command, I would like an option for the program to do this in a sing...
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Improve Civil Labeler so it doesn't leave little circles in the dgn

Currently, when labels are placed, small circle elements are added to the file. While these circles are necessary for maintaining the connection between the element and the label, they present several challenges: File Clutter: The addition of h...
4 months ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Automatic Dimension Masking

Need to have the ability for dimension lines that cross other dimension lines be automatically masked. This has traditionally been done by adjusting extension lines, but with associative dimensions, this is not feasible. The order of dimension pla...
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Setting Offsets in Profile Band

The labels for the ST, TS, CS, and SC points are in the lower part of the profile and are in offset with reference to the horizontal geometry band (as seen in the photo below wherein the radial offset is referenced from the geometry band). I think...
5 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Annotation Group for Profile Intersection

This will be useful to annotate automatically intersecting features like Roads, Utilities etc.
6 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Event Point modification

Would it be possible to add a graphical change button, similar to the one in the template library, to allow graphical modifications of the event points directly from the alignment? This would eliminate the need for the delete/create process. Addit...
6 months ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Enable 3D annotation from 2D annotation

It would be advantageous to be able to link 3D annotation to 2D annotation. In order to be able to create stationing as 3D text on an alignment in a 3D model, you currently need to do it manually. It would be desirable if you could link a 2D anno...
6 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Annotation at interval - Omit Start/Omit End

In annotation group we can manage annotation at interval (even of) and at points where we have POB/POE. But it is not possible to ignore point of start and/or Point of end when annotation at regular interval. We can skip some specific interval usi...
6 months ago in Annotation / Drawing Production 0 Future consideration