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Enable a screen-pick option when entering XY coordinates within the Survey Details window

With Inroads Survey, whenever XYZ coordinates needed to be entered for a particular purpose, a screen-pick option was always available. (see attached image) This was extremely useful. However, with ORD, changing the XYZ coordinate of any points in...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Create multiple field books w/o terrain connecting

The ability to create multiple field books without the terrain connecting to each. This would be necessary when surveying multiple sites for one given road project. Currently, this is done by importing the data and then going to the survey setti...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Place Civil Cell on Referenced Survey Feature

I would like the ability to place a civil cell along a survey feature that is referenced. We use a simple civil cell and cross sections to help compute existing pavement cross slopes.
almost 2 years ago in OpenRoads Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Need a Terrain report in ORD having Root Mean Square Error in it same as the report by the "compare point to tin" tool in GEOPAK

User is wants the terrian report from native Geopak which gives Root Mean Square Error to be added to ORD. In Geopak there was a tool "compare point to tin" tool that provided a report. This report would provide the "Root Mean Square Error". In OR...
10 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports / Survey 0 Future consideration

Allow the Text Import Wizard to process Geopak Drainage survey source files without editing

In order to export drainage data, two items must be noted during the field collection. Each pipe must have a size and condition. These must be placed as the first characters in the description field separated by a space. If two different sizes are...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Allow assignment of VBA Macros by Feature Definition instead of by Alpha Code

In InRoads, multiple alpha codes assigned to a single Feature all shared the same custom codes and other survey settings. Having to duplicate any VBA Feature Macros to every alternative Alpha Codes complicates maintenance and is a source of uninte...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Ignore Specific Survey Observations

InRoads had the ability to ignore specific survey observations. If ORD had that same capability that would be fantastic.
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Add ability to match level when importing features from graphics

When I import features from graphics into a field book, the program does not set the correct level (match level) for most features. If we can get it to match the level correctly, it would save a lot of time. To take it a step further, it would be ...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Future consideration

Creating Generic Curb Offsets

I would like to create a generic curb for airborne lidar extraction with a 0.5 ft vertical offset from the gutter to the top of curb and then a 0.5 ft horizontal offset from the top of curb to the back of curb. I would want to collect the gutter a...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Ability to control segment length when triangulating.

We are currently not able to change segment length when triangulating surface. In SS2, you can define a segment length when triangulating a surface, but we cannot find this option in the OpenRoads application. There is a Survey stroking variable, ...
27 days ago in Survey / Terrain 0 Future consideration