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Adjust Sight Visibility Tool to local markets

Hi, We are struggling with sight visibiloty analysis, because currently available methods covers only some of regional standards, like for example Italian, Australian, French or AASHTO. Equation used for that strandards is probably hardcoded somew...
3 months ago in OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Trace Slope - Line Style - add direction

One issue I've found with the trace slope is that the direction is adjustable (can be down or up) and ORD isn't smart enough to change the direction of the line. This causes two issues: 1) One of your flow directions is going to be wrong, dependin...
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Use 3D Element Elevation when using Edit Terrain > Insert Vertex

When inserting a vertex on a terrain using the edit tools, the vertex is put at 0 elevation (if outside the terrain) and at the terrain elevation (if inside the terrain) even if you snap to a 3D element. The current workaround requires moving the ...
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Allow Terrain Filter by Civil Element Name

Terrain filters have the ability to use the Feature Definition, but a lot of the time we have elements that we do not want all elements of a feature definition to be captured by the terrain filter. Our current workaround is to have multiple versio...
11 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Add Import/Export Ability to Terrain Filters

When setting up terrain filters, there is a substantial amount of effort required in multiple dialog boxes. I had created a report for InRoads that created the XML codes needed for its Terrain Import tool's preferences using an XIN file as its sou...
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Have the Terrain>Add boundary> Extract Graphics command generate a shape and not a line

The command Terrain>Add boundary with Setting "Extract Graphics" generates a line string. It should be a closed entity (shape). usually these entity will will used as a clip/mask later one, and will need to be turned into a shape so why not gen...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 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, ...
29 days ago in Survey / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Need "Empty Terrain" option

Currently there isn't a way to view contents of a terrain. This makes it very difficult to replace or remove data. There is a remove feature tool but you have to know which features are in a terrain to remove them. I am proposing an empty terrain ...
6 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Flood Volumes - Surface analysis between three surfaces

It would be beneficial to have the ability to specify surface math logic - Above Existing, Below Proposed, and Below "Floodplain" (variable plane) to get good floodplain volumes.
6 months ago in Analytics / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Persist the Edit Complex Terrain Model dialog box

When editing a Complex Terrain Model, clicking Apply closes the dialog box. The user often wants to make additional edits to the Terrain Model. Allow the dialog box to persist until the user closes it.
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration