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Add an option to include "Profile" when offsetting Geometry

There should be an option to include the Profile when offsetting geometry if desired. Currently we need to offset the geometry and then copy the profile. It would be much more intuitive if there was an option to just include the profile when initi...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Turnout Creation Wizard

Developing turnouts in the new software can be quite cumbersome. If there was a wizard that allowed users to input known common pieces of geometry in a more descriptive and graphical fashion, it would help significantly. When geometry elements are...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 3 Future consideration

Profile Symbology Setting

Currently OpenRail does not have the ability to assign profile symboligies for Turnouts with the Turnout Feature Definition.
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Future consideration

Tangent Profile Line from Element tangent point handle in ORD 10.10 - 23.xx

Request to bring back the tangent point handle when using the Tanget Profile Line from Element tool as described in the forum link below. SS10 had this ability and no longer found in ORD 10.10 through 23.00.xx https://bentleysystems.service-now.co...
7 months ago in Geometry / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Profile by Best Fit > Convert to Profile Rule requires ability to set vertical curve type

Create a best fit vertical profile and then convert to a Profile Rule. It only creates parabolas ... we need the ability to create a circular vertical curve. The profile by Best Fit command may only utilize parabolas, but they ONLY work with circu...
4 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Lock stationing to an XY coordinate.

As an MX user, we had the ability to lock stationing to an xy coordinate in an alignment. Please add this ability in ORD. An example use would be as follows: the user has a complex horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, and wants to append a ta...
4 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to Separate Tangents / Gradients from Adjacent Tangents / Gradients after Alignment Simplification

When making alignment modifications by manipulating tangents (Horizontal Alignments) or gradients (Vertical Alignment) we prefer to limit extents of changes to only one tangent / gradient at a time. This is possible, when alignments are built with...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Drop Complex Status alignment but keep FD

When editing vertical alignments. When I want to edit a complex vertical alignment by adding or removing elements I usually use Drop Complex Status because I find it easier to edit those single elements than edit apart and then use Complex Redefin...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Make profile active without opening profile view

It would be useful if some of the profile tools (quick profile from surface, profile from surface, etc) had a toggle to allow the profile to be set as active when it is created. This would make it more efficient in cases like when you need to crea...
about 1 year ago in Geometry 1 Future consideration

Have a rules explorer, per item or files

How to know what rules are on a specific element. we can have rules per terrain, corridor, alignement in plan and profiles but there is no way to know what rules are associated within a particular element.
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration