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Better Elevation Thematic Tool for terrains.

It's very hard and troublesome to create elevation countours for cut and fill or layer thickness. The legends values have to be updated by hand for each new terrain. And in the end, it`s actually just a Display Style applied to the terrain or the ...
11 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Support spaces for bearing input in geometry tools

The geometry tools should allow for spaces between degrees minutes and seconds (N78 34 22E). This format is supported in the Geometry Builder but not the other geometry tools and the inconsistence is frustrating. Currently you have to enter either...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Create KMZ files that allow geometry annotation on export.

This would allow annotation on Geometry to export to KMZ files. Currently you have to drop status on all text annotation on geometry to be able to see it in a KMZ file.
12 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Persist Snaps and Feature Definition Toggle Bar

We need a better way to control activation of the Persist Snaps functionality. Currently the Persist Snaps is always turned on by default when ORD is launched and also when switching to a different dgn. Persist Snaps is a very important functional...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Create Drawing Model Only from Plan and Profile Named Boundary

User request the ability to only create the drawing model and not the sheet model when running the Create Profile Drawing tool. SImilar to how the Cross Section one works. You have a toggle on the Create Cross Section dialog.
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Search bar for feature definitions

We would like to see a search bar or Filter for Feature Definitions. Our Featue Definitions are numbering in the hundreds if not thousands and as much as we try to organize it in a way that makes sense some are still hard to find.
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Need the ability to automatically update the "true" Best Match survey setting in older versions to the proper option in later versions.

In 10.11 R1, the Best Match Field Code survey setting option changed from a True/False option only to a more extensive dropdown list. However, when older survey files are upgraded, there is no way to control which best match option is to be used. ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Future consideration

OpenRoads SignCAD - More tool options in the Quick Access Toolbar

Currently the customization options for the Quick Access toolbar only allows for showing the Open, Save, Undo, and Redo tools. Having access to add other backstage and ribbon tools such as Print, Import, Export, etc. would be a much-needed quality...
7 months ago in OpenRoads SignCAD / User Interface 0 Future consideration

At Linear Template corner, give option for PI or radius

When creating a liner template in a 90° corner or similar, the software would create an external tanget drop and not a rounded or chamfer one. See image attached, red flags what the result I want.
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 7 Future consideration

Allow drainage nodes to show up as a cell (catch basin, headwall, end section) in profile view.

Drainage nodes show up in 2D as the cell/feature definition it is designated like an end section. It would be useful if that same feature would show up in the profile view for drainage profiles. It currently works for the "utilities" part of "Drai...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 4 Future consideration