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Ability to Place a Conduit/Pipe "Without" a Node

Many times, we have conduits/pipes that simply daylight a surface and drain on to the ground or into a pond. Please add the ability to place conduit/pipes "Without" the need of a Node. I understand that we can create a sort of null point/node that...
10 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Vertical Alignment Editor

Geometry connector for verticals, missing vertical geometry editor is an issue for Ramboll and other similar consultancies in Denmark
about 2 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 2 Needs review

Turnout profile elevation in reports

We need the ability to get the profile elevation from the turnout points to the turnout report.
12 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

rotate cells placed by field book

We need to be able to manually rotate survey cells in a 3D file. Yes, I understand there are macros to automate this. But simply put, we should be able to use the microstation rotate command and have the cell respond.
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Survey 9 Needs review

Enhancement to Add a Selection Set Capability to the Graphics tool (Survey >> Field Book >> Import)

The Graphics tool (Survey >> Field Book >> Import) currently imports all the MicroStation features in the active .dgn to survey features. This idea is a request to enhance the Graphics tool (Survey >> Field Book >> Import) ...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

WS wind speeds table for FDOT Sdg 2.4 (and combinations) are not updated as per 2025

There appears to be a discrepancy in wind load calculations—specifically, the gust factor of 0.85 remains different from AASHTO standards. However, the FDOT Structures Design Guidelines (SDG) 2025 now allow the use of AASHTO Article 3.8, which may...
about 2 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Separate Limiting Tension Stress at the Top of Prestressed Concrete Girders Near Interior Supports

Add a separate limiting tension stress for the top of girders near interior supports. AASHTO LRFD permits the use of a limiting tension stress at the top of girders near interior supports for Service III different than the limiting tension stress ...
about 1 month ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Drainage Annotation rotation based on sheet view rotation

Currently, the only rotation options for drainage annotation is constant. With alignments that are curving, our sheets must change rotation. It would save a lot of time spent manually adjusting rotation on each sheet.
6 months ago in Annotation / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Needs review

Enhancement::Additional Tool for Design of Cross over connection between Tangent & Canted Tracks

I suggest improvements to Bentley OpenRail Designer for handling Cross over connections in the following scenarios: Cross over Between Adjacent Tangent Tracks: Enable a simple geometric connection between two parallel tracks without the use of Geo...
9 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Remove length restriction in offset geometry command

Please remove the restriction that makes it impossible to make the offsetted element longer than the base element. It is normally the direction that is important and the length can be edited afterwards. Otherwise add an opportunity to remove the r...
2 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review