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Functionality Needed for Plotting Crossing Elements on long Profiles

User need functionality added back into OpenRoads that allows for crossing drainage, utilities, structures and roadways to be displayed on profiles. User know that 3D cuts are the recommended workflow for this, but they do not work when you have a...
10 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Surface Template better UI

After creation, no 2D handle is created or anything similar. It can only be selected/edited through the 3D model. This tool is amazing, but it is in dire need of some major improvements.
11 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Terrain substitute tool

"Terrain Substitute” command that would swap all links from one Terrain to another, and also swap Parent Terrains for Surface Templates ( without breaking rules/relationships).
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Direct Export Style from ORD - CSV for Survey

A new export style for exporting a file directly into Excel/Data collector from ORD needs to be created. The format would need to be a P,N,E,Z,D, Note export style. The File should be exported out of ORD in the same format that the CSV was brought...
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 2 Future consideration

Surface Template - "Process Corridor" similar tool

Just add the function to process the template again so it can be updated. This is a major issue when using surface templates with clipping boundaries. If I change the clipping boundary (a simple shape on the 2D model), I have to delete and reapply...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Automate the creation of plan-plan sheets with different views of the same station range.

We often do sheets where the same station range is shown, plan on top and bottom, but they have different information. For instance, the top plan view might be a staking overview where the bottom plan might be a jointing diagram. Both have the sam...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 6 Future consideration

Ability to define non-uniform cross section named boundaries

The ability to define the location and width of cross section named boundaries that are not uniform along the length of the project. For example, regular sections might be 500 feet wide but some areas require wider sections for ramps, side roads, ...
about 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Add a new component point to place a template to reference "CALL" other templates.

A new component called "Reference Point" to use when creating more complex templates that can "Call" other templates from the library that also uses prefixes, etc...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Geometry Connector: automatically use turnout radius when connecting an arc to a turnout

When using Geometry Connector to connect turnouts, it is often that we must extend the last arc of the turnout. Because the arc is in the turnout we cannot extend it. Instead, we must add an arc of same radius. It would be nice that in such situat...
about 1 month ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Assign non-Active profile to bridge

Long alignments can oftentimes consist of multiple profiles that control along various segments of the alignment. Currently, only one "Active" profile can be assigned to an alignment. When creating multiple bridges along the same alignment, users ...
5 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration