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Reference Terrain model on Civil Cell

I would like to create civil cells that utilize our existing ground terrain model from the survey. Right now, when creating the civil cell, I can't select the existing ground terrain model as a reference. This is problematic as some of the element...
12 months ago in Modeling / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add Picklist for Alignments for Station/Offset Expressions

Need the ability to pick alignments that are in the file or referenced in the file when using the new station and offset item type expressions. Manually typing them in is currently the only option. The attached screen shot shows where this would b...
about 2 years ago in Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Need a Text Favorite for Arc Chord Bearing

IDOT's Right-of-Way annotation requires the Chord Bearing as part of the annotation. When setting up annotations for the Civil Labeler, we found that an option for the chord bearing is currently not available as a Text Favorite when selecting Civi...
about 1 month ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 1 Already exists

We need a SINGLE LIST of configuration variables that can be filtered by ALL products and generation

It would be nice if there was a single list of configuration variables so that we don't have to hunt in different product Help documents (microstation vs openroads) to find details of how they are used. Furthermore there seems to be a lot of confi...
over 1 year ago in Help and Documentation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / Workspace 1 Future consideration

Make editing catchment areas more user friendly

When you initially create a drainage area from a shape, it creates 'smart' vertices that you can grab and move with the cursor. However, after the initial catchment shape is created, the only way to add additional vertices is using the "Insert Ver...
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Planned

Ability to make Geometry Profile models indexed DGN models for ease of use & design workflows

Similar to all the other models, we regularly want to go in and out of Alignment Profile models and the current methods of having to navigate to the geometry to access it is very disruptive and inefficient. Also, having these as hidden models limi...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Ability to add marks for the lowest points along ditches in plan

Ability to add marks for the lowest points along ditches in plan. Currently we can only annotate flow arrows. It can also work as vertical change in plan for ditch profiles.
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Ability for Superelevation Lanes to use Crossfall between Linear Features to define superelevation

In many circumstances superelevation cannot be easily defined by superelevation points, i.e. tie-ins to existing crossfall, extension of adjacent carriageway crossfalls, eg. ramps, intersections, etc. In these circumstances users need to use linea...
about 2 years ago in OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration

Host Federal and State MUTCD standard SignCAD template files in a centralized cloud repository

Historically, SignCAD has delivered Federal and State MUTCD standard sign template libraries with each release. Internally we host our state's standard sign template files on a network server location for downstream consumption; however, our consu...
over 1 year ago in OpenRoads SignCAD / Signs 0 Planned

Add Relationship Tree View to simplify understanding why circular references happen

Given that ORD is capable of recognising when it is creating a circular relationship reference, it would be very useful to have something like a geometry relationships "tree" we can view to understand the links between elements which would immense...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration