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Adding Japanese Cubic Parabola

OpenRail Designer seems to have Japanese Sine spiral type added from the formula used in Power RailTrack. However, there seems to be nothing similar to Japanese Cubic Parabola, which is based on a different formula from Japanese Sine.
4 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Superelevation Frame Annotation Enhancements

Please consider the following enhancements for the profile frame annotation which is currently difficult to understand and lacks important functionality: Preview window should display an example superelevation diagram instead of remaining blank an...
7 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration

Add Dimension Tool

There needs to be a Dimension Tool for adding/seeing dimensions that are not already present on the outside dimensions. Example - Standard Highway Sign Guide (2012) - D2-2 - Spacing for L currently cannot be shown in the program.
about 1 year ago in OpenRoads SignCAD 0 Future consideration

GenerativeComponents - Feature Definition tool Node

Special Node/Option for Full recognition (reading civil information) and creation of Feature Definitions in GenerativeComponents. GC & Civil Packages would benefit greatly if we could automate the creation of Civil Lines (2D/3D) for subsequen...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 0 Future consideration

Remove "Apply Classifications to Library" button from Template Tools or make it more difficult to accidentally misclick.

The button as it functions now, is able to edit whole library with one click. One unnoticed misclick can lead to losing hours of work. Could this function be hidden a bit? Maybe under a separate menu "Edit library" or it could have a pop-up explai...
7 months ago in OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Implement a SWITCH/CASE function for item type expressions.

A SWITCH/CASE function would be easier to use than having to nest multiple IF functions.
over 1 year ago in Item Types / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Feature Lines Similar to Civil 3D

It would be nice to be able to graphically change elevation and slope of an element similar to feature lines in Civil 3D. Made it really quick to create break lines and grade areas without have to go into a profile view and create a vertical profi...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add option to create Mass Haul Diagram from End Area Volumes.

Currently the Mass Haul Diagram volumes are generated from 3D mesh volumes and the End Area Volumes report calculates the volumes from the cross section areas. Hence there is a difference between the Mass Ordinate values between the two reports. I...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add the ability in Civil Labeler to label the side without requiring an offset value.

I need some additional settings to label the side without a value so that I can annotate my plans as required. The text favorite settings for “OpenRoads Plan Annotation Fields-Point Offset” does have settings to use a suffix to label a “Right” or ...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Re-association of reference file bring back its intelligence

Needs an ability that if we re-associate any reference file back in our dgn, it should remember its previous relations made to that file. Example: We have a baseline referenced in a dgn and we have annotated its values, after de-attaching and re-a...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration