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Bring back Active Chain Control or Similar Tool

In GeoPak, the Active Chain Control tool was very useful for selecting a particular chain or alignment and having the location information (station, offset, etc.) be display in a dialogue box. The location information would live track with the loc...
7 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 6 Already exists

Graphically edit the profile by variable slope

It would be good to have the option to drag the start and end stations of the profile by variable slope from element in the profile window. Similarly as the partial offset tool in plan. At the moment the user needs to update values in the properti...
7 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Retain item type on 3D cells exported from Points Feature Definition

If there is an item type attached to a Point Feature Definition, it is not retained when the Point is exported as a standard 3D MicroStation cell. The metadata is only retained to the 2d element, not the 3d. In the case of a mesh (from a component...
7 months ago in Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Automatically calculate values when inputting into property fields

When inputting numbers into property fields, ORD can automatically calculate them for you. Example: Survey field team shoots the top of casting elevation of a manhole at 500ft, then shoots again for a bottom invert of the manhole but only leaves a...
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

ModelBuilder Units

When stepping through model builder there is an option to set the units that are to be used in the design file; however, when the property is set in the field mappings, it does not automatically default to what was selected on a previous screen. T...
7 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Import Utilities using LandXML

There needs to be an option to import utilities from LandXML with the option to specify the import units. I have sewer information from a utility in LandXML format, but the units need to be set to US Survey Feet. Using the import from LandXML clas...
7 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Need the ability to define sequence number other than at the end of the filename

We have a standard naming convention that uses sequence numbers which are in the middle of the filenames. This has been our standard for over twenty years. Additionally, we require each sheet to be in a separate file for multiple flexibility and a...
8 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow entering a degree of curve (d 00^00'00") as the Radius of the Alignment Table Editor.

When creating curves, an ORD user is allowed to enter a degree of curve (d 00^00'00") as the Radius. Put the same functionality in the Alignment Table Editor.
8 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Coincident Sheets with Drawing Boundary

Please add the option to automatically assign coordinate systems to drawing and sheet models based on the design models and to place the sheets coincidently even when they contain drawing boundaries. Right now, we cannot create georeferenced pdfs ...
8 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Will not implement

Roadway lighting design

Using corridors, add event point templates which can report calculated light levels. Add tools allowing for statistical analysis of those points. Improve overall lighting layout capabilities to allow for arrays or periodic placement. Improve lumin...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration