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Need to annotate partial alignment lengths along turnout from point of switch to start/end

Users need a way to annotate the same way SS2 would annotate with the Switch Height Plan command. Partial lengths along the alignment need to be annotated, but there is not a way to do this in OpenRail. The workaround is to create a dummy alignmen...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

Dgnlib standards units

Currently the advanced design file units in the dgnlib are controlling the units displayed in dialogs. This leads to separated Survey Foot vs International Foot vs Metric workspace dgnlibs. They do not adhere to the MicroStation working units like...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Add superelevation tracking

add civil analysis, or tracking to superelevation lane, so we could know what is the superelevation when in transition.
over 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 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...
9 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Local edits to a template, now out of sync with library.

It would be nice to see what local changes were made, to a template, before Sync'ing to library. It currently notifies user that there changes made, but doesn't show what those changes are. It is difficult to know what changes may have been made t...
9 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Import profile from element

We should be able to import profiles from elements. Because the profile drawing gives us usually like dwg file format, or like cad file format. if we draw an empty profile same dwg's profile scale on the screen, we can import dwg profiles very eas...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Element Annotation - Add view horizontal

Add in the ability place element annotation at view horizontal
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Civil Labeler - add ability to use from explorer

Civil Labeler is powerful, but the labeler menu is super annoying (table tree defaults to closed). Just like civil cells can be added through explorer, it seems like civil labeler could be done the same way
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Element Annotation - include "secondary" in addition to "override"

Most alignments we use have 2 defaults or less - having to hunt and peck through the override tree is time consuming
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add By Linear Element option to Analyze Catchment (by Terrain Model) tool

Be able to select a linear element (eg. edge of road pavement) that the Analyze Catchment tool computes catchment areas from a terrain model for. The tool currently only has a Use Fence option which can still take a long time. If one can narrow it...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration