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Geometric "intervals" (remove or hide)

When you are working with design you shouldn´t need to think about whether the elements you see on the screen are "real elements" or "intervals" - and it´s not so easy for the user to control if the program creates one or the other when you work. ...
3 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Remove length restriction in offset geometry command

Please remove the restriction that makes it impossible to make the offsetted element longer than the base element. It is normally the direction that is important and the length can be edited afterwards. Otherwise add an opportunity to remove the r...
3 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

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...
almost 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Planned

Allow flow arrow density adjustment similar to contour lines

All the current products anchor their surface data in triangles, and allow different types of visualizations to happen. For instance, you can choose to show major and minor contours as needed, and they do not change the way the triangles actually ...
6 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Edit Civil Labels

It is cumbersome to delete Civil Labels and place new ones when a simple change is required. Similar to how Geopak Plan View Labeler worked, it would be ideal if you could edit a previously placed Civil Label. Also being able to match a Civil Labe...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Productivity enhancements to Corridor Objects dialog

There are currently some things needed to be added to the Corridor Object dialog to help communicate design intent a bit better to users (especially with Parametric Constraints): The lack of information as to the rules linked to Parametric Constra...
almost 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Use Cells for creation of sleepers

Support use of cell definitions for sleeper placements. Long sleeper sets placed at turnout locations, have variable width so these will still be using existing box shaped sleepers but normal sleepers will be using the cell based definitions. This...
almost 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Group Annotations into One Annotation Group Together.

This is a request to enhance the annotation groups. Can there be a toggle in the annotation group to have the ability to group the different annotation definitions together. For example, we have lots of annotation groups that have multiple text fa...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Connect a channel directly to an On Grade Inlet

It would be great if ORD had the capability to connect a channel directly to an On Grade Inlet to be able to calculate spread and bypass at the inlet. Currently the workaround is to connect the channel to a Generic Outfall at the edge of the inlet...
6 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Copy multiple vertical elements

There's no option for copying multiple vertical elements - you can choose only one. My idea is to make the tool "Copy Vertical" similar to its equivalent in horizontal ("Copy Element") which allows to copy multiple elements.
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration