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Control how Explorer sorts items

It would be really nice if we could organize items in the explorer by differently than it does by default. Adding the ability to control how the Explorer sorts items, whether it's something typical like alphabetically by name or something differen...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 3 Future consideration

Allow the road slope to exceed the gutter cross slope

My state agency commonly uses gutters with a 4% cross slope. The maximum superelevation rate is 7%. The gutter slope stays at 4% in this situation. Spread does not compute in this scenario because "A depressed gutter must have a Gutter Cross Slope...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Planned

Need Named Boundaries or Multi-Point Cross Sections that can turn for secondary alignments

Currently, when secondary alignments are used, the cross sections are always based perpendicular to the primary alignment. We need the ability for named boundaries (or some other means of creating multi-point cross sections) to understand when sec...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 4 Future consideration

Annotate Cross Section Locations In Plan

We often want to show the location of cross section in plan which can be done using the named Boundary Lines but they need to be annotated so you know what each represents e.g. stations/chainages or section names such as letters etc. There is a wo...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 6 Future consideration

Annotate Rock and Undercut in XS

When you create earthwork, there is a way to create an additional quantities for rock excavation and unsuitable material. We are wanting to be able to run the earthwork EAV report to have those quantities in EAV format, and then be able to annotat...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

ROW Workflow - Functionality in Connect equivalent to Geopak COGO input files

In order to comply with the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions "Minimum Standards", the Kansas Department of Transportation is asking for an enhancement to OpenSite Designer CONNECT Edition software for Right of Way workflows as follows: ...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 6 Future consideration

Disable Point Controls Rather than Delete When Control Can't Be Found

Currently when the control - profile, alignment, feature - can't be found due to a deletion or reference detachment, the corresponding point control(s) is removed from the corridor. Considering that these events may occur inadvertently and not dis...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Auto-rotate Annotation and Labels

Suggestion to allow annotation and labels to align with plan named boundaries and sheet file plan views. For example, consider a plan named boundaries shape around a horizontal curve. If you have a separate standalone annotation file, often times,...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Driveway Profile Sheet Creation Tool

For our DOT, we need to show profiles for driveways. Since they are not large, it is expected to have 4 or more to a single sheet. In the current workflow, creating the drawing models and moving the drawing models to sheets to make this work is ti...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Import .xtr files without losing any data

We receive the rail alignment in the form of a .xtr file. In the file itself it is possible to see that there is station, cant, construction and destruction phase, and turnout information, yet when I import it in OpenRail Designer only the alignem...
about 2 years ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer 7 Planned