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Add Highlight tool in OpenRoads & OpenRail Designer

In OpenTunnel Designer there's "Highlight" & "Clear Highlight" tool in explorer panel which helps us to highlight any particular element in a huge dgn without turning off display levels of other elements. Please bring this to other civil produ...
9 months ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Horizontal Slew On longsection

This tool currently only works on regression geometry. Sometimes I find myself needing to mix regression and standard geometry. once o make these complex the slews do not show on the long section and i find myself manually typing them in from the ...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow superelevation lanes to follow a separate control line

In the old Geopak we could create superelevation shapes to follow a profile grade line (we called this a "PGL Chain". In locations where the lanes transition offset, this helped us to see that the lanes transitioned offset while still following st...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration

Enhance Design Standards to flag gaps in Geometry & apply to Feature Definitions

Additional functionality is needed for Design Standards to be fully functional for project delivery. Some additional thins include: Allow Design Standards to be optionally assigned to Alignment Feature Definitions so Alignments are created with th...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Text Along Element for all text element types

The text-along element already exist as a microstation tool, It would be nice if that tool would be able to be used in all civil label options.
9 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to automatically generate 3d linear features/Linestrings from OBM elements

Generation of 2d decorations and solids are insufficient for full coordination with road geometry teams and they regularly need to provide 3d linestring geometry as part of the roadway design for bridge barriers, wingwall edges for earthworks, etc...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Needs review

Please fix the Standards in OpenRoads Designer Connect Edition to not copy to the individual dgn files in the project.

On very large projects with hundreds of people working on the project and you need to change a standard you should not have to go thru all of the dgns in the project to update or purge old standards. Most of the time the standards evolve as the pr...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / Workspace 3 Already exists

Check for unused/orphaned templates

As a project progresses templates can be created that are no longer needed. Currently I need to manually make a list of templates that are used in the model, then go back to the template library and remove unused templates. I'd like to see a tool ...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 3 Will not implement

Placing Multiple Note Labels at Once

I am manually annotating cross sections (~90 total) due to the drawing model annotation tool not working properly. Therefore this idea came about after frequently using the "Note>Place Label" tool and these two feature names: XS Offset & XS...
9 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

feature definition - browser all element that used a specific feature definition

Get a list of elements using a specific feature definition. Similar to level usage. This "select by graphic filter" filter only feature type that compose a terrain model.
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 5 Already exists