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Replacing the end element(s) of a complex element

There should be tools to allow the end elements in a complex element to be replaced by the designer. The Redefine tool can be fine for elements in the middle and the append tool may be fine for just adding but if I want, for example, to swap the l...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 15 Already exists

Vertical curve from element with outgoing slope

When creating vertical curves "from element" it would be really useful to be able to set the outgoing slope (I have not been successful using "civil accudraw" for this purpose...).
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Filter Features by Name

The graphical filter is limited to feature element symbology and feature definition. Multiple, redundant, feature definitions must be created in order to import features to multiple surfaces. The feature names, assigned in the template, can be use...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Target Alias Sort by Name

Suggesting to sort the Target Alias list by name and increase the width so long concatenated names can be fully read.
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Wild card for Attribute Name in Text Favorite

Some survey software put out attribute names that include the code (e.g. Note_CURB, Note_Pole). It would be highly beneficial to have the ability to use a wild card when calling out the attribute name in a text favorite (e.g. NOTE*).
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Remove 2gb limit when creating Terrains from PointClouds

When creating a terrain from PointClouds, an intermediate XYZ file is created of the extracted PointCloud points before the filter option is applied. While a very large XYZ file can be created quite quickly (current dataset has created 10gb+ XYZ f...
almost 2 years ago in Terrain 2 Future consideration

Folders for Cant Tables

In order to use Cant Tables, a significant number of Cant Tables need to be created. As such, the ability to organize the tables into folders within the DGNLIB is needed.
about 2 years ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Define Template Library Name and Location from Workset creation

Add capability to define Template Libray's Name and Location through Workset creation. See attached image. This information could be populate Workset.cfg file.
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Existing terrain element concept and modifiers

Vectorworks Landscape, Revit 2024 or Virtual Surveyor (a drone photogrammetry software) treat existing terrain in a extremely effective way, but all of them lack the volumes and tools from OpenRoads. What they do is genarating a solid from the exi...
11 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Export DWG special mode for sheets and deliverables

ArchiCAD, Sketchup and Revit have a very nice workflow for creating DWG deliverables. Basically, the software merge all the viewports in the model like an array and then creates a viewport of each in the sheet. They also dumb down all the smart ci...
11 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration