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Improvement of the "Geometry Connector" to simplify for the user

Suggested improvements: Automatically fill in the correct radius of transition curves/clothoids. Make an option somewhere (civil design file settings?) to select if you want to give transition curve values "by length" or "by constant". If you choo...
about 2 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Civil view Settings (Drainage and utilities) in Personal Preference

Have the Civil preference for drainage and utilities as file setting rather than personal preference. There are times we had to change the settings depends on what we are designing. eg. we want to show connecting conduit if we do drainage, not whe...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities 0 Needs review

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

Profile annotation in the point shows slope of the middle of the left and right line

Please see attached file. User would like to be able to show slope of the middle of the profile lines, in annotation that is assigned to a point. Annotation shown on the printscreen.
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Visible final contour labels in corridor

After the corridor is created, it is possible to see the final contours. However, the contour elevation labels are not shown unless a proposed surface is created. Why is that so? I believe it would be beneficial to toggle on/off contour elevation ...
2 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 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

End Area Earthwork Corrections for Curvature

End Area Volumes are still a contractual requirement on projects. We need a tool to correct the earthwork calculations around curves like the GEOPAK “Centroid Adjustment” tool that did that correction and provided a summary of the centroid locatio...
about 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Collision-Free cross section annotation

​​There appears to be a feature in OpenRail and previously was in InRoads where you could specify in the Annotation Group to have the annotation shift if there was an overlap with another annotation but can't find the same feature in OpenRoads Des...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Export multiple element types in one LandXML

Wants an ability to export all the files in single landxml file which includes all the terrains with addition to plan geometry, longitudinal geometry and cross-sections.
about 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow Cross Section Navigator to work in read-only mode

The XS Navigator tool's full functionality is contingent upon users having file read/write access. This requirement seems excessive for reviewers who primarily need read-only access. I suggest revising the tool to accommodate reviewers with read-o...
8 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration