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Option to keep siding alignment start station in synch with mainline alignment

Option to keep siding alignment start station in synch with mainline alignment as shown in the attached video
almost 4 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to separate the annotation of curves and spirals for the rail cant

Ability to separate the annotation of curves and spirals for the rail cant. At present the Non-Linear setting is applying to both This is usefull to remove some clutter (especially where there is short elements like below;
almost 4 years ago in Annotation / CANT / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Add ability to draw Ahead/Back Tangent line for full length from PC to PI and from PT to PI

Currently in annotation group, the back/ahead tangent line drawn at the PI only has the option for a fixed length. We would like the ability to draw back and ahead tangents the full length from PC to PI to PC. This could apply to both horizontal a...
almost 4 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Update the Minnesota M1-6M, M1-6a and M1-X4 county shields for 3-digits

MnDOT wants to start using wider 3-digit sizes (22.5"x18", 30"x24" & 45"x36") for some of the county shields within the Minnesota standard in OpenRoads SignCAD. The wider 3-digit sizes are needed for the M1-6M and M1-6a blue pentagon county sh...
about 1 year ago in OpenRoads SignCAD / Workspace 0 Planned

Compare real data from a tunnel with its theoretical corridor

Hello. We're building a tunnel and need OpenTunnel to be able to compare the actual data from the constructed tunnel (recorded via scanning) with the theoretical data from the designed tunnel corridor. There are other programs that do this: Istram...
about 1 year ago in OpenTunnel Designer 0 Needs review

Ablity to connect two nodes directly by flange

For the water supply project, in a situation where we have cast iron elements connected to the flange such as gate valves, hydrants, elbows, venturiers and plastic line pipes. There is no way to connect the two nodes directly through the flange. a...

Show deflections at PIs even when there is no curve

As a Highway Engineer, I want the horizontal alignment reports to show deflections at PIs even if there is no curve, at least one of the reports so that I don't need to add it manually.
over 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Geometry Replacer needs to include Vertical geometry

The horizontal Geometry Replacer tool is a step in the right direction, but it needs to include support for replacing profiles as well or have a companion tool of some kind.
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow Initial and Residual camber values to be entered

To aid in geometric calculations with construction staging, it would be beneficial for beams to have an erection camber and residual camber values. OBM could model two beams in the same location: 1) Construction Case Beam is before deck placement,...
7 months ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Toggle Background On Text

In civil labeler and the place text tools, it would be useful to have a "Background" toggle option for text. Right now, if we want text to have a background, we have to set it in the text style. Since there are varying situations where we want or ...
almost 3 years ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration