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Enable hydraulic analysis for referenced files

For large projects, we need the ability to have multiple engineers working on the hydraulic model. We can achieve this by splitting the pipe network into multiple files and creating catchments in separate files. Doing so causes us to lose the abil...
4 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Openroads IFC Flex table data added to export

Issue: No way to export Flex table data from Openroads to IFC. Impact: This prevents us from meeting client standards for data-rich IFC outputs on infrastructure projects in Europe. Request: Add functionality to export Flex table data to IFC as a ...
2 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Needs review

provide highlighting or red text for the following note to better stand out when value is non-zero

Enhancement Request to provide highlighting or red text for the following note to better stand out when value is non-zero.
2 months ago in OpenBridge Designer / User Interface 0 Needs review

Exporting Field Book with Observational Data

I process survey data for the Maine Department of Transportation. We have been transitioning from InRoads to OpenRoads for about a year now and are currently using OpenRoads Designer 2023. Myself and others in the Department are seeing frequent co...
9 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads ConceptStation / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Needs review

Add support for multiple piers/abutments on the same support line

This will be very useful for bridge widening projects. Also, consider that the support will have gaps and overlaps between supports.
4 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Needs review

Requesting Dogleg Cross Sections

Cross sections must be perpendicular to the flow lines at all locations. And they cannot intersect with each other. That is why it is common to see cross sections snap at different angles outside the main channel (we call this doglegging). The tri...
11 months ago in Drawing Production 1 Needs review

Make Survey Attribution Easier to Import

Currently, ORD cannot process more than two attributes from a survey data file into their own unique attribute column. The workaround is tedious and unintuitive: First, modify the CSV file from the data collector (not good practice to modify a sur...
2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

Normal cells to export ItemTypes data to IFC in OpenRoads Designer

The IFC Export in ORD is very good, but it needs improving to enable normal and orphan cells to export ItemTypes data to the IFC output, currently only shared cells will do that.
5 months ago in  0 Needs review

DU: Only modelling workflow

When starting a DU, OpenRoads creates a whole DU project inside the file and brings a lot of hidroly/hidraulic properties with it. That's fine if the goal is to run an analysis. But what if I just want to model a whole network and never run it? Di...
5 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Insert vertex into a field book line string with an elevation, and/or add a point in the details list and designate as an added model point.

It is necessary to clean up surveyed field book data and crossings or overlap of lines to produce a cleaner smoother terrain model.
10 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review