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Cross Section Station Label Precision

We would like a way to set even stationing to one precision and odd stations to another. Even station, 0 decimals and odd station 2 decimals in the same run.
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

turn on "settings from design model" via variable for all sheet seeds

The new setting called "settings from design model" is a great feature, allows plan view updates in the design model to propagate to drawing models and sheets. so its basically a "container" file. unfortunately, this is set in the sheet seeds only...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Feature Defintions (Window) - a proposal for improving this function

Feature Definition Toolbar A proposal for improving/expanding this feature Choosing Feature Definitions is a frequently used feature in OpenRoads Designer. Especially in urban projects, switching between pavement types, curbs, placing signs, ...
12 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Set Item Types and their attributes in the Template Library

Currently item types and their attributes would need to be programmed into to read a component or selected manually after an element is displayed. If the templates in the template library had the ability to set these selections and values ahead of...
almost 2 years ago in Item Types / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 4 Future consideration

Add custom line style automation for pipes in Drainage & Utilities

There is currently no way to utilize multiple custom line styles (or element templates) for pipes in plan view for Drainage and Utilities so that they are tied to the drainage property and will update to the correct line style if the pipe size cha...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Planned

Make Grips Visible and Useable on 4k displays

When using Grips for Structures and Pipes - the grip blends too much into the background color, and on a 4K screen is TINY. The pipe grip is annoying to select (it only appears when I select the centerline of the pipe) but when adjusting or swapin...
7 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Enable the “Zoom” feature within the Survey Field Book

Within the Survey Field Book of ORD, the right-click context menu offers a “Zoom” option. This should, I presume, fit all the selected survey features into view. It doesn’t work but would be very useful if it did. (Please see the attached image)
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Extend 2D profile terrain limits beyond element

The ability to extend a profile's terrain cut using the 2D quick profile tool would be helpful for all profile types - but specifically drainage. I'd like to be able to set a buffer distance that extends existing and proposed surface cuts beyond t...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow Vertical Geometry Stationing (Profile Annotations) to Reflect Correct Horizontal Chord Definition Stationing

This would be useful for designers working on a project in which chord definition is the client's standard. Currently OpenRail does not correctly annotate the stationing in our profile sheets. The stationing displayed by OpenRail is correct in arc...
almost 2 years ago in Annotation 1 Future consideration

Text Favorite Migration Tool for schema/ Major Updates changes

There are some cases when ORD updates come with changes on element/civil property field names used on text favourites. This can come from changes in the structure the fields are organized. Other cases can be just a name change, etc The problem is ...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration