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Make it easier to find Point Control referenced element.

I needed to update one point control but I had no idea where I could find the line (plan element) that was used in the point control. The point I could find in the template or by hoving the mouse over the corridor, but the line (plan element) that...
over 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Ability to Analyze Elevations in Dynamic Cross Section

Users would like the ability to quickly place a point in the dynamic section view to pull elevation information. It would be nice to have that text remain in place as you move from section to section, similar to the cut/fill volumes between sectio...
about 3 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Copy an alignments from file to file with H+V+Cant+Turnout

Actually H+V+Cant can be only achieved through XML export/import.Turnouts are lost. It could help and simplify to have a command to copy an alignment from a file to another. Similary than what is happening when creating a civil cell, it would be g...
10 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

Annotate the Dynamic Cross Section View

As a Designer I want the ability to annotate point elevations and dimensions like we are able to in the drawing model cross-section so that checking the model during design before cutting sheets helps us.
over 1 year ago in Annotation / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Column Bar Patterns

It would be very helpful if there was a way to save column rebar patterns, specifically the "general" format patterns so they can be shared across different models without having to manually input every bar repeatedly. The superstructure design so...
4 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Add custom POIs under PS beam design module (Suprestructure/Conspan)

In OpenBridge Concrete, we cannot add points of interest as we can in the Steel edition. This limitation may lead to the software reporting incorrect minimum rating results. For instance, stirrup spacing is typically entered manually, starting clo...
4 months ago in Analytics / OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Place Bearing Under Beams Tool Settings window order of the sections, Bearing, Grout Pad/Bevel Plate, and Bearing Seat

In the Place Bearing Under Beams Tool Setting window I'd like to see the Bearing and Grout Pad/Bevel Plate sections switched to reflect the actual order of the parts of a bearing, like the material list below it. So that the Grout Pad/Bevel Plate ...
11 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

Add a “Chord" Toggle to all the Horizontal Curve Tools

To have to go to the Back Stage and select Settings ==> File ==> Design File Settings ==> Civil Formatting ==> Degree of Curve Method to change from an Arc Defined Curve to Chord Defined Curve is not a good workflow. In our State we ca...
over 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Temporary Dimension Lines in XSection Views

Currently in the XSection viewer in OpenRoads Designer if you have a corridor or linear template that touches our butts up against another corridor you can't place temporary dimension lines on those components to make measurements if the linear or...
over 3 years ago in Analytics / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Insert Vertex tool

Tool that adds vertex at chosen interval to a selected element segments. The "facet" tool is supposed to achieve this, but it is not designed to respect original element vertexes. So it ends up modifing the element path. The tool should work insid...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration