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Terrain from mesh & Terrain from solid face

Create a terrain from the top or bottom surface of a select Mesh Element or Solid Element
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Add a right click option in the Feature Definition dialogue for "Set Active"

When navigating through all the feature definitions it would be handy to have an option to set the feature to the active definition being used. It's easier many times to navigate through the OpenRoads Standards list to find features than using the...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add Ability to Create Terrain from Survey in a Reference File

Now that we have to ability to process a survey without having it automatically create a terrain, we would like to be able to use the Create Terrain from Survey command when the Survey is in a Reference File. In order to federate our data, we pref...
almost 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

WS wind speeds table for FDOT Sdg 2.4 (and combinations) are not updated as per 2025

There appears to be a discrepancy in wind load calculations—specifically, the gust factor of 0.85 remains different from AASHTO standards. However, the FDOT Structures Design Guidelines (SDG) 2025 now allow the use of AASHTO Article 3.8, which may...
over 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Dynamic Cross Section Enable Showing Elevations at Selected Template Points

Similar to the commands like "Place Temporary Vertical Dimension", have a Right Click command to enable showing the temporary elevation of a specific template point selected such as a Ditch Flowline template point, existing surface at EOP template...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Update to Manual for Bridge Evaluation 3 rd edition

The current version of LBC we're using references the Manual for Bridge Evaluation, 2nd Edition as the basis for bridge rating. I'm wondering if there are plans to update this to reference the 3rd Edition instead. If such an update is planned, cou...
over 1 year ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

OBM Custom Bearing Functional Component Library TXDOT

When I create a parametric cell library for use in OpenBridge, the library isn't recognized as an option in the Place Bearings tool when working within TXDOT workspace projects. Even though the cells are correctly defined and referenced, they don’...
over 1 year ago in OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

Normal/parallel offset in vertical profile

In ORD it is possible to do a Profile Offset Transition. This methode makes a vertical offset. In case of a slope, the difference between the vertical offset and the normal/parallel offset is different. For large slopes, this is differences is too...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Developing Grasshopper Plugin for RM Bridge

The world famious bridge softwares such as Lusas, Midas Civil, Sofistik, Larsa 4D. All of them have been developed Grasshopper Plugin to increase the bridge modeling capacity. Lusas Grasshopper plugin: https://www.lusas.com/products/external_plugi...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review