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Limit the types of models that can have coordinate systems

Would be nice if the non-indexed profile models and cross section models prevented users from being able to assign coordinate systems. Also would be nice if coordinate systems weren't able to be attached to sheet models either. Since coordinate sy...
9 months ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 0 Future consideration

Add loading options in LEAP Concrete (Previously known as RCPIER)

Provide an option to enter girder properties for both the back span and fwd span if varying girder properties between back and fwd span When generating moments due to braking force, provide an option that distributes the moment divided by 10 and a...
9 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow Lanes in Superelevation Model View to take on the colors used in Superelevation Editor

This will help users more easily differentiate between lanes while in the Superelevation Model.
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration

Allow Assignment to Multiple Alternate Surfaces

There are often points in a template that should belong to multiple surfaces. For instance, we have a point in our rural templates that is part of the top mesh and should also belong to our aggregate shoulder alternate surface and our subgrade sur...
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Integrating Large Action Models for Design Efficiency: Leveraging AI for Advanced Design Assistance

In the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Large Action Models (LAMs) offer a new approach compared to Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4. While LLMs have advanced text generation and natural language understanding, LAMs focus on p...
9 months ago in All Other 0 Future consideration

Bring back "Create Geometry by Template" command

In the first versions of OpenRoads we had the tool "Create Geometry by Template" which would create ruled geometry from a template . Fast way to for lay out geometry for a project. Not sure why it went away.
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Horizontal Slew On longsection

This tool currently only works on regression geometry. Sometimes I find myself needing to mix regression and standard geometry. once o make these complex the slews do not show on the long section and i find myself manually typing them in from the ...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Add elevation ranges when measuring volume between terrains.

In Geopak, there was a tool under DTM Tools > Analysis > Volumes, where you could specify elevation ranges to calculate the volumes, while also taking into account the volumes between two TINs. You were able to specify multiple contour inter...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 1 Future consideration

Display and Annotate Tap Nodes in Profile Drawing

The feature name (e.g. a number) of the tap node can be labeled in the plan.The tap is visible in the "Engineering Profile".It would be helpful if this could also be displayed and labeled in the profile view/drawing. How it should work: Tap Node i...
about 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow Terrain Filter by Civil Element Name

Terrain filters have the ability to use the Feature Definition, but a lot of the time we have elements that we do not want all elements of a feature definition to be captured by the terrain filter. Our current workaround is to have multiple versio...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration