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Add support for Points/ Zero length elements using "Create 3D by Drape" tool

Currently "Create 3D by Drape" tool does not support point elements/ zero length elements. The modify point and drape element tool also does not work for zero length elements. Kindly add the support for zero length elements in "Create 3D by Drape ...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability for Corridor Horizontal Parametric Constraints to be applied with Reverse Cubic Curves

In our legacy software we could quickly and easily apply a reverse cubic curve tapers for our designs without having to create Geometry and have our lane edges follow that - noting that the Geometry is not actually the required reverse cubic curva...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Geometry Points ruled by Name to allow users to move Points by importing ASCII

Ruling point import by name would add some powerful automation to the software. If a user could import a Point via ASCII and have any existing Points with the same name update (while maintaining the same object) this would allow things like posts ...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry 0 Future consideration

Add Ability to move the vertical datum

The project is done without any geocoordinates and there is need to shift the overall project datum. currently the option to shift the model vertical elevation/ datum is not available. For Example, the original model done is at el. 16'...but need ...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Ability to Update/Load additional Pipe networks from Civil 3d

Currently When importing pulling in pipe networks (both utility and drainage) two things happen 1.) They lose a lot of data. 2.) you can only do it once. Then you have to erase EVERYTHING and do it again. The workflow generally goes like this: So ...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to perform evaluation and branching within Labeling tools

Before Survey Annotation tools were available within Open Roads, we used many VBA Feature Macros to generate all survey labels. As we were developing these, we realized that we could build some QA/QC checks into our code. For Example, we shoot sto...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Use of vertical alignment commands from geometry when creating the vertical alignment of utilities

Currently to get a specific vertical alignment on utilities it is quite difficult
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Creating Generic Curb Offsets

I would like to create a generic curb for airborne lidar extraction with a 0.5 ft vertical offset from the gutter to the top of curb and then a 0.5 ft horizontal offset from the top of curb to the back of curb. I would want to collect the gutter a...
almost 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Grid Text Rotated with Tick under Plan Grid Annotation

In Plan Grid annotation, grid texts (northing and easting) can only rotate or oriented with the view of drawing model but NOT able to rotated with the tick mark (+) or grid line.
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Provide feedback if annotation changes AFTER QC has been performed

While the rules-based annotation is nice, it also introduces some concerns. Some of our designers are frustrated because they don't know if an element (and thus it's child annotation) has been changed AFTER the annotation has been reviewed. Would ...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads SignCAD / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration