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Drainage and Utilities

Prototype manager

The current prototype creation and editing process is highly manual and lacks efficient management capabilities such as mass editing, sorting, filtering, and rearranging of information. As a result, users must individually update entries, which be...
4 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Needs review

Ability to add lines and points to drainage cells (2D/3D)

Revised Justification for DU Cell Enhancements If Drainage and Utility (DU) cells could incorporate linear and point features, these elements could be utilized as break lines within graphical filters for terrain modeling. Additionally, such featur...
5 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Auto Annotate Conduits and Nodes

Have the auto annotate toggle (in the feature definition toolbar) work when placing nodes and conduits that have an annotation group linked through the feature symbologies.
about 1 month ago in Annotation / Drainage and Utilities Planned

GEOPAK Drainage gave you inlet calcs after you placed an inlet and assigned a catchment without having to run a scenario. We need this functionality in ORD

In Geopak Drainage, once you place a node and attached a catchment, you were able to see inlet calculations. This let the user know if they needed to shift the box to have an allowable spread. It would be great if we could get that feedback withou...
10 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Planned

Node-Connected Pipe Flex Table - Pipe Angle

Currently the Node-Connect Pipe Flex Table can report -Pipe- Label, Description, Rise, Inverts (Start & Stop), and Size. It would be useful if the angle of each pipe could also be included. Often in design need to verify a minimum distance bet...
24 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Needs review

Need to be able to read the GEOPAK Drainage binary file and export to a spreadsheet – without having GEOPAK installed or running

Geopak is no longer supported by Bentley. At some point, Geopak will not be installed on our machines, but we may need to get the calculations that reside in the GDF file. We need a method that will allow us to extract the information we need from...
10 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / Import/Export / OpenRoads Designer Planned
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Open API to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies.

It would be extremely helpful, if we were able to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies so that automation of the creation of new 'Custom Drainage Features' every time a drainage structure had a different bottom box (...
over 3 years ago in All Other / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration

Allow Annotation group 'label' settings to work with D&U

A new annotation filter setting (Label) was introduced in OpenRoads 2025. This setting works well to place callouts for corridor components, however when drainage/utility features are selected, we run into issues as shown below. The callout does n...
6 months ago in Annotation / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Parametric capability for the placement of Node and Conduit feature definitions

This would dramatically reduce the requirement for a vast number of library cells and feature definitions to be created
over 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration

Catchment Collection Reports

Certain Catchment properties can be stored as collections (composite time of concentration and rational C by Land Cover are 2 that come to mind). For individual catchments these collections can be opened and a report generated, however it is tedio...
about 1 month ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer / Reports Planned