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Automatically calculate and display the inlet and outlet elevations at the inside wall of the node

We connect the pipe at the center of the node, and we are seeking functionality that allows the drainage properties to automatically calculate and display the inlet and outlet elevations at the inside wall of the node (see picture).
10 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 1 Planned

Option to export closed components as solids without additional preparatory steps

Closed components in the template are currently saved as meshes when exported to, for example, DWG format, unless an additional manual operation has been performed beforehand to convert the meshes to solids. I would like to have an option to perfo...
11 days ago in OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Civil Labeler for 3D Cut in profile drawings

Enhancement for the Civil Labeling functionality to allow labels to be placed and displayed correctly on 3D cut elements within profile drawing models. Currently, Civil Labels do not recognize or annotate these 3D cuts, limiting the ability to doc...
1 day ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow Creating Regions/Areas by flood with surveyed elements in a reference file

When creating regions/areas in a design file using the Flood tool, allow ORD to find linework created with survey. This feature was available with surveys created prior to ORD. Right now you need to copy the elements you wish to use as a boundary ...
1 day ago in Modeling / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add a way to organize / reorganize Field Books by name ("Explorer - Survey - Fieldbook Names")

I am working on collecting field survey data for 5 bridge projects. Thus, I am intermingling the collection of points on differing bridge sites. I am collecting all these survey points in one data collector file. It would be very helpful if Bentle...
2 days ago in OpenRoads Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

SUE - Utility Information Defined During Placement

It would be helpful if the utility placement tool allowed for populating utility property data such as Quality Level, Owner, etc. As-is these must be added after placement and are not easily edited in bulk.
2 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

SUE Conflict Flex Tables - Additional Data Inclusion

The utility conflict report flex table provides very limited options for data of the conflicting features. It would be helpful if more of the Utility Properties were available to include in the report - specifically those such as "Owner" and "Desc...
2 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Allow Set Feature Definition to Update Associated Item Types

When using Set Feature Definition to change an element from one Feature Definition to another, existing Item Type values are not updated. For example, if a striping line is initially assigned an Edgeline Feature Definition with an Item Type proper...
2 days ago in Item Types / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Enable ModelBuilder to automatically import and apply node rotation attributes for D&U elements

ModelBuilder does not currently handle node rotation/orientation for D&U in ORD, and rotation is expected to be set manually after import. It'd help save time if we could specify a reference element for relative rotation during the import proc...
3 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 0 Needs review

Track distance in accordance with the definition in the EN standard EN15273-3.

A graphic tool and a style sheet that shows track distance in accordance with the definition from EN-15273-3, chapter 3.2 are desirable. The point is that the distance between two tracks, measured from track center to track center, shall be measur...
6 days ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review