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Terrain

Upgrade Extract Contour tool to be more like Pass Through Contours tool from InRoads

The following idea is related to the survey tool gap analysis that is already being considered. The Extract Contour tool should be enhanced to place a graphic line at a specific elevation. Currently, you have to change the contour interval of my t...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Survey / Terrain Future consideration

Creating a fence to filter the elements to be considered for graphical filter

Currently, Graphical Filter will use all elements in the DGN to create the terrain based on the filter created. However, in certain cases, that might not be ideal as we may not need the entire terrain model to be created. As such, having the abili...

Rename terrains, linear templates, surface templates and other elements by selecting from Explorer list>(right click) Properties

At the current OpenRoads version, we need to select the terrains at 3D view then click properties in order to rename. It would be better if it can be renamed just by selecting the terrain name from Explorer list>(right click) properties.
over 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain Future consideration

User option for linear stroking when creating terrains while processing field data in 3d files.

It would be very useful to big back the user option for stroking linear elements when creating terrains. This was available in v8i and greatly enhanced our surface models. Right now there is a configuration variable but it can't be set by users. A...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey / Terrain Future consideration

Add some kind of optimization setting for "existing ground terrain contour display" to improve performance

We really need some kind of optimization setting available which will improve the performance of OpenRoads when Existing Ground Terrain Contours are Displayed. I believe this setting in Civil 3D is called "Level of Detail" or something. The proble...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain Future consideration

A tool to identify the actual XY coordinate location of a high or Low Point on a terrain

Currently we can Analyze Element to obtain the range high and range low for XYZ of a terrain, but that XY value does not reflect the coordinate of the actual range high/low Z, it just gives the highest/lowest XY in terms of the coordinate number. ...
about 1 month ago in OpenRail Designer / Terrain Future consideration

[Terrain] Flow arrows with slope percentages

Need ability to toggle slope percentage annotations above/below the flow arrows on terrains. This will help with design and analysis. An option could be added in the flow arrow properties, please refer to the attached snapshot.
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain Future consideration

Complex Terrain - Rename "merge" and "append" to something more descriptive

Suggest renaming the "merge" and "append" functions when creating a complex terrain to something more descriptive of the action being performed. For instance, merge could be renamed to "overwrite" and append could be renamed to "use both". Users h...
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain / User Interface Future consideration

Support importing .laz files into a terrain

Please add the support to import an .laz file directly to a terrain. If it ORD can read an laz into a point cloud it seems like a pointless extra step where I have to convert an laz into a pod or las before I can import it into a terrain.
7 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain Future consideration

Improve "Create Terrain from Design Meshes" & "Graphical Filter" tool. Filter by Fence / Shape / Reference Clip / Level Display / Selection Set

When I first saw this tool I was so excited. I could drape the design meshes from top or bottom and create a terrain . Then I started using it and realize the tool may need some improvement because it processes everything in the file or reference ...
over 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain Future consideration