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OpenRoads Designer

3d drainage node cut use baseline offset automatically

a lot of stormsewer profiles are run along our mainline vertical for plan illustration purposes. it would be beneficial if we had a special 3d cut mode that just read off the drainage properties of the nodes to create offset cuts even set them to ...
2 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Needs review

Superelevation Rules file configuration variable

Please add a config variable that allows us to point to the folder where the superelevation rules files reside but without specifying a specific superelevation rules file. This will be helpful when a project has multiple rules file to choose from ...
6 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Workspace Future consideration

Automated Catchment vs Alignment Low-Point Detection

Requirement:The system shall provide the ability to identify the low point at the intersection of a catchment area and the design alignment. This functionality shall assist the user in determining where a culvert is required. Process: Reference ...
7 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Needs review

Toggle On/Off Fields Civil Analyze Point Copy to Clipboard

Copy to Clipboard from Analyze Point is incredibly useful, but it would be nice to be able to toggle which data fields were copied to improve workflows from OpenRoads to other programs. For example, toggling off everything except for station and o...
8 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface Future consideration

Add ability to have the stripping component to follow the benching of the end condition

We'd like to have a feature for a stripping component to target the end condition especially when there is benching. Currently, the furthest that can be done is for one of the points of stripping component to target only a single point in the end ...
9 days ago in Modeling / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Nodes for multiple barrel conduits

The ability to place a conduit with multiple barrels is very useful. However, there are many scenarios where a single node is needed on each of the multiple barrels. Instead of modeling the pipes individually or creating custom twin-node workaroun...
16 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Needs review

Regression: add "Add to Complex" and "Remove from Complex" tools

In OpenRoads Designer regression workflows, teams rely heavily on Undo to remove a segment from the complex alignment being drawn when a solution does not work and they need to back up and start again. This is fragile and inefficient. A better wor...
16 days ago in OpenRoads Designer / Regression Analysis Future consideration

Add end condition alignment targeting in template component properties dialog

When opening the component properties dialog for an end condition, there is an option to select a feature definition. Currently, users can only target feature definitions under the Linear category and not the Alignment category.
16 days ago in Modeling / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface Future consideration

No duplicate Feature Names in separate files that are referenced

As part of digital delivery workflows, when lines, points, drainage features, or similar items are placed in one file and then need to be used in a different file, the feature names that come in by default start over in the new file. This results ...
16 days ago in OpenRoads Designer / User Interface Future consideration

Set Design Standards Toolbar (Add B-Spline warning in the Civil Message Center)

Once Design Standards are set on an Alignment, add a B-Spline warning to the civil message center. A few tools from the Geometry tab create B-Splines and many users assume those are Civil Elements. When alignments with B-Splines export to LandXML,...
16 days ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface Future consideration