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Default Pick-list selection for Custom Filtered column

I have a long list of signs that I have as part of a pick-list item type. From that selection, I have 3 other item type properties that are also set up as picklist selections, and the selections are filtered based on the sign pick-list selection. ...
3 days ago in Item Types / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Vertically Aligned Collision Free Cross Section Frame Annotation when Using Horizontal Text

Using OpenRail 2024 Vertical Frame Text significantly increases the height of Cross Sections, THUS causing more sheets. Would like the capability to have Horizontal Text in a frame, one row for Offset, one for Elevation. While this can be done, wh...
9 days ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Live Element Annotation in Drawing Models via Annotation Groups

There can be a lot of instances on a project where a detail in a section is not practical to model 3D, and the user feels compelled draw the element live in the drawing model. It would be great to capture live elements with annotation groups, as t...
9 days ago in Annotation / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Patch Product More Often

I will use ORD as an example. I, along with many others, have chosen to remain on ORD 10.12 due to a constant string of issues with more current releases. Most recently, I tried to upgrade a project from 10.12 to 24. This resulted in my Text File ...

Make it possible to apply various symbology on one alignment

Many times an alignment is partly existing and partly new or changed. In the drawings this should be shown with different symbology and annotation, something that is not easy in ORD. A tool that can do this would be very useful!
17 days ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Annotation of High and Low Points for Geometry and other Linears

For now, the annotation of High and Low Points is very limited:# only one Low Point is detected - multiple low points are ignored# its is a linear3D annotation, and snaps on the annotations are not ruled (this intent is to be able to place drainag...
18 days ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenTunnel Designer 0 Future consideration

XML from Design Input Report for corridors should provide list of corridor attachments (and file and model the element is in)

Corridor design input report provides much of what we need to reconstruct the corridor, but not a list of linework listed in the corridor attachments.
18 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Apply Surface Templates perpendicular to slope of a terrain

surface templates apply depth vertically, in many cases it is desired a true depth that is perpendicular to the terrain.
25 days ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Ability to add bends in watermain and when the bend angle is changed to geometry updates

When laying out watermain pipes the bends can be 45 degrees, 22.5 degrees, etc. These bends are modeled as nodes in our workspace so we can report of them and display them in our drawings. If the angle of the pipe adjusts, we want the node feature...
27 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Incorporate cells to place note tool

The place label tool already has this functionality but once you place the label it's fixed and can't be adjusted. Please add the cell functionality to the place note tool to create labels for signs. Would be extremely useful. Also the place label...
30 days ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration