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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...
6 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Planned

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...
6 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / Import/Export / OpenRoads Designer Planned

Allow the road slope to exceed the gutter cross slope

My state agency commonly uses gutters with a 4% cross slope. The maximum superelevation rate is 7%. The gutter slope stays at 4% in this situation. Spread does not compute in this scenario because "A depressed gutter must have a Gutter Cross Slope...

Tool to Convert a Survey Linear to a Civil Geometry Complex Element or a MicroStation Linestring

There should be a one button command to convert a Survey Linear to a Civil Geometry Complex Element, a MicroStation Linestring, or individual MicroStation lines (User picks what they want). There are ways to accomplish this process now but most in...
about 3 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey Planned

Change Display based on Either Properties, Display Styles, or Level Overrides

When Switching between state of a Structure Existing and Proposed, Removed, Etc. we need a way to keep the same Feature we should be able to Either Map to a property to choose the Level to Display or be able to overwrite the Level Via Display Style.
11 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Planned

Combining Properties Menus

It would be super helpful if I didn't have to search two different property menus for where to change specific properties. If the general properties menu and the ORD DU properties menu could be more centralized into one properties menu, this would...

Enhancement to Auto Update Field Codes on Point Features when Field Code on Linear Feature is Updated

If a user changes a linear feature code, the expectation would be to also see the feature codes on the points that make up that linear feature change accordingly (if the linear feature was dependent on these points features and the appropriate lin...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey Planned

Enhancing Drainage Annotation Flexibility: Options for Maintaining Relative or Fixed Locations in Plan and Profile Views

Currently, drainage annotation will snap back to the placement location based on the placement settings within annotation groups. When I move the annotation I'd want to have the option of maintaining the location in relation to the object or maint...

Open Roads Deed Writer - Area Formats

Open Roads Deed Writer should provide options to use multiple measurement formats such as Square Feet instead of Acre.
almost 3 years ago in All Other / OpenRoads Designer Planned

Make editing catchment areas more user friendly

When you initially create a drainage area from a shape, it creates 'smart' vertices that you can grab and move with the cursor. However, after the initial catchment shape is created, the only way to add additional vertices is using the "Insert Ver...