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Add The Ability To Insert A Vertical Bend Or Curve Into A Drainage Link/PIPE.

It would be very helpful and much more efficient if there was an option to insert a vertical bend or curve into a drainage link/pipe from the profile run profile view. Basically, adding the exact same tool that is available in plan/horizontal call...
7 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Gutter velocity and normal depth in GVF-ORD D&U

It would be very helpful if ORD drainage model calculates the velocity and normal depth in the gutter- especially when we use gutter as a user defined gutter/channel in the medians to analyze median channel.
22 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Display transparent catchment boundary at the cursor when relocating an inlet.

Enable the user when relocating a catch basin to view the catchment boundary as the inlet location is adjusted. Thus, acting as a dynamic and transparent view of the catchment boundary for the inlet at the new location. This will simplify the work...
over 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Catchment Sub Areas need to be more accessible

A catchment's subareas is ONLY accessible by opening the subareas collection. This limits the ability to streamline various workflows. At minimum sub areas need to be accessible from the following: Flex Tables - The current flex tables will only...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Annotate invert and crown elevations of conduit anywhere along its length instead of just the start and end

We would like to be able to set up annotation groups to annotate the invert and/or crown elevations of a conduit along its length using set station intervals. Currently, there are only start/end invert/crown elevation text favorite fields.
3 months ago in Annotation / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Eliminate the Utility Property Panel

We are now 10 years into OpenRoads. Why are we still faced with two property panels. One for MicroStation and one for Utility/drainage. The two property panels overlap in what is displayed. ELIMINATE the Utility Properties Panel so we can end the ...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Use Tabs to Separate Items for Each Design Element in ORD Drainage

It is cumbersome to have to scroll through several pages of information to design and review drainage elements. KYTC would like to see tabs used, similar to those used in InRoads S & S. Each element (storm sewers, strom sewer inlets, drainage ...
over 2 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Connect a channel directly to an On Grade Inlet

It would be great if ORD had the capability to connect a channel directly to an On Grade Inlet to be able to calculate spread and bypass at the inlet. Currently the workaround is to connect the channel to a Generic Outfall at the edge of the inlet...
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Land Use Areas from a Reference

It would be nice to extract Land Use Data from a reference file rather than requiring the Land Use Areas always be drawn in the main drainage design file. This would both cut down on clutter in the design file and also allow larger areas to be del...
almost 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities 1 Future consideration

Utility Overhead Conduits/Nodes

Current Limitations Currently, creating overhead conductors between two "Overhead Nodes" (e.g., utility poles) results in a straight-line conduit. In reality, these lines always exhibit a natural sag due to gravity and tension forces. To model sag...
5 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration