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Survey Media Files

Currently Survey Media files can only be viewed in the dgn file with the fieldbook. Can we get an enhancement to view photos when the survey fieldbook file is referenced to another file.
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Survey Cell Rotation within an sqlite file

If a survey cell is rotated in a dgn file that houses a filedbook and that fieldbook is then exported to an .sqlite file the survey cell does not retain it's rotation.
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Survey Field Book Enhancement

Users would like the ability to create multiple field books without the terrain connecting to each. This would be necessary when surveying multiple sites for one given road project. Currently, this is done by importing the data and then going to t...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

When creating a new point in a Survey field book using the “New Point” command, allow an option to hand-enter the coordinates.

When using the “New Point” command for a survey point, the user must screen-pick the coordinates. There are times when it would be extremely useful to hand-enter the Northing, Easting, Elevation.
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Survey Control Code Template

Need the ability to add a predefined template to control codes. For example, I can create curb and gutter templates that would generate the needed linears at the correct horizontal and vertical values.
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Offset Horizontal Regression from Points

The ability to use an offset to create a single line alignment based on a regression line that was created by points. This ability would allow the user to create a centerline alignment based on monuments/survey points located a specified distance ...
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Enable the “Zoom” feature within the Survey Field Book

Within the Survey Field Book of ORD, the right-click context menu offers a “Zoom” option. This should, I presume, fit all the selected survey features into view. It doesn’t work but would be very useful if it did. (Please see the attached image)
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Improve Geometry Builder interface

Often Surveyors are responsible for generating exi sting alignments from limited data (in plans or collected in field.) We have identified that using the Geometry Builder can be a "wo rkaround" but it is clunky and there are more steps involved th...
about 1 year ago in OpenRoads Designer / Survey / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add "Update From Source" to Fieldbooks

Similar to the "Update from Source" available for terrain models, it would be great to be able to right-click on a fieldbook that's being read from an external file and tell it to refresh based on edits made to the external file. Of course, there ...
over 1 year ago in Survey 0 Future consideration

Add a position tick mark to the Survey Decorators

Inroads allowed the user to toggle a tick mark, such as a plus symbol (+), to show the position of any survey point in the fieldbook. Very useful. ORD allows the toggling of many different attributes of a point by using Survey Decorators. Please a...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration