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Calculate the area of survey chains if they are enclosed shapes

Survey chains (when enclosed) have a reported area value of zero. This is seen in the properties for the geometry, and also if you try to read the area through an item type using the expression This.GetElement().EnclosedArea. Our construction staf...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Future consideration

Ability to control segment length when triangulating.

We are currently not able to change segment length when triangulating surface. In SS2, you can define a segment length when triangulating a surface, but we cannot find this option in the OpenRoads application. There is a Survey stroking variable, ...
3 months ago in Survey / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Ability to lock Survey features when reprocessing field book

I made a change to a specific feature and I want to somehow lock the specific feature so it does not change when the field book is reprocessed. Example If I set Terrain Model Attribute of a point to "Do Not Include" then It should stay as that eve...
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

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...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Add a toolbar for Decorations

add a tool bar for decorations instead in only one menu. and toggle to turn all on and all off
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey / User Interface 1 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 ...
about 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.
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Legend cell of TIN files

This will be useful because it will allow us to create a legend cell of the TIN files like in GEOPAK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFVsRRx-4qY
almost 2 years 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.
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Add Ability to Create Terrain from Survey in a Reference File

Now that we have to ability to process a survey without having it automatically create a terrain, we would like to be able to use the Create Terrain from Survey command when the Survey is in a Reference File. In order to federate our data, we pref...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review