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Invert Terrain Elevation

ASCII elevation data from hydrosurveys is delivered in positive depths making for an embankment instead of a channel. A function to multiply elevations by -1 would save a trip through Excel or a GIS program.
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Calculating Multiple Polygon Volumes using Analyze Volume from Terrain Model

The calculate volume tool only works on a single target polygon. If multiple polygons are present it's quite tedious to calculate one-by-one and manually sum the totals. For example in a bathy survey of a channel it's common to have different area...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 3 Future consideration

Terrains Analyse Volume scenarios toolbar

Instead of a one time thing, create and save the comparison set in a toolbar table. If I want to run again I just need to hit a refresh button for the specifc set. When developing a project, keeping track of cut and fill volumes between design and...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Create Terrain from reprojected reference file elements

The terrain creation tools don't work well when using elements from reference files that are reprojected from other coordinate systems. This seems to be true for many of the terrain creation tools. Some tools don't allow the elements from the repr...
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Add minimum vertical clearance results to delta surface tool

After creating the delta surface, we could not determine the location of minimum vertical clearance. We tried the analyze surface tool and it showed us coordinates of the min/max locations. However, the locations were outside of the delta surface....
3 months ago in OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Want the Edit Complex Terrain Model to show missing terrains

suppose a Complex terrain is created by combining multiple terrains. At some point thereafter if one of the individual terrains is deleted, if the "Edit Complex Model" tool is used the deleted terrain is simply gone. There's no indication that it ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Add Active Terrain Elevation to Civil Analyze tool

Many users regularly need to get the existing elevation at a specific alignment location and there is currently no quick or easy way to do this. Adding additional Active Terrain elevation information on the Civil Analyze tool would give users quic...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Add Triangulation Limit Shape to "Create Terrain by Graphical Filter"

We have issues with creating a terrain by graphical filter. The command grabs all filtered features in a file(s) and adds them to a terrain. The problem with this approach is areas with a gap are ignored and triangles span gaps causing one large t...
9 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 2 Future consideration

Addition of a new Linear Terrain Triangle Void Feature to automate precision Terrain triangle trimming

One very important piece of functionality that is currently missing in OpenRoads is a Linear Terrain Void feature type. This Linear Terrain feature would void/null any Terrain triangles it crosses, allowing users to add these features into their t...
over 2 years ago in OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Improve Complex Terrains - Do not process terrain until all terrains are added and ordered

When creating complex terrains each time a terrain is added the software processes the new terrain. This can take a long time if multiple terrains are added and reordered to a complex terrain. Please edit the software to process the terrain only w...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration