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Text Favorite for Event Point Description

Need the ability to create a Text Favorite for the Description Field of an Event Point.
over 1 year ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Add COGO interface

Need a COGO interface. Please incorporate the traverse routine and dialog box from InRoads into ORD
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Civil Cells does not recognize turnout elements

Civil cells does not support turnout or crossing elements. Ability to include turnout and crossings in civil cells, will enable creating civil cells for siding and yard areas.
over 1 year ago in Geometry / Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Add an option to include "Profile" when offsetting Geometry

There should be an option to include the Profile when offsetting geometry if desired. Currently we need to offset the geometry and then copy the profile. It would be much more intuitive if there was an option to just include the profile when initi...
10 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Modify Element (Trim/Extent)

I would ensure that my vertical and horizontal alignments are the same length by using the Trim/Extend buttonn in geomtery editior in Power Rail Track - can we have the same functionility in ORD please? I know I can snap vertical alignment to the ...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Having an Undo & Redo button for the Table Editor

Sometimes mistakes happen. Rather than closing out of the window and waiting for ORD to undo the mistake, the "Undo/Redo" button would make the design process all little smoother. The button won't end mistakes but it sure beats having to close out...
3 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Export Geometry XML from Read Only File

We have many users on the survey side that need to quickly jump in a design file and export out an alignment xml for staking. Non-Roadway users do not have write access to these files and the export geometry tool cannot be used in a read only file...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Profile projection tools for crossfall relative to Target element

In legacy software, we had the option to either project crossfall from one element to another relative/normal to the reference element or relative/normal to the target element. We do not seem to have this functionality in ORD currently (although t...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Civil arc defined by 3 tangent points

Something very useful in MicroStation and AutoCAD is the ability to define an arc by 3 tangent points. The elements could be of any type and each point would belong to a different element.
about 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Notification/warning if alignment doesn't have active profile.

If an aligmment has a vertical profile, can we please ensure that it's active. The profile creation process is labourious in this software, and to find out that your profiles are empty at the end of this process as there weren't active isn't great...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 6 Future consideration