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Allow the road slope to exceed the gutter cross slope

My state agency commonly uses gutters with a 4% cross slope. The maximum superelevation rate is 7%. The gutter slope stays at 4% in this situation. Spread does not compute in this scenario because "A depressed gutter must have a Gutter Cross Slope...
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Recreate ATOOL MDL app

The ATOOL was something we used regularly to quantify the area of multiple shapes. This tool helped streamline the process of calculating quantities as needed.
4 months ago in OpenRoads Designer 5 Future consideration

Annotate a XS model range

It would be nice to be able to annotate a range of cross sections models instead of one or all.
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Parametric capability for the placement of Node and Conduit feature definitions

This would dramatically reduce the requirement for a vast number of library cells and feature definitions to be created
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Rename terrains, linear templates, surface templates and other elements by selecting from Explorer list>(right click) Properties

At the current OpenRoads version, we need to select the terrains at 3D view then click properties in order to rename. It would be better if it can be renamed just by selecting the terrain name from Explorer list>(right click) properties.
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

IFC export: 3D line styles and Mesh export

3D line styles are a powerfull tool, but if the ifc can't export it, they don`t mean much in a BIM world. Possibility to export them (barriers, Posts, Signs, ...) is a major breakthrough for OpenRoads/OpenSite BIM capabilities. The same goes for m...
10 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Terrain substitute tool

"Terrain Substitute” command that would swap all links from one Terrain to another, and also swap Parent Terrains for Surface Templates ( without breaking rules/relationships).
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Export Field Book data with Observations AND Attributes

I process survey data for the Maine Department of Transportation. We have been transitioning from InRoads to OpenRoads for about a year now and are currently testing OpenRoads Designer 2023. We really need a way to export edited Field Book data wi...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Ability to append, join, or combine individual alignments and have it hold the sub alignment stationing, which would create station equations

In Geopak, we had the ability to take individual alignments and create an overall alignment from a subset of alignments and it would hold the individual stationing for each alignment, creating station equations. There is no way to do this in ORD u...
10 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

Copy multiple vertical elements

There's no option for copying multiple vertical elements - you can choose only one. My idea is to make the tool "Copy Vertical" similar to its equivalent in horizontal ("Copy Element") which allows to copy multiple elements.
3 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration