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Use survey elements for point controls

If I have a survey element that represents some existing feature, I'd like the ability to use it as a point control when designing corridors.
17 days ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Implement Civil Accudraw for Dynamic Cross Section View

Similar to the plan and profile Civil Accudraw, it would be useful to have a tool to be able to view offset, elevation, and slope in the cross section interface. This is desired in the dynamic cross section view, where users could actively utilize...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 22 Future consideration

Make the Geometry Copy Element tool clone / duplicate an element with all rules, etc.

Currently the Copy Element tool either fail to copy, copies elements incomplete (with missing Vertical Geometry) or does not reproduce rules as intended. The Geometry Copy Element command should effectively be a cloning tool that copies everything...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 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.
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Ability to Place a Conduit/Pipe "Without" a Node

Many times, we have conduits/pipes that simply daylight a surface and drain on to the ground or into a pond. Please add the ability to place conduit/pipes "Without" the need of a Node. I understand that we can create a sort of null point/node that...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Feature Name Override Pick List

When editing points in ITL and applying a feature name override, there should be a pick list of all currently defined name overrides. Right now the only option is to remember what names you have assigned.
18 days ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Improve drawing annotation management

Sometimes we apply more than one drawing annotation to the same model. It would be good to have a model manager view with all the applied annotations group so that we can disable, remove or add. That way we could select what we want to remove inst...
about 1 month ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

User option for linear stroking when creating terrains while processing field data in 3d files.

It would be very useful to big back the user option for stroking linear elements when creating terrains. This was available in v8i and greatly enhanced our surface models. Right now there is a configuration variable but it can't be set by users. A...
10 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey / Terrain 6 Future consideration

Add some kind of optimization setting for "existing ground terrain contour display" to improve performance

We really need some kind of optimization setting available which will improve the performance of OpenRoads when Existing Ground Terrain Contours are Displayed. I believe this setting in Civil 3D is called "Level of Detail" or something. The proble...
19 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Select Multiple Annotation Definitions Simultaneously While Building Annotation Group

While building an Annotation Group, Annotation Definitions have to be selected one at a time in a temporary window. Make the definition selection window persistent, and allow multiple definitions to be simultaneously selected for addition to the a...
19 days ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration