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Cut complex geometry plan/profile

It can come situations, especially in investigations, when you need to break a complex alignment i two because several reasons as change number of tracks or decisions of other design of a railyard/shut yard. Today we have to break the complex whic...
13 days ago in OpenRail Designer 0 Needs review

DU tool to update node name by feature definition

The name of the nodes are defined at placement by the selected Feature Definition. It's common for it to be changed during the design process. For these cases, all altered nodes must be manually renamed. This usually is done through selection or u...
about 1 month ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Enable hydraulic analysis for referenced files

For large projects, we need the ability to have multiple engineers working on the hydraulic model. We can achieve this by splitting the pipe network into multiple files and creating catchments in separate files. Doing so causes us to lose the abil...
4 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

DU: Only modelling workflow

When starting a DU, OpenRoads creates a whole DU project inside the file and brings a lot of hidroly/hidraulic properties with it. That's fine if the goal is to run an analysis. But what if I just want to model a whole network and never run it? Di...
5 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Ditches be channel features

It would be wonderful if ditches were channel features so that they could be treated as surface features like gutters are to get head on inlet.
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Custom Grate Spacing and Sizes

It would be amazing if we could utilize our own grate spacing for calculating the head on inlets. KYTC has several grates that don't quite match with what is in the delivered system, and this may affect the depth of the head on the inlet.
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Element Templates Point to Multiple Cells

At KYTC we like to show the vaults of drainage structures, in order to do that S&S drew them for us. ORD does that in 3D, however, we turn the 3D off when producing plans. It would help in the case that we could point to two cells (one that ma...
9 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Feature Definition Dynamic Change Tool

A tool that would allow feature definitions to be changed similar to how a smart match and change element attributes tool works. There are times when we add a friction course and need to change multiple point feature definitions and the current wo...
9 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Create/save an annotation group after manual edits by selection set

Would it be possible to create/save an annotation group after all the manual edits are complete? Essentially, creating an annotation group by selecting the text on a level or color.
9 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Cross Section View and elevation difference measurement tools

A way to better measure slope in cross section view, and elevation difference, that isn’t clunky. 
9 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Needs review