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144 VOTE

Annotate Superelevation Stations In Plan View

Ability to annotate superelevation transition locations (NC, LT, LR, FS, etc.) points with slope direction indicators in plan view.
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 5 Future consideration

Snapping to arc/spiral end in profile

I would highly recommend to let user to snap to arc or spiral end in profile design. As you can see in the attached video I can't find intersection between profile alignment and vertical line that indicates arc/spiral end. To find intersection b...
10 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Enhancement::Additional Tool for Design of Cross over connection between Tangent & Canted Tracks

I suggest improvements to Bentley OpenRail Designer for handling Cross over connections in the following scenarios: Cross over Between Adjacent Tangent Tracks: Enable a simple geometric connection between two parallel tracks without the use of Geo...
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review
115 VOTE

Make Template Editor a non-modal window.

In legacy versions of the software, I can have the template library open on one screen, corridor modeler on another screen, and the CAD window open on a third screen. I can make/save changes in the template, make/save changes in the corridor model...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Configuration variable to control default path for .tiw files

When working in a fieldbook in survey, we want to set the default file path to a specific location for .tiw files. As it stands, ORD remembers the last location from which a .tiw was imported, but we want to set a file path for all users.
24 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey / Workspace 0 Future consideration

Updating XS annotation group w/o resetting annotation placement

The XS annotation group will place annotations in text conflicting locations. Once the user resolves the text conflicts there is a chance that the annotations may have to be revised when the model is updated. Therefore, it would be helpful if ther...
25 days ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration
113 VOTE

Separate vertical alignment model from horizonal geometry

One of my biggest pain points about ORD is if the horizontal geometry is dropped or broken, the vertical is consequently lost as well. This creates significant rework from a design and plan production standpoint (connected named boundaries). One w...
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

import parcels, survey chains, lines, curves, spirals from GPK

Since GEOPAK is no longer supported. I have heard from Bentley time and time again that we can get to our data out of the GPK and import it into ORD. BUT this is only true for chains, profiles and points. What about Parcels? survey chains? lines? ...
over 1 year ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Planned
132 VOTE

Show and annotate projected points on profile view

Show and annotate projected points on profile view. This is for dynamic and drawing production profiles.
about 2 years ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 3 Future consideration

Ability to Update Annotation Groups

Currently for drawing model annotation groups, if the user wants to update the annotation, they would need to remove the outdated annotation group, which would removal all annotation groups, and then reapply all annotation groups. It would be nice...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration