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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 2 months ago in Annotation / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Product Alignment of file vs File Schema - Need better compatibility between platform products in the same generation/schema

Please update the OpenX product(s) so that any DGN can be opened for editing no matter what product authored the file as long as it remains in the same Major schema version Suggest any DGN can be opened by any product (Site/Rail/Road/Bridge) regar...

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...
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

[Terrain] Flow arrows with slope percentages

Need ability to toggle slope percentage annotations above/below the flow arrows on terrains. This will help with design and analysis. An option could be added in the flow arrow properties, please refer to the attached snapshot.
7 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Allow Cross Section Navigator to work in read-only mode

The XS Navigator tool's full functionality is contingent upon users having file read/write access. This requirement seems excessive for reviewers who primarily need read-only access. I suggest revising the tool to accommodate reviewers with read-o...
6 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Reassign/Reattach Civil Labels

It would be nice to have the ability to reattach civil labels to a new element or terrain. A good example is for jointing/geometric sheets with a lot of spot elevations. Fairly often a new terrain is created and the spots break and need to be repl...
over 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 7 Future consideration

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.
21 days ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

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.
22 days ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow for custom line styles to be synced with "update from dgn lib"

When a custom line style is updated in the workspace, it does not update existing files that have used the previous line style (of the same name). The only workaround is to: Manually delete all of the line styles you want to update Remove the defi...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

End Area Earthwork Corrections for Curvature

End Area Volumes are still a contractual requirement on projects. We need a tool to correct the earthwork calculations around curves like the GEOPAK “Centroid Adjustment” tool that did that correction and provided a summary of the centroid locatio...
10 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration