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Option to set station limits while creating Curvature Diagram.

I want option to set a station limits while creating Curvature Diagram so that we can focus on a very specific area instead of the whole geometry.
almost 3 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 1 Future consideration

Allow Esri Shapefile Field Name to be longer than 10 characters

When exporting a drainage flex table in ESRI format, the default field names include names longer than 10 characters. This throws the error message: "The Esri Shapefile field name <Middle_Flow> for column <Flow (Middle)> cannot be long...
8 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Settings from Design Model should sync all 8 views in the view group

The saved view reference setting "Settings from Design Model" synchronizes the level display (and other settings) from view 1 in the reference file to ALL views in the master file. One efficient method of producing plans is to have a different lev...
22 days ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Cross Section Navigator - Alignment Associations

A user asked, "Why is it that upon closing cross cross-section navigator, users have to re-associate an alignment, pick a viewport to display the dynamic cross sections, and then data point inside this viewport to get the Cross Section Navigator p...
about 1 month ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Add a right click option in the Feature Definition dialogue for "Set Active"

When navigating through all the feature definitions it would be handy to have an option to set the feature to the active definition being used. It's easier many times to navigate through the OpenRoads Standards list to find features than using the...
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add Offset Format options to the Point Constraints

Add the Offset Format options that are available for the Point Offset text favorite (Positive Prefix, Negative Prefix, Positive Suffix, Negative Suffix, and Show Sign) to the Point Constraints Offset text favorite.
about 2 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRail Overhead Line Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Geometric "intervals" (remove or hide)

When you are working with design you shouldn´t need to think about whether the elements you see on the screen are "real elements" or "intervals" - and it´s not so easy for the user to control if the program creates one or the other when you work. ...
2 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Can openrail consider to improve the edit horizontal element tool

There are quite a lot of situations we need to edit element lengths (shorten or lengthen) by fixing their stop ends, which can be done easily in BRT; However, I couldn't find similar tools in Openrail to solve it. Can Openrail improve the table ed...
2 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Civil Labeler - option to place DUConduit annotation at endpoints only

Idea: ability to select the End point of linear features while setting the Civil Labeler placement. This functionality would help users to place annotation of DU links at end point only. This type of feature is useful to annotate the Drop Depth va...
3 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Export to IFC/Export to SHP/Export Geometry to reprojected coordinate system

Part of our design process includes exporting Geometry lines to XML and exporting both IFC and SHP files. These assets get loaded into our GIS system. However, during the design process, we design off of a modified coordinate system, and our GIS s...
4 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration