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Allow pasting Excel tables in Design Standard Tables

One of the features that I think would improve the software is the ability to paste Design Standards Tables from Excel into the software. This would save a lot of time and effort for users who need to adjust these values frequently, especially whe...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Existing Top of Rail Elevations

Needs a more efficient way to annotate existing top of rail elevations in a profile view.
over 2 years ago in Annotation / Geometry / OpenRail Designer 2 Future consideration

Import profile from element

We should be able to import profiles from elements. Because the profile drawing gives us usually like dwg file format, or like cad file format. if we draw an empty profile same dwg's profile scale on the screen, we can import dwg profiles very eas...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Add option to use only centerline radius for superelevation calculations

Provide an option or new method to use the centerline radius (instead of inside lane radius) for divided highways that use a Crown pivot method. The Divided Inside pivot method already does this for divided highways that pivot about the inside lan...
over 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration

Create multiple long sections/profiles in the same model space

When creating profiles/long sections for track vertical geometry, ORD creates an individual sheet view and model view for each sheet. This creates a large amount of work when trying to bulk annotate or export long sections for drafting. It would b...
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

label contours

label contours from inroads. there are times we have to label elevated "graphic" lines (aka contours and or benches without having a terrain model). was very helpful in inroads)
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 8 Already exists

add distance between VPI to annotations in profiles

We need this to label our profiles optimally there'd be two values, once the horizontal (projected) distance and once the true (slanted) distance between to VPI's
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Additional Shoulder Rollover Slope Rows (3D Modeling - Templates)

I would like to make a suggestion on an improvement to template design for 3D Modeling in ORD. The Rollover values tool in superelevation template design is incredibly helpful, as it saves time by calculating the proper shoulder super rates accord...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration

Add an ExtendLine Code to Survey

This code would be similar to the DIST command, except it would allow the crews to add a taped distance to the last segment of a figure, which would extend that segment by that value. It would be similar to a DIST commend except instead of turning...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Fix DIST Command in Survey to InRoads Survey Operation

The DIST Command in Open Roads is almost identical to the InRoads version with one problematic exception. Open Roads uses the last two actual shots to determine the direction to turn the 90-degree angle to generate its points. InRoads would allow ...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration