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Ability to Rearrange the Point Order of Template Components

While using the display rules to switch between the two components. If the components are created in different point order the mesh created does not resolve correctly. For example. One component is created clockwise and other anticlockwise order o...
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Already exists

Ability to speficy background color for active View

Being aware of what view is active is fundamental in ORD workflows. For now, active/inactive is shown with a light color difference in title bar and cannot be changed.I'd like to be able to specify hihglight color as I can specify active window co...

Incorporate an ORD roadway designer window & file (.ord)

I'll be honest, the implementation ORD's strength is the software's weakest point. Being able to visually see the model in the 2D default model theoretically sounds great but the execution is costing too much time and money on medium to large scal...
about 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Will not implement

Visualization of Flood Fill based on min and max height values

A function of flood fill a portion of the terrain based on a min height and max height value. It allows a drainage engineer to visually check if a certain flood top water level will flow beyond the project boundary. Is there a way to do this in Op...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Adding Japanese Cubic Parabola

OpenRail Designer seems to have Japanese Sine spiral type added from the formula used in Power RailTrack. However, there seems to be nothing similar to Japanese Cubic Parabola, which is based on a different formula from Japanese Sine.
6 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Set cant parameters before applying

Make the Cant tool more useful. Currently, we set the speed then apply cant and it spits out some random cant values, which are unrealistic. Then we can set the cant parameters and the software proves the values are unrealistic and we have to edit...
about 1 year ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 1 Needs review

View Control - Customize Window Layout

Using the long right-click View Control menu I would like the ability to custmomize the different View windows to utilitze a 2nd monitor. I know you can edit an XML file to contol where the different views open, but I have not been able to "progra...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 1 Future consideration

Exporting reports to excel now prompted to save the file first, rather than it exporting directly into a new excel window.

Reporting tools are critical to our workflows to validate and document designs. Please consider reverting to exporting directly to Excel without having to save first - as this added step appears to be causing the issue, and only adds time to the w...
7 months ago in Reports 0

Gutter spread - flip side

Why do gutters not have a "side" as spread when drawn appear in the right side.
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

If no Design Lenghts in Catalog - Ignore or Set Design Inlet Openings to false

I do not see a place to force in a Inlet Catalog to set "Design Inlet Opening" to false, so I would like the software to assume False if lenghts are NOT in the catalog.
about 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Needs review