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Calculate the area of survey chains if they are enclosed shapes

Survey chains (when enclosed) have a reported area value of zero. This is seen in the properties for the geometry, and also if you try to read the area through an item type using the expression This.GetElement().EnclosedArea. Our construction staf...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Future consideration

Add Ability to use Measure Area: Flood tool in cross section drawing models.

The measure Area Flood tool does not work in cross section drawing models. Currently there is no way to calculate the area of individual shapes. This means if there is anything unique on a cross section, we can’t measure it easily. And no one can ...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 2 Future consideration

Civil Accudraw Reference Element Included in Heads Up Prompt and Highlight Element

When using Civil Accudraw’s heads up prompts it would be helpful to have the prompt display the reference element (or elements) and highlight it, so the user knows exactly which reference element is being used. Often users are switching betwee...
8 months ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Put all Drawing models in one dgn when using "One Sheet per Dgn."

When using the drawing production tools and selecting the option to create the drawing in a separate dgn file there is no way of updating the annotation groups in the resulting drawing file. This seems like a completely flawed workflow as you are ...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 9 Future consideration

Need a Text Favorite for Arc Chord Bearing

IDOT's Right-of-Way annotation requires the Chord Bearing as part of the annotation. When setting up annotations for the Civil Labeler, we found that an option for the chord bearing is currently not available as a Text Favorite when selecting Civi...
about 1 month ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 1 Already exists

Turnout points for tounge position

In railway engineering, there is a growing demand for positioning of the tongue in turnouts. The proposal is to introduce a new point in the Feature Definition of turnouts, making it possible to specify the distance from point .1 to the Tongue. Su...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Future consideration

Civil Label and Place Label Preview

I think it would be helpful to have a preview of what the label will look like before placing it. Similar to the geopak labeler preview window. And also to be able to select full station, partial station and number of decimal places for stations, ...
about 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Allow different levels for different conduit sizes in the same catalogue.

For Conduits, on our 2D plans, we show a different linestyle for each size of pipe. In InRoads, we would enable centerline display using these different linestyles. This linestyle is a wide dashed line with solid edge lines. We cannot replicate th...
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Planned

Turnout annotation error with restart the file

To create a turnout annotation, we need a text favorite with a description and the name of the turnout. In text favorite we have in the Feature tab Feature definition and Feature Name, which pull names from the properties of the turnout. After ann...
3 months ago in Annotation 0

Make profile active without opening profile view

It would be useful if some of the profile tools (quick profile from surface, profile from surface, etc) had a toggle to allow the profile to be set as active when it is created. This would make it more efficient in cases like when you need to crea...
about 1 year ago in Geometry 1 Future consideration