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Add Active Terrain Elevation to Civil Analyze tool

Many users regularly need to get the existing elevation at a specific alignment location and there is currently no quick or easy way to do this. Adding additional Active Terrain elevation information on the Civil Analyze tool would give users quic...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 1 Future consideration

Surface Template - Vertical offset

When working on sites and parking lot, sometimes we create a grading terrain to construct the slopes and low points than apply to it the pavement surface template. To model the sidewalks (think of a parking lot island) we create a clipped terrain ...
over 1 year ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Make Edit Feature Definition dialog box a non-temporary window

Make the Edit Feature Definition dialog box an actual dialog box. Currently it's too difficult to expand the dialog window, and it only remains in view when your cursor is within the window. It disappears too easily with a slight move outside of t...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface / Workspace 1 Future consideration

Add option to set forward/backward depth and forward/backward display while creating the cross section sheets.

When making named boundaries we were not able to select any settings or seed files that would let us select the options for forward/backward depth and forward/backward display. This means we had to go into each named boundary individually. Its imp...
over 1 year ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Calculating Multiple Polygon Volumes using Analyze Volume from Terrain Model

The calculate volume tool only works on a single target polygon. If multiple polygons are present it's quite tedious to calculate one-by-one and manually sum the totals. For example in a bathy survey of a channel it's common to have different area...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 3 Future consideration

unmerge single point tool in template menu

Currently there is a menu option to unmerge points for components, it would be nice to just unmerge a single point from both components and not all the points.
5 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Create Terrain from reprojected reference file elements

The terrain creation tools don't work well when using elements from reference files that are reprojected from other coordinate systems. This seems to be true for many of the terrain creation tools. Some tools don't allow the elements from the repr...
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Ability to select/delete multiple points in a template at the same time.

Applies to null points and component points.
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Label Slope with Two Points with Civil Labeler

Need the ability to pick two points and annotate the slope with civil labeler. Needs to be available for civil elements including survey elements.
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Adding a toggle option to control superelevation section automatic recalculation

Providing a toggle to control the automatic recalculation of superelevation values when the alignment it is dependent on is revised will help limit re-work needed to customize the superelevation values for a project. Exporting and reimporting supe...
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / Superelevation 0 Future consideration