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Name individual elements when using Complex by PI

You can name an element if drawn 1 at a time with tangents and arcs. But if you use Complex by PI you can't go back and name your elements to make it easier to report on your geometry.
10 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Radial line of sight - Along alignment for visual intrusion checks

The new feature in 2022 R3 with the line of sight/ Radial sight check is good for a single check, but being able to run the radial tool along an alignment at set intervals to be able to check for visual intrusion. This will be a great design aid i...
about 1 year ago in OpenRoads Designer / Terrain 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...
3 months ago in Reports 0

Event point description reporting

I have imported several groups of horizontal event points such as viaduct start and endpoints. The points include their point description. I would like to report Station, Easting, Northing and the point description but the "Horizontal Alignment Ev...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

turn on "settings from design model" via variable for all sheet seeds

The new setting called "settings from design model" is a great feature, allows plan view updates in the design model to propagate to drawing models and sheets. so its basically a "container" file. unfortunately, this is set in the sheet seeds only...
about 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Point Table using MicroStation Table Styles

This would literally save large projects 100s of hours. Plus having points in tables that are ruled eliminates so many chances for errors. Other civil products have had this feature for years. Creating grading points on plans is so easy when table...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Add a “Chord" Toggle to all the Horizontal Curve Tools

To have to go to the Back Stage and select Settings ==> File ==> Design File Settings ==> Civil Formatting ==> Degree of Curve Method to change from an Arc Defined Curve to Chord Defined Curve is not a good workflow. In our State we ca...
over 1 year ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Provide Low Point/High Point Information in Profile Table Editor

Lost functionality that was available in Geopak. Helpful to meet specific locations when designing a profile, instead of storing the profile and reading the profile report, or hand calculation of the low and high points.
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Please add support for DWG files on import or Attach function

I am using OpenRoads ConceptStation 2024, Tried to load the basic 2D dwg file as reference for a road design work, but system not allowed, current turnaround is convert dwg to dgn which is not best bet. Pease add support for DWG files on "import" ...
3 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRoads ConceptStation 0 Future consideration

Ability to edit Annotation Groups in any model

It's a little cumbersome to keep going back and forth between models when developing annotation groups. An alternative could be to be able to select the geometry that is shown as the example when in the annotation group manager.
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration