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Existing terrain element concept and modifiers

Vectorworks Landscape, Revit 2024 or Virtual Surveyor (a drone photogrammetry software) treat existing terrain in a extremely effective way, but all of them lack the volumes and tools from OpenRoads. What they do is genarating a solid from the exi...
11 months ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Export DWG special mode for sheets and deliverables

ArchiCAD, Sketchup and Revit have a very nice workflow for creating DWG deliverables. Basically, the software merge all the viewports in the model like an array and then creates a viewport of each in the sheet. They also dumb down all the smart ci...
11 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 2 Future consideration

Remove 2gb limit when creating Terrains from PointClouds

When creating a terrain from PointClouds, an intermediate XYZ file is created of the extracted PointCloud points before the filter option is applied. While a very large XYZ file can be created quite quickly (current dataset has created 10gb+ XYZ f...
almost 2 years ago in Terrain 2 Future consideration

Folders for Cant Tables

In order to use Cant Tables, a significant number of Cant Tables need to be created. As such, the ability to organize the tables into folders within the DGNLIB is needed.
about 2 years ago in CANT / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Define Template Library Name and Location from Workset creation

Add capability to define Template Libray's Name and Location through Workset creation. See attached image. This information could be populate Workset.cfg file.
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Workspace 0 Future consideration

spiral-spiral curves

The program does not allow making spiral curves where the circular curve is zero
5 months ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

annotate cut and fill sections in plan view

this would allow for automated text to get placed for cut and fill sections to denote which areas are which. This would assist with meeting SCDOT requirements. Previously, this could be accomplished in PowerGEOPAK with a SCDOT VBA.
11 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 1 Future consideration

Add an automated slider button for the object spacing box.

For newer users a quick design option in the (Object Spacing box) for simpler signs would be great. We typically space lines of text using 1/2 to 3/4 of the text height used. If the program could do this automatically with a slider button that sho...
11 months ago in OpenRoads SignCAD / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Edit snap rules and constraints

Constructing horizontal or vertical geometry tangents with endpoint snap rule enabled creates a one-way relationship only allows editing from one direction. In contrast, MicroStation constraints allow for two way editing. For example the coinciden...
about 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Show Prestressing Strands from Analytics in Concrete Beams

Useful to see the prestressing strands from the design products (LEAP & RM) back in OBM
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Future consideration