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Maintain Item Types when extracting drainage or utility model from survey graphics.

When using "Extract From Graphic" tool to create a drainage or utility model object, the extraction process fails to bring the Item Type from the source object (in this example a surveyed gas line), leading the user to reattach the Item Type to th...
4 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / Item Types / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Analyze point

It would be extremely useful to have Analyze Point on every tab by default. That tool gets utilized a lot to evaluate all kinds of civil geometry.
4 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Add Trailing Zeros Setting to Point Station

Need the ability to hide ".00" decimal for stationing using the trailing zeros setting. For example, station 100+00.00 would label 100+00. This is available for point offset and I've attached a screenshot of the settings needed.
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Future consideration

No subtraction of sleepers from ballast in corridor report

Corridor report does not subtract the volume of sleepers we added to the model from the ballast. I propose to add in the next version of ORD the possibility to subtract in the ballast the added sleepers.
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Reports 0 Future consideration

Best Match Field Code Option

In ORD 10.11 and beyond the Best Match Field Code Option is now a drop-down of the following: Match exact: Feature Must equal an Alpha Code, only exact matches. For example if there is a Feature Definition with Alpha Code set to AP (Asphalt Paveme...
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 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.
5 months ago in Geometry / OpenRoads Designer 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.
5 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" ...
5 months ago in Import/Export / OpenRoads ConceptStation 0 Future consideration

See added terrain features in the Properties or Explorer windows

When selecting a terrain, it would be useful to see all added terrain features in the Properties/Explorer windows
5 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration