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Ability to Annotate Horizontal Curve Design Speed in plan annotation using a Text Favorite.

In OpenRoads Designer, Currently we can not annotate horizontal curve Design Speed in plan annotation. This can be done in OpenRail Designer after creating a cant. But In OpenRoads Designer there is no way to annotate design speed in plan using te...
about 2 years ago in Annotation 0 Future consideration

Contact (3rd) Rail tools

It would be great to have a set of tools to model a contact (third) rail - this is used by many transit systems as a traction power source for trains. There are enough nuances to the design of this rail that it warrants a dedicated tool with the a...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Apply an Annotation Group to multiple named boundaries at a time

In cross section creation it would be helpful to batch select a group of drawing models to apply a specific annotation group to (after drawing models are created from named boundaries). For example, we usually have driveway cross sections or half ...
about 2 years ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Future consideration

Need "Empty Terrain" option

Currently there isn't a way to view contents of a terrain. This makes it very difficult to replace or remove data. There is a remove feature tool but you have to know which features are in a terrain to remove them. I am proposing an empty terrain ...
11 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 0 Future consideration

Key Station with civil rule

Key stations can now solely be places with a station input. In many cases the location of your Key Stations depends on the position of other elements, like geometry for example. Being able to give key stations a civil rule - like the Persist Snap ...
almost 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 3 Already exists

3D Clip in Corridor Clip

Very useful in Rock Tunnel Connections, It should work similar to Mesh Subtract in MicroStation, but should be a part of the Corridor information, like todays Corridor Clip is.
about 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 4 Future consideration

Text Favorite Attribute Pair Field Settings for Survey Points/Lines

Field Sub Types in the Text Favorite Manager for Survey Point and Linear features do not seem to have the option for prefixes or suffixes. This would be handy. I have attached a video.
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Terrain Display Option/Creation without Facet Smoothing

The way Openroads currently displays terrain models is not very defined. We need to have the option to create terrains without the use of Facet Smoothing so they will display similar to how InRoads does. I've attached a sample of an InRoads Terrai...
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 8 Future consideration

Ability to control the cl profile (in a template/corridor) by vector offset method from adjacent corridors on either side.

I would like to control the elevation of my centerline point (point in template) to be controlled by a "vector offset method" by selecting to points (corridor feature) in two corridors that running parallel.
6 months ago in Modeling / OpenRoads Designer 5 Already exists

Add Profile Feature Symbology for Turnouts

Users need the ability to specify different element templates for profile symbology of turnouts. Some rail clients in North America are using custom line styles for their turnouts. These custom line styles need to be different in the profile view,...
11 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Future consideration