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Need to annotate partial alignment lengths along turnout from point of switch to start/end

Users need a way to annotate the same way SS2 would annotate with the Switch Height Plan command. Partial lengths along the alignment need to be annotated, but there is not a way to do this in OpenRail. The workaround is to create a dummy alignmen...
9 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review

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.
almost 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.
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Future consideration

Plan annotation based on element length

A feature to define within the Annotation Group for plan alignment annotation and vary the text favourite used based on element length. For example, I would like to use a text favourite with transition geometry text on 1 line for elements greater ...
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 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...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Terrain 8 Future consideration

Ability to turn off Mesh (components) in reference files

There should be a way to turn off Mesh (components) in reference files. Currently, if you untick the "Mesh" Feature Definition from ORD Standards in explorer, it only turns off Mesh Components within the active model. The Mesh components that use ...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Named Boundary tool should respect leading zeroes

It seems a fairly simple thing and would help in general organization of Named Boundaries and indivicual sheets that are created from them. Most users are trained to use leading zeroes in the naming of various items and yet this tool does not reco...
10 months ago in Drawing Production 1 Future consideration

Ability to Report on and See Superelevation Info When Referenced

I would like to see the following capabilities added for use when a superelevation file is attached as a reference: The ability to generate a superelevation report. The ability to see the control lines (obviously read-only). Basically, it would be...
over 1 year ago in Superelevation 1 Already exists

Automatic/batch update of Profile 3D cut

This won't update immediatly when the 3D model is updated. This means that when going to plan production, all profiles needs to be refreshed.
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 3 Future consideration

Element Annotation - Add view horizontal

Add in the ability place element annotation at view horizontal
10 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Future consideration