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Place 1 Cross Section per Sheet (or other predefined number of cross sections)

We want to place only one cross section per sheet so that once a pdf is created, the user can flip through the pdf pages quickly and each cross section appears in the same spot. We can sort of trick this by changing the spacing, but it would be mu...
7 months ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Staged Construction Optionality

Staged construction is a very common construction methodology. The current process of modeling staged construction in OBM is to model each stage as separate bridges. This creates problems when modeling a steel I-girder bridge as the cross-frames b...
9 months ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler 0 Needs review

Enhancement to Add a Selection Set Capability to the Graphics tool (Survey >> Field Book >> Import)

The Graphics tool (Survey >> Field Book >> Import) currently imports all the MicroStation features in the active .dgn to survey features. This idea is a request to enhance the Graphics tool (Survey >> Field Book >> Import) ...
3 days ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 0 Needs review

Exporting Field Book with Observational Data

I process survey data for the Maine Department of Transportation. We have been transitioning from InRoads to OpenRoads for about a year now and are currently using OpenRoads Designer 2023. Myself and others in the Department are seeing frequent co...
about 2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads ConceptStation / OpenSite Designer / Survey 1 Needs review

Anisotropic shell elements in RM Bridge

The implementation of FEM shell elements as a supplement to the beams in RM Bridge Enterprise, is a useful tool. Sometimes it will be useful to model the shell elements with different properties in the longitudinal direction compared to the transv...
2 months ago in OpenBridge Designer 0 Needs review

Feature Definition Dynamic Change Tool

A tool that would allow feature definitions to be changed similar to how a smart match and change element attributes tool works. There are times when we add a friction course and need to change multiple point feature definitions and the current wo...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Needs review

Cross Section View and elevation difference measurement tools

A way to better measure slope in cross section view, and elevation difference, that isn’t clunky. 
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Needs review

Intuitive ability to upsize a sheet border to scale vs scaling down to size

Currently everything is scaled down to the sheet size. Previously, we our borders were placed at the correct geolocation and manipulated, such that the design was in the correct place and the border was the item moving. Current system moves the de...
3 months ago in Drawing Production 0 Needs review

Update turnout library for concept station

Clearly, concept station has a lot of potential as a conceptualization tool. However, just as any other tool at its birth, has issues that needs to be adressed. I noticed that the turnout library for swedish turnouts is outdated: it does not have ...
3 months ago in OpenRail ConceptStation 0 Needs review

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...
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings 0 Needs review