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Reverse direction of an existing complex element

A tool to reverse the direction of an existing complex element. There is a workaround by complexing the complex element but not an ideal solution.
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 3 Already exists

Need a Text Favorite for Arc Chord Bearing

IDOT's Right-of-Way annotation requires the Chord Bearing as part of the annotation. When setting up annotations for the Civil Labeler, we found that an option for the chord bearing is currently not available as a Text Favorite when selecting Civi...
4 months ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 1 Already exists

Individually Define Maximum Spread

in Drainage and Utilities, remove the Maximum Spread (global for the dgn file) and make it editable for each individual node. Roadways have lots of different gutters etc so I don't want a max spread for the whole file, I want individually.
over 1 year ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Already exists

Open profile from profile view

While I am in a profile view, I would like to be able to open a new profile from a different horizontal without having to activate the 2D view. It is a small thing but would be nice.
almost 2 years ago in Geometry / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 4 Already exists

Ability to use Profile Named Boundaries across references

Currently in ORD 10.11, plan Named Boundaries can be utilized as a reference allowing a user to create drawing and sheet models from another .dgn file. However, this is not possible with profile Named Boundaries. Within the file where the user wis...
almost 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 0 Already exists

Clip Conduits (pipes) at inside edge of Drainage Structures and Report "True" Horizontal Lengths and Vertical Lengths in the Properties

This is more than useful; this is absolutely required. When laying out Drainage Networks, pipes need to be trimmed at the inside edge of the structures, and the "True" pipe lengths (horizontal & vertical) need to be provided in the properties....
5 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer 5 Already exists

Option to display all cross sections in one model

Our designers would still like to display all cross sections generated by the Drawing Production tools in one model so that the designer can analyze them as they wish in one view rather than looking at them sheet to sheet or drawing model to drawi...
over 2 years ago in Drawing Production / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 5 Already exists

Please fix the Standards in OpenRoads Designer Connect Edition to not copy to the individual dgn files in the project.

On very large projects with hundreds of people working on the project and you need to change a standard you should not have to go thru all of the dgns in the project to update or purge old standards. Most of the time the standards evolve as the pr...
about 2 years ago in OpenBridge Designer / OpenBridge Modeler / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / OpenTunnel Designer / Workspace 3 Already exists

feature definition - browser all element that used a specific feature definition

Get a list of elements using a specific feature definition. Similar to level usage. This "select by graphic filter" filter only feature type that compose a terrain model.
about 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 5 Already exists

Place a sanitary pipe that follows a terrain at a specific depth of cover.

It appears that the software currently doesn’t allow sanitary conduit FDs to follow a slope even when the FD is set to depth of cover. it would be nice to tell the program to follow a given depth under the terrain, so I can see the pipe slope vary...
11 months ago in Drainage and Utilities 9 Already exists