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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

Civil Labeler - Attach Leader to Top Line

We typically show labels with the leader attached to the top line of multiline text. As far as we can tell, civil labeler can only place the label in the center of the text block. Image shows what we need.
over 1 year ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration

Productivity enhancements to Corridor Objects dialog

There are currently some things needed to be added to the Corridor Object dialog to help communicate design intent a bit better to users (especially with Parametric Constraints): The lack of information as to the rules linked to Parametric Constra...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer 1 Future consideration

Use Cells for creation of sleepers

Support use of cell definitions for sleeper placements. Long sleeper sets placed at turnout locations, have variable width so these will still be using existing box shaped sleepers but normal sleepers will be using the cell based definitions. This...
over 2 years ago in Modeling / OpenRail Designer 0 Future consideration

Draw Clear Zone Tool in Plan/3d

Draw Clear Zone tool in Plan/3D that reads from AASHTOW roadside design tables for offsets and slopes from the model.
over 1 year ago in Analytics / OpenRoads Designer 4 Future consideration

Update Element Information Description - ORD

Geometry>Standards>Set Element Information This tool seems to lend itself to recording and reviewing an alignment layout and design process and having it live in the dgn file vs an auxillary notepad or spreadsheet. As the design progresses i...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Re-word the Upgrade dialog to include that the file will also be 'aligned' to the product.

There are several ways a file can be opened though local access, networking, and ProjectWise. There is very minimal documentation available to explain to users the difference between Upgrading and Aligning a file. Not to mention how, when, and why...

Bring back the “NE=” key-in command.

U.S. surveyors traditionally work in Northing & Easting, in that order. When working with Microstation V8i, AND with Inroads loaded, the user could perform precision drafting by using the “NE= “ key-in to enter the exact northing/easting coord...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer / Survey 4 Future consideration

Retain or be able to re-associate references when "One DGN Per Sheet" used to facilitate ProjectWise Integration

Many companies/DOT's use ProjectWise Explorer Client which will apply attributes such as sheet number and total sheets to sheet models via tags. The only way to apply this on multiple sheets is to use the "One DGN Per Sheet" option. If a reference...

anno group/dim style for deed boundary labels

Hello- Deed Boundary tool should have the option of creating a dim style for arrows on the bearings and distances for a parcel. The text favorite will label it nicely, but it is an industry standard to show arrows to show where that bearing and di...
3 months ago in Annotation / OpenRoads Designer 0 Future consideration