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Drainage and Utilities

Ability to add lines and points to drainage cells (2D/3D)

Revised Justification for DU Cell Enhancements If Drainage and Utility (DU) cells could incorporate linear and point features, these elements could be utilized as break lines within graphical filters for terrain modeling. Additionally, such featur...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

GEOPAK Drainage gave you inlet calcs after you placed an inlet and assigned a catchment without having to run a scenario. We need this functionality in ORD

In Geopak Drainage, once you place a node and attached a catchment, you were able to see inlet calculations. This let the user know if they needed to shift the box to have an allowable spread. It would be great if we could get that feedback withou...
8 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Planned

Need to be able to read the GEOPAK Drainage binary file and export to a spreadsheet – without having GEOPAK installed or running

Geopak is no longer supported by Bentley. At some point, Geopak will not be installed on our machines, but we may need to get the calculations that reside in the GDF file. We need a method that will allow us to extract the information we need from...
8 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / Import/Export / OpenRoads Designer Planned

Allow Annotation group 'label' settings to work with D&U

A new annotation filter setting (Label) was introduced in OpenRoads 2025. This setting works well to place callouts for corridor components, however when drainage/utility features are selected, we run into issues as shown below. The callout does n...
4 months ago in Annotation / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration
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Open API to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies.

It would be extremely helpful, if we were able to programmatically create Feature Definitions and Feature Symbologies so that automation of the creation of new 'Custom Drainage Features' every time a drainage structure had a different bottom box (...
about 3 years ago in All Other / Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration

OpenRoads/FlowMaster Calculation and Annotation

PowerInroads used to have a built in calculator/analyzer. It helped us to quickly calculate the drainage pipe information, minimum slope and velocity at full value etc. Currently to get the data, we use Flow Masters and manually calculate each pip...
5 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Parametric capability for the placement of Node and Conduit feature definitions

This would dramatically reduce the requirement for a vast number of library cells and feature definitions to be created
over 3 years ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRail Designer / OpenRoads Designer / OpenSite Designer Future consideration

Generate maximum spread width polygons along gutters when running unsteady-state analysis

https://openflows.ideas.aha.io/ideas/SWRG-I-142(https://openflows.ideas.aha.io/ideas/SWRG-I-62) ORD users running an unsteady-state analysis with the CivilStorm license would like a way to display maximum spread width polygons along their gutters.
15 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Generate maximum HGL and EGL line of profile run when running unsteady-state analysis

https://openflows.ideas.aha.io/ideas/SWRG-I-141 ORD users running an unsteady-state anlysis with the CivilStorm license would like a way to display a maximum hydraulic grade line and maximum energy grade line to their profile runs for inclusion on...
15 days ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration

Tool for moving multiple nodes at the same time

A tool to move multiple nodes at the same time is needed in ORD as such tool or functionality was not observed with ORD. This is helpful for situations where the nodes will be offset by a certain distance due to the buildings or other constraints ...
3 months ago in Drainage and Utilities / OpenRoads Designer Future consideration