As Open Roads continues to develop, I am going to assume that the subject tools will become unified and will no longer be different depending upon the Native Civil Software.
- Allow the creation of Sheet Layouts as part of the process. Currently, in InRoads, it must be done after the fact.
- Allow some type of character substitution in the file naming of the sheets and models generated. Many client naming conventions do not lend themselves to the way the files are named. And having to manually rename them every time you need to run this tool is not very productive.
- When there are clipping limits and the tool creates a shape as a "guide", have the software use the shape element as the clip boundary. This would allow manual modification of the clip and no extra steps would be needed to adjust the clip.
- When the profile needs to be shifted provide some method to move the elevation labels to avoid confusion, or to open a gap between the profiles. Our clients usually like those labels outside of the profile. But when two profiles get created back to back the labels for the left profile end up inside the right profile and the labels for the right profile end up inside the left profile.
- Have an options for cross sections to not shift each sheet to a new location. In InRoads, if you plot section sheets all in one model, they obviously have to get stacked horizontally or vertically. But when each sheet goes to its own sheet model, there is no reason to shift anything and it actually makes some things more difficult to accomplish.