Vertical design process in OpenRail

James Ransome — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:59:31 GMT

Hi All,

It seems as though OpenRail has lost some functionality in vertical design process, I will explain below:

The way BRT did vertical design I could see all of my verticals, all at the same scale and all in the same window, do a bit of CAD to annotate cut in points or spot areas to keep lifts/lowers to a specific magnitude and maybe even reference in the horizontal beneath to make it easier to find features such as Bridges, Platforms, S&C etc.... However, in OpenRail this functionality seem to have been totally stripped out and replaced with something that seems similar to what MX offered users, with a single window that scales in and out uncontrollably and can't be married up with any other vertical or horizontal, it seems a very blinkered way of designing a vertical alignment.

Is anyone else finding the OpenRail vertical design process somewhat lacking when compared to BRT vertical design process or am I missing some functionality in OpenRail?

If other users are feeling that the OpenRail vertical design process could be improved then please post on here with your suggestions or experiences.

Regards

James

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