OpenRail Designer CONNECT Edition - Available Now

 

We are pleased to announce the availability of OpenRail Designer CONNECT Edition, the successor to Bentley’s industry leading rail design brands Bentley Rail Track, Power Rail Track, and Power Rail Track Overhead Line. OpenRail Designer is a comprehensive, multi-discipline 3D modeling application to advance the delivery of rail network projects from planning through performance. This new application handles a wide variety of complex tasks such as regression analysis, cant (rail Superelevation) calculations, turnout and switch placement, yard and station design, site development, road design, tunnels, sanitary and stormwater network design, overhead line electrification (future release) and production of construction deliverables.

 

Highlighted Capabilities

Below are highlights of the capabilities of OpenRail Designer CONNECT edition. For a complete list of features and capabilities, access the Read Me file under the Supporting Materials section.

 

 

 

 

•   Progressive Conceptual Design. Users can directly progress conceptual designs created with OpenRail ConceptStation, preserving all work and data. OpenRail ConceptStation enables rapid conceptual and preliminary design, leveraging existing context captured through reality meshes, point clouds, GIS, and other sources, and creating compelling presentations with engineering precision.

•   Comprehensive Rail Track  Design. OpenRail Designer is a complete rail design application that enables users to create intelligent geometric and 3D models containing track information, terrain data, turnouts, crossings, dynamic regression, speed tables, cant, sleeper placement, ballast, sub-ballast, tunnels, signals, and related site features.

•   Design Rail Overhead Line System. Use local standards and geometry of the underlying track to make span calculations, locate foundation locations, and calculate height and stagger values for your wire runs. Parametric design capabilities enable modeling of cantilever sets, masts, and portals. Produce schematics and 3D models of your OLE system. (available in future release)

•   Multi-discipline Support. OpenRail  Designer integrates support for each discipline with specific user profiles dedicated to each discipline. Users can switch discipline perspectives, for instance from Rail Design profile to Subsurface Utility profile.

•   Reality Modeling Tools. OpenRail  Designer includes a fully-functioned toolset to incorporate and edit all reality modeling data types, including the capability to extract ground-level features from reality meshes and LiDAR, as well as to reference point clouds and imagery.

•   Geotechnical Tools. Connect directly to gINT geotechnical databases to incorporate subsurface terrain details into their models for improving grading and piling. Subsurface terrains can be generated or modeled based on the bore hole materials and projected in road, rail, and drainage profiles, sections, and plans.

•   Subsurface Utilities. Users can select from a large catalog of functional components for utility and drainage to model underground drainage and utility networks. Drainage models can be optimized for water flow using integrated water analysis tools, with results available in data tables or visually in a profile view.

•   Rich Deliverables. An expanded set of deliverables range from traditional plan sets and animations to digital construction models—for automated machine control and field positioning systems including for excavation, grading, and piling.

•   Live Plan Generation. Plan generation is no longer a separate process limited to a point in time. Settings and annotations are dynamically updated and live in the model. Views are saved with specific display rules and sheet index embedded, making it easy to navigate between model and drawings. Up-to-date drawings can be generated automatically at any time, creating a natural and fluid design environment for both modeling and detailing.

•   Enlivened Visualization. OpenRail  Designer provides direct integration to Bentley LumenRT for producing cinematic visualization, adding vegetation, reflecting nature and climate.

 

 

Supporting Materials

To learn more about this release and for supporting materials, access the links below:

 ·          Web Page

 ·          Read Me

·           Quick Start Guide