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Am looking for some information on what kind of report to use or even help with developing a stylesheet in PRT SS2.
My goal is to be able to generate a report for horizontal and vertical offsets between a datum track with applied cant, and a second track, measured parallel plane of the rail at 10m intervals.
I know that Clearance Report gives horizontal and vertical offsets from a canted datum alignment in plane of rail in the “Clearance to Track Plane Report. If use Geometry – View Geometry Rails and append 3D rails to surface and report clearance to this surface rail feature, I can get the Clearance to Track Plane to Feature with offsets similar to what I expect. What I don’t know is how PRT gets these values, as they do not match 100% with my own calcs.
My Project Defaults has Inside to Inside Rail Distance as 1.435m and Centreline Rail to Centreline Rail at 1.505m.
If I use a datum alignment with 120mm applied cant that is 1000mm below a second alignment with zero cant with CL to CL of 3405mm, the software spits out a value of 723mm as the in plane difference.
I calculate it as (120/1505) * (3405) =271mm, which gives a value of 728mm below the second alignment. In this case it is only 5mm, but I am using the same information that I have given the software.
Can anyone help?
I did some investigation and it is unclear on how the offsets are calculated. I will contact developers to find an answer.
Thanks very much jpln.
Would be very keen to get this to work correctly, as being able to report this would be very useful, as our construction standards indicate a maximum value in plane of 1 datum track that 2nd adjacent track can be positioned