Open Rail Designer - Freezes

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Hi, 
 I&rsquo;ve recently installed Open Rail Designer (version 10.06.00.38), but it is very hard to use it because freeze very often. Even on simple task like draw a line it can freeze for 10min. Does anyone know what may cause this. Any ideas to solve the problem. I&rsquo;ve run ORD on Windows 7 sp1 64. 
 Thanks & Regards 
 Jakub

jpln · Answer

I understand your feeling. However one answer to what and who developers have been catering to is users and market. Users want only DGN, graphics and dynamic update. No more files to manage dtm, alg, ird, ... Everything must be live. 
 It means more interactions with graphics so graphic card is important. Sometime hardware is also involved in crashes. As an example, I (and user) experienced issue on Lenovo we don't have on HP and DELL (same files, same software). It also required more RAM especially with x64 OS. I would say that 32go is more likely to be the minimum than 16go 
 However my Lenovo is running quite well today and I don't experience so many crashes. 
 You may decrease the number of crashes by taking care of few things: 
 
 file and reference management: reference and set active terrain model in the 2D model 
 let OpenRail/Road create and manage the 3D model. 
 turn off 3D model display in 2D model to avoid superimposed elements. Most of the time you don't need it to design. 
 try to limit nesting with civil dgn. Example: corridor is referencing alignment no nesting, terrain is referenced by its own. If you reference civil dgn that have both 2D and 3D model, be sure the current DGN has 2D and 3D models and reference civil dgn in the 2D. The 3D will be automatically attached to the 3D 
 turn off accusnap, when not used, as it is additional interaction with graphics (you can activate on demand by CTRL+SHIFT)

jpln · Answer

I do agree that some "hidden" key-in can make us very frustrated as missed useful tools. There are probably few but most of the key-ins are commands available from UI. I didn't find a list of key-ins with description. However, the key-in dialog/browser displays all the key-ins with expansion. You can also filter by categories. 
 corridor attach is present on the OpenRail ribbon. 
 You can copy Feature Definition from a dgnlib to another. 
 
 Open the dgnlib using a project that is configured with the dgnlib you want to copy from 
 Open Project Explorer>Civil Standards 
 Browser the dgnlib you want to copy from 
 Right click the feature(s) definition(s) you want to copy You can copy features definitions but not a category (folder). A bit of restriction. 
 
 You can do the same process for Element Templates. But you can also export Element Templates to a XML you can import in another file. 
 These actions by themselves don't have any direct interaction with Managed Workspace. However is the Dgnlibs you want to edit come from a managed workspace you will have to open the dgnlib from PW to check it out. 
 Unfortunately SS4 and even more OpenRail are fully based on MicroStation. So you will have to get into "MicroStation" configuration step by step as you want to configure OpenRail. It is really well organized and homogeneous. And powerful. And not so difficult. But I do agree that it is probably not your job. As always, alone clever men are to do everything 
 I would encourage you to try and practice a little bit Accudraw (Civilaccudraw OFF) and Civilaccudraw (Accudraw OFF). Useful tools. More adaptive than a dialog box. Still some few behavior issue in SS4 but good in OpenRail.

jpln · Answer

In rail track ss4 there is no button for corridor reattach. It comes in OpenRoads/OpenRail 
 Accudraw and Civil Accudraw are just there to do point selection nothing else. 
 How to use Rail Track SS4 without a least a DGNLIB that contains feature definition ?

Kivanch · Answer

Hello; 
 I am the product manager for OpenRail Designer. I am also a design engineer and used/trained on Bentley Rail Track and before that on InRail for years, so I think I can understand your problems. Especially, you are right about saying we did not have much interaction during development with our US based rail users. But I am very willing to fix this. You can reach me using my e-mail (kivanc.karakas@bentley.com) and maybe we can set up a call to have a start. I am writing this as a reply to all users (or viewers) in this threat not only to original poster. 
 Kivanc

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