Hello colleagues,At my company, I am trying to persuade the company's management to move from Autodesk to Bentley (and bring you more then 200 new licenses). Unfortunately, the new OpenRail Designer 2020 Release 2 gives me almost no trumps in my hand. After all, you made a copy of Autocad Civil from that great software (BRT). It's a huge pity. At the same time, you have eliminated perhaps the biggest advantage of BRT, namely Multiple Regression Analysis. The thing that designers in my area use every day and go to do almost miracles with it and even after more than two years, you are not able to implement it.
How would you create this easy (in BRT) example in OpenRail Designer? Please can you show me?1) I have two tangents and I want to place between them: Spiral (length 52m) - Circural (radius 480m) - Circural (radius 480m) - Spiral (length 52m). Lengths of Circulars are free..2) I have two fixed tangents and I want to place between them: Spiral (length 52m) - Circural (radius 480m) - Circural (free) - Spiral (length 52m). Lengths of Circulars are free..3) I have two fixed tangents and I want to place between them: Spiral (length 52m) - Circural (radius 480m) - Circural (radius 500m) - Circural (radius 480m) - Spiral (length 52m). Lengths of Circulars are free..4) I have two tangents (first fixed length) and I want to place between them: Spiral (length 52m) - Circural (radius 480m) - Spiral (length 40m) -Circural (radius 500m) - Spiral (length 52m). Lengths of Circulars are free..
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Hello Petr,
Just a comment regarding your post.
The "Regression Analysis" in InRail / RailTrack was the most unique piece of tool in all railway design software I know. It was a collaboration between Bentley (at the time Intergraph) and a series of European railway companies. I remember the visits from the development-teams when I was working for Danish State Railway (DSB). I'm convinced that was one of the reasons, the product was so widely used and appreciated among railway-designers in the world.
I think it's a real shame that this "tradition" - working closely with users/clients for development is down prioritized and for the ORD we only get what the Bentley developers think is best for us, but not what we really need/wished and how we are working everyday in our job.
Best regards,
LiPeng
Hello LiPeng;This is a fair assessment, thank you and we want to improve on this. Actually collected a fair bit of feedback about regression, and will be implementing many of these in the next release. You can also directly reach to me for your further feedback (kivanc.karakas@bentley.com).
Regards;
Kivanc
Thank you for your response, Kivanc!