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..
1) 40 second work in BRT
2) Alternative solution
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Hi Petr,
There is a tool in ORD - Geometry Connector.
It looks pretty much like Multiple Regression in BRT.
The only spiral type available there is Clothoid, but maybe it can work for you.
Regards,
Alexandra
The tool uses the spiral type selected in the Design File Settings, so it can work with any selected type, not restricted to Clothoid.
I have NSW Cubic Porabola in the settings, but clothoid in Geometry Builder. And the drop down menu is inactive - I can't change clothoid to anything else.
Hi Kivanc,
any further comments?
Sorry I was on leave. I see the confusion, the interface does not display the selected type, this we can fix (actually it should have been fixed already for the next release). But it will still create the geometry using the selected spiral type. Just create one and then check the properties of the created geometry, you will see it has the NSW type spirals.
Hi kivanc, it doesn't work. It creates Clothoid.