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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Hi kivanc, it doesn't work. It creates Clothoid.
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,
this time I must be the developers advocate. Most of the time I also claim for more rail engineering
Developers hear and, most of the time, understand you (and me) with a little translation to developer language. However there is a huge range of expectations.
Market was and is requiring BIM capabilties. Even more Bentley is well engaged and do want to sustain iTwin.That is what is driving OpenRoads/OpenRail. development and others. We must sustain BIM and iTwin.It looks like we are doing quite well there but we do know we need to improve drawing deliverables (2D drawings and PDFs are still required) and other parts of the workflow.
We know as well that we have to fill gap with rail engineering. We are working on. Everything is a matter of priorities vs resources.And priorities varies between users and accounts, and even users within account. And we must add the same within Bentley.
I am looking forward next version with enhanced regression tools, vertical change in plan, turnout and cant annotation for few rail dedicated tools.All kind of things that could help moving from Rail Track SS2 to new generation of software that is designed to sustain projects globally.
Hi Petr,we are many in this forum who explained to the developers of bentley that they had a really great software PRT SS2 and they create this toy called ORD. unfortunately they don't want to understand. and it'is really wired that they not get that yet and they continue in the same path. in my company we still using PRT SS2 !!!
Hi Kivanc,
any further comments?