Can I perform in OpenRail full design for Highway/Roadway (alignments, profiles, x-sections) and the highway designer will be able to modify/refine my files and give me back to continue design? Do the company need to have two separate ORD and OpenRail licenses to perform Rail design and be able to do design work back and forth with roadway design files? I'm a railroad designer and occasionally helping to my highway group and wondering if I have full capability to do roadway design too? Mark
Hi Mark, yes you can do everything using OpenRail. However, your colleagues using OpenRoads won't be able to edit your files because they will be recognized as OpenRail. Schema stored in the DGN is not the same. There is a tool to downgrade OpenRail to OpenRoads (versionchecker in installation folder).Maybe easier to have OpenRoads and OpenRail on the same computer and use the good one for the task so that DGNs can be directly opened by all of you.
You can use OpenRoads files and interact with objects in OpenRail but only trough references, so readonly.
Hi,
I got from Bentley representative video link below saying that with VersionChecker.exe we will be able to open and work in ORD with files developed in OpenRail if it's no rail items in it. Is it something new that can resolve the problem? My goal is to work with highway/roaday files in OpenRail. Thanks, Mark
https://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/w/road_and_site_design__wiki/40396/video-product-alignment-incompatible-civil-data
Yes that is the tool I was talking about to downgrade files. So yes you can, but your colleagues will have to downgrade the file if they want to edit them in OpenRoads.