I am using Power Rail Track SS10 and the civil tool commands shown below
1) Import geometry from .alg (do not create civil rules)
2) The centreline geometry is imported (also gets opened in power rail with associated vertical/cant)
3) As a test, I am using the software default platform edge corridor templates (vector offsets from plane of rail/cant)
When using the template and imported geometry, the resulting 3D linear objects are not created with the correct X&Y platform dimensions as constrained in the template. In some cases it can be +/-100mm. The imported geometry has an active vertical profile and cant. The linear template drop cant seem to process the geometry.
Is there any way to create accurate 3d geometry (offset X&Y co-planar to rails) whilst taking into consideration changing design cant/super elevation?
Thanks
Did you add a cant point control to the corridor using cant alignment and points L Cant, CL Cant and R Cant ?
Hi Thanks for the reply, Yes I created a corridor and assigned point controls.
To do this without a corridor (just linear templates) doesn't seem to be possible in PowerRail. I think it is different in open rail.
It should work in SS10 as it does in OpenRail
However, if you want to create something really accurate in 3D, use the view geometry to create rails in 3D (the create rails command in OpenRail).Then use this 3D rail as point control in the corridor or linear template.
The cant control in a corridor just raises the rail and do not change horizontal location unless you create an advanced template to deal with left and right curve and use rotation (angle distance) constraint.