I recently had OpenRail Designer CE 2021 Release 1 installed and noticed that the _Civil Default Standards - Metric configuration is lacking in design files for rail. There are road design files, such as the AASHTO Design Standards 2018 - Metric.dgnlib and Speed Table Road Definitions.xml, but not all the necessary design files for rail. I do realize that design is dependent on what part of the world, whether it is light or heavy rail, etc. but providing at least the AREMA design standards as a base that we can copy and edit would be a great improvement on what is currently provided.
Yes, I did scan the Bentley community and searched Google to see if I could find rail design files floating around somewhere on the internet, but no luck so far, only a mention of Turnouts-AREMA.xml on this thread: communities.bentley.com/.../cn-rail-standard-turnout-library
There is no dataset specific to rail except turnout libraries from all around the world included in the delivered organization civil folder.
Some few exceptions: you can download Australia dataset, Singapore, China.
We are working on one for UK.
One is also in used in France for SNCF but not available from download center.
OpenRail Design standards are limited to some road equations or tables to define radius and transitions. So could be done for rail even not something widely used from my experience. Drawing annotations (plan, profile, maybe cross section) is what can be customized and should be customized for each authority.As you say, something that is still missing for AREMA. I will check for any initiative there.
Maybe you can use some of the Danish standards?
DK_Rail_Std.Zip attached.DK_Rail_Std.zip
Hi Marianne,
Thank you for these! It's so much easier to get my mind around being able to make a copy then modify what you have rather than try to modify the road equivalents of these files
You're welcome. :-)