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Turnouts/Crossings

Create a tool for parametric turnout tie placement, with specific ties and spacing

The idea is similar to parametric civil cell: we need a tool to place the ties along the turnout. The ties must be of different lengths, placed at different spacing, and must follow the alignments from and to specifically identified points. The ti...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings Needs review

Turnout profile elevation in reports

We need the ability to get the profile elevation from the turnout points to the turnout report.
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings Needs review

Enhancement::Additional Tool for Design of Cross over connection between Tangent & Canted Tracks

I suggest improvements to Bentley OpenRail Designer for handling Cross over connections in the following scenarios: Cross over Between Adjacent Tangent Tracks: Enable a simple geometric connection between two parallel tracks without the use of Geo...
almost 2 years ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings Needs review

Place snappable points at key turnout elements, i.e. PS (.1) and PITO (.0)

To comply with US railroads standards, we need to place agency-specific cells at the turnouts. The cells must snap to either PS (point .1) or PITO (point .0). Right now these points are not snappable, neither graphically identifiable which makes m...
2 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings Needs review

add the entry to turnout feature definition: from point .1 to point .0 as required by US and Canadian standards

In US and Canadian standards, the turnouts are defined from switch point, and the distance between point of switch ( .1) and PITO (intersection, as point .0) is the most critical distance. As right now, there is no prompt available in turnouts fea...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings Needs review

Adding variables toggle to turnout feature definition

Currently the turnout feature definition only supported non-US convention and methodology. It is only based on ratio which is not well suited for US and Canadian users. North American rail standards are based the actual frog and switch angles expr...
3 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings Needs review

Create Turnout Profile

Currently, the workflow to achieve this is in general case (including canted track) where profile = lower rail elevation is : Create lower rail of branch line: horizontal offset create rails on main: create rails command Extend slope defined by ma...
about 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings Needs review

Verify Turnout

Use the Geometry Connector with start and end elements chosen as turnouts. The converged result gives a disconnection between the regression alignment and the turnout. You can only discover it by zooming in to the closest possible view. A "Verify ...
over 1 year ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings Needs review

Include info about side/hand of turnout from the tip of the turnout (Point 1) looking towards the toe (point 2)

Especially in reports but also in models we need to add information about turnout type including a letter showing towards which side looking from point 1 towards point 2, the branch is oriented. As it is now turnouts with Leading orientation will ...
over 1 year ago in Turnouts/Crossings Needs review

Let properties show main track for turnouts

Please let the properties show which alignment a turnout is attached to. It is sometimes difficult to make sure on which alignment the turnout is placed on if the alignments are partly on top of each other.
6 months ago in OpenRail Designer / Turnouts/Crossings Needs review