OpenRail Designer CONNECT Edition 2018 R2 Update 4

The Bentley product team are pleased to announce the availability of OpenRail Designer CONNECT Edition 2018 R2 Update 4 (version 10.04.00.48), the successor to Bentley’s industry leading rail design brands Bentley Rail Track, Power Rail Track, and Power Rail Track Overhead Line.

What's new in OpenRail Designer CONNECT Edition 2018 R2 Update 4 (version 10.04.00.48):

The following summarizes the new features and enhancements in this release.

- Template improvements
- Circular elements
- Fillet definitions in component
- Create voids
- Import template from graphics
- Additional cubic parabola definitions
- Turnout properties
- Turnout annotation
- Rail object in the project explorer
- Improved cant calculation
- Existing cant display on curvature diagram
- Existing cant display on cant diagram
- Rail placement performance improvements
- Sleeper placement improvements



About OpenRail Designer. OpenRail Designer introduces a new, comprehensive modeling environment for streamlined project delivery of rail network assets. This environment unifies design and construction from concept through commissioning and completion. The application delivers a high performance, immersive, 3D modeling environment that enables instantaneous and interactive parametric modeling of rail corridors.
OpenRail Designer provides modeling and design capabilities for metro, light rail, commuter rail, or high-speed rail design projects. You can save time on the design and maintenance of track, station, and yard design, as well as overhead line electrification (OLE), while significantly increasing productivity.

- Bring real-world settings to your project by gathering context data quickly from a variety of sources, such as point clouds, 3D reality meshes, terrain data, images, and geospatial information.
- Enable project information sharing across teams, locations, and disciplines with precision and security.
- Perform regression analysis, horizontal and vertical alignment, cant design, and turnout placement to international standards.
- Design OLE systems with customizable design standards and 3D modeling of wires and structures.
- Improve asset quality and reduce rework with a fully localized application.
- Share realistic visualizations with the public and stakeholders to gather feedback, improve public engagements, and speed project approvals.

About OpenRail CONNECT Edition. OpenRail Designer CONNECT Edition is a comprehensive, multi-discipline 3D modeling application to advance the delivery of rail network projects from planning through performance. This new application handles a wide variety of complex tasks such as regression analysis, cant (rail Superelevation) calculations, turnout and switch placement, yard and station design, site development, road design, tunnels, sanitary and stormwater network design, overhead line electrification (future release) and production of construction deliverables.

Below are highlights of the capabilities of OpenRail Designer CONNECT edition:

Progressive Conceptual Design. Users can directly progress conceptual designs created with OpenRail ConceptStation, preserving all work and data. OpenRail ConceptStation enables rapid conceptual and preliminary design, leveraging existing context captured through reality meshes, point clouds, GIS, and other sources, and creating compelling presentations with engineering precision.

- Comprehensive Rail Track Design. OpenRail Designer is a complete rail design application that enables users to create intelligent geometric and 3D models containing track information, terrain data, turnouts, crossings, dynamic regression, speed tables, cant, sleeper placement, ballast, sub-ballast, tunnels, signals, and related site features.
- Design Rail Overhead Line System. Use local standards and geometry of the underlying track to make span calculations, locate foundation locations, and calculate height and stagger values for your wire runs. Parametric design capabilities enable modeling of cantilever sets, masts, and portals. Produce schematics and 3D models of your OLE system. (available in future release)
- Multi-discipline Support. OpenRail Designer integrates support for each discipline with specific user profiles dedicated to each discipline. Users can switch discipline perspectives, for instance from Rail Design profile to Subsurface Utility profile.
- Reality Modeling Tools. OpenRail Designer includes a fully-functioned toolset to incorporate and edit all reality modeling data types, including the capability to extract ground-level features from reality meshes and LiDAR, as well as to reference point clouds and imagery.
- Geotechnical Tools. Connect directly to gINT geotechnical databases to incorporate subsurface terrain details into their models for improving grading and piling. Subsurface terrains can be generated or modeled based on the bore hole materials and projected in road, rail, and drainage profiles, sections, and plans.
- Subsurface Utilities. Users can select from a large catalog of functional components for utility and drainage to model underground drainage and utility networks. Drainage models can be optimized for water flow using integrated water analysis tools, with results available in data tables or visually in a profile view.
- Rich Deliverables. An expanded set of deliverables range from traditional plan sets and animations to digital construction models—for automated machine control and field positioning systems including for excavation, grading, and piling.
- Live Plan Generation. Plan generation is no longer a separate process limited to a point in time. Settings and annotations are dynamically updated and live in the model. Views are saved with specific display rules and sheet index embedded, making it easy to navigate between model and drawings. Up-to-date drawings can be generated automatically at any time, creating a natural and fluid design environment for both modeling and detailing.
- Enlivened Visualization. OpenRail Designer provides direct integration to Bentley LumenRT for producing cinematic visualization, adding vegetation, reflecting nature and climate.

About Bentley Systems, Incorporated. Bentley Systems is a global leader in providing architects, engineers, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators with comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure. Bentley users leverage information mobility across disciplines and throughout the infrastructure lifecycle to deliver better-performing projects and assets. Bentley solutions encompass MicroStation applications for information modeling, ProjectWise collaboration services to deliver integrated projects, and AssetWise operations services to achieve intelligent infrastructure – complemented by worldwide professional services and comprehensive managed services.

Founded in 1984, Bentley has more than 3,000 colleagues in over 50 countries, more than $600 million in annual revenues, and since 2009 has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions.

Product: OpenRail Designer
Version: CONNECT Edition 2018 R2 Update 4 (version 10.04.00.48)
Supported Architectures: x64
Website Home Page : www.bentley.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even or newer
Size: 2.7 Gb