Description
Perform conceptual rail designs during the preliminary and planning design stages
OpenRail ConceptStation is a conceptual rail design software that allows you to rapidly create conceptual designs during the preliminary and planning design stages of your rail network projects. The software lets you quickly jump-start your project, improve the decision-making process, and eliminate high-cost and high-risk items. With rail, electrification, tunnel, and bridge design capabilities, you can create intelligent models in context and evaluate your conceptual design options with real-world data and cost analysis to rapidly determine optimal designs.
Add digital contextual and render in real-time with cinematic quality
You can incorporate contextual information including reality meshes and model in a real-world setting when you locate and download data-rich context information. Quickly import data from your GIS to create intelligent 3D models letting you jump-start your conceptual design process. You can easily use 3D output from Bentley’s reality modeling software, ContextCapture, to model in a real-world setting. Add data you already have such as GIS and DGN to get more detail in your 3D models. Then create stunning photo-realistic visualizations in seconds using dynamic immersive visualization engine platform providing natural looking light and shadows, real-time global illumination, IES point and spotlights, lens flares, and luminous materials. Interactively adjust time of day, add lens flares, and apply depth of field while benefiting from highly accurate reflections, anti-aliasing, and motion blur.
Layout conceptual track designs
Design your railway with object-oriented capabilities to create track geometry for mainline, yards, stations, and sidings. Add turnouts, crossovers, and other furniture in hours not days using engineering-friendly design capabilities, all while adhering to industry design standards. And evaluate viable track alternatives by creating multiple design scenarios with associated costs to make better decision and optimize rail, electrification, tunnel, and bridge designs to address criteria such as clearances and cost assessment for each concept. Quickly load your historical bid tabulations to ensure realistic cost information to help determine the best alternative to move forward into detailed design.
Design electrification systems
You can adhere to industry design standards and enhance your conceptual track designs with overhead line electrification systems from libraries of masts and portals catering for single and double cantilevers and wire runs with stagger and overlaps.
Technical Capabilities
Design Track Geometry
- Place tracks
- Follows rail standards; class, design speed, default curve radius, transition lengths
- Automatic cant application (cant equation)
- Best fit existing ground vertically or create a straight vertical alignment
- Template (typical cross-section) based approach
- Named tracks
- Place multitracks
- Select different templates
- Input offset between track
- Tracks work together, any edit done to main geometry updates the tracks
- Track geometries can also be individually modified
- Editing of horizontal alignment
- Insert PI, delete PI, move PI
- Edit curve radius graphically or precisely using heads-up text editing
- Editing of vertical alignment
- Insert PVI, Delete PVI, Move PVI
- Edit vertical curve length and slope graphically or precisely using heads-up text editing
- Template drop editing
- Easy editing of template drops and stationing
Design Yard/Station Areas
- Yard placement tool to create level ground elevations
- Select different templates with different widths
- Create offset geometries
- User defined offset values, follow vertical geometry
- Precise turnout definitions
- Extensive turnout library
- Crossing angles and defined turnout geometries
- Does not allow creation of arbitrary geometries
- Modify turnout locations
- Automatic snapping, horizontally and vertically
- Snapping to turnout geometries
- Snapping to end of track geometries
- Fit turnouts
- Fit turnouts to geometry intersections
- Creates precise turnouts, does not allow creation of arbitrary geometries
- Create crossovers
- Automatic placement of turnouts
- Separate start and end turnout definitions
Design Overhead Line Systems
- Place masts
- Mast placement based on design standards
- User-selected offset values
- Span lengths are based on horizontal curvature and design tables
- Place portals
- Portal placement based on design standards
- Tracks that will be electrified can be selected
- Automatic placement of cantilevers based on track geometries
- Create cantilevers
- Single and double cantilevers
- Automatic selection of push-pull configuration based on geometry and offset
- Create Wires
- Automatic wire creation
- Catenary, contact, and dropper wires
- Library-based encumbrance and stagger values
- Overlaps
- Maximum wire length input, automatic creation of wire overlaps
- Different overlap definitions for straight and curved sections
- Library based overlap definitions
- Manual overlap placement and removal
- Edit overhead line items
- Change offset and station of the masts and portals
- Change the selected mast and cantilever definition, push-pull configuration
- Automatic update of structures upon geometry modifications
Place Rail Signals
- Place railway signals using provided library
System Requirements
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR 32-BIT AND 64-BIT INSTALLS
Processor: Intel or AMD based at 1.0 GHz
Operating System: 64-bit operating system running Windows 10 or Windows 11
RAM: 4 GB+
Hard Drive Available Capacity: 2 GB (approximately 580 MB used when installed)
Video Card: Support for OpenGL 2.0
Monitor: 10” monitor for tablet PC, 15” for laptop PC, or 17” for desktop PC
SUGGESTED REQUIREMENTS FOR 32-BIT AND 64-BIT INSTALLS
Processor: Dual or Quad-Core Intel or AMD, such as Intel Core i7 Processor
Operating System: 4-bit operating system running Windows 10 or Windows 11
RAM: 8 GB+
Hard Drive Available Capacity: 10 GB (approximately 580 MB used when installed)
Video Card: Dedicated video card with support for OpenGL 2.0
Monitor: 10” monitor for tablet PC, 15” for laptop PC, or 19” for desktop PC
