- Redeem training credits for training or services of your choice
- Design and analyze rail corridors
- Design and place rail signals
- Outline rail track drainage systems
- Automate drawing production
OpenRail
Rail network conceptual design software
Including 3 training credits
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.
Assemble Context Data
- Import the following file types:
- Terrain Models (.DTM, .TIN)
- Raster DEM (.IMG, .DEM)
- Images (Ingr. TIFF / GEOTIFF (*.tif; *.tiff), Internet TIFF and TIFF64 (*.Itiff; *.itiff64), JPEG (*.Jpg; *.jpeg; *.jpe; *.jfif), JPEG 2000 (*.jp2; *.j2k; *.jpm), MrSID (*.sid), ERMapper Compressed Wavelets (*.ecw))
- GIS (SHP, Esri File Geodatabase, OpenStreetMap) can be mapped to ConceptStation objects and attributes
- Filter based on project extent, view, all, fence ?? DGN as read-only
- Reference Reality Meshes (.3MX) from Bentley?s ContextCapture
- Reality Data Services
- 3D data (Terrain, Imagery, Roads, Rail, Hydro, Buildings)
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
Design Bridges
- Place bridges
- Simple two clicks bridge placement
- Number of supports automatically determined from the bridge length
- Can set girder type, support type, abutment type, wing walls
- Can set bridge deck template
- Edit bridges
- Simple editing of Horizontal and Vertical
- Change girder type, support type, abutment type, wing walls
- Change number of spans/supports, number of girder
- Rotate supports, move/skew abutment
Design Tunnels
- Place tunnels
- Simple two-clicks tunnel placement, using 3D or profile view
- Tunnel template automatically determined from the track template
- Creates entrance and exit portals
- Edit tunnels
- Simple editing of horizontal and vertical
- Buffer lengths
- Portal grading and offset
Railway Template
- Create new template
- Easy component-based creation
- Ballast and rail components
- Component material determines quantities and cost
- Manage template
- Duplicate, delete, copy/paste, rename
- Modify template
- Save change as copy
- Modify the entire design
Estimate Cost and Quantities
- Project cost overview
- High level overall design cost
- Includes allowance by default
- Detailed quantities/cost, listing cost items, and associated quantities for rail track and overhead line equipment
- Cut, fill, and ballast quantities
- Tunnel length, volume, and bridge
- Masts, portals based on types
- Single and double cantilevers
- Wire quantities
Interoperability with Detailed Civil Design
- Export to OpenRail
- Export ALG, IRD, ITL, TIN
- Supports geometry, template, template drop transition
- Export CAD model
- 3D DGN model
Place City Furniture
- Place and edit guardrails
- Ability to choose what symbol to use
- Ability to set offset from alignment
- Ability to set angle from alignment
- Place and edit streetlights and other city furniture
- Ability to choose what symbol to use
- Ability to set offset from alignment
- Ability to set angle from alignment
Aerial Imageries
- Bing Map as images provider
Visualization
- Real-time rendering
- Automatic train animation
- Adding cars, people, trees
- Changing atmospheric conditions, time (day, night), seasons
- Output high-end images, videos, and LiveCube (LumenRT)
Processor
Intel Pentium-based or AMD Athlon-based processor 2.0 GHz or greater.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 10 x64, Windows 8, Windows 8 x 64
Memory
16 GB minimum (more memory typically results in better performance)
Disk Space
9 GB minimum free disk space (which includes the 5.6 GB install footprint for a complete installation)
Input Devices
Mouse or digitizing tablet (Digitizing tablet requires vendor-supplied WINTAB driver or Bentley?s Digitizer Tablet Interface, the latter included with OpenRoads Designer installation.)
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A Perpetual License is bought outright and owned indefinitely. You pay once, then pay an annual SELECT maintenance fee to keep your software updated and supported. It’s a shared network license, so it isn’t tied to one user.
An Annual Subscription is a 12-month subscription license you renew each year. It’s assigned to a named user and can be re-assigned every 30 days. Lower upfront cost, but access ends if you don’t renew.
In short: a Perpetual License is buying the software, while an Annual Subscription is renting access for the year.
It comes down to how long and how often you plan to use the software:
Choose an Annual Subscription if you want a lower upfront cost and no long-term commitment.
Choose a Perpetual License if you plan to use the software for many years. It is usually the cheapest option over the long run (around seven years or more).
Choose a Cloud Service Subscription if your usage is occasional or short-term and you want maximum flexibility. Keep in mind that CSS is charged at a premium rate, so it is not the most cost-effective choice if you use the same software regularly.
If you are not sure, just ask us. We will look at how your team works and recommend the option that saves you the most money.
It is simple and there is no disruption. Your software, your licenses, and your data all stay exactly as they are within your Bentley Account. The only thing that changes is who looks after you. CAD Journey can act as your dedicated partner for support, licenses, training, and advice. There is no cost and nothing changes.
Every license includes access to all the latest software features and updates, along with round-the-clock technical support. As a CAD Journey client, you also have our team of Bentley experts as your first point of contact for any question. Annual Subscriptions go a step further and include free one-on-one training and mentoring hours to help your team get up to speed.
Here is what to expect after you order:
1. Within 24 hours, your licenses are fulfilled and added to your account, ready to assign.
2. Within 48 hours, one of our Customer Success Managers reaches out to make sure you are set up and everything is working as it should.
From there, the main steps are registering each team member, assigning a license to each one, and having everyone install the software and sign in. We will walk you through all of it, or we can simply take care of the setup for you.
The CONNECTION Client is a small free app that sits on each user’s computer. Users sign in to it with their account, and that sign-in is what activates the software. It is also where users download updates and check which licenses they have. There are no activation keys or serial numbers to manage anymore, so signing in is all that is needed.
The administrator is the person who can manage users and assign licenses for your organization. You can also set up co-administrators so more than one person can help manage the account. This is useful if your IT team handles software, or if you want a backup for when the main administrator is away. We can help you set up the right people with the right access.
It depends on the license type:
– Annual Subscriptions are assigned to a named user, so you need one for each person who uses the software.
– Perpetual Licenses work as a shared pool, so they can be used across your team without being tied to one person.
If you are not sure how many licenses you need, we are happy to work it out with you.
Once users are registered your license administrator can begin assigning licenses.
1. Sign in to your license portal at connect.bentley.com.
2. Open the License Management area.
3. Choose the product and assign it to the user you want.
The user gets a confirmation email and can start using the software right away. If you get stuck at any point, just reach out and we will jump in.
New people first need to be registered as a user on your account before they can be given a license. An administrator can add them by entering their name and work email, and then assign a license to them. If you would prefer, send us the details and we will add and assign your new starters for you.
Yes, a practitioner license can be re-assigned as many times as needed on the first day it is assigned to a user.
After the initial 24-hour assignment period, the license will be locked for 30 days. At the end of the 30 day period the license will be available for re-assignment.
Any re-assignment will restart the 24-hour assignment clock, and will be followed by the 30 day assignment lock.
No. Software now activates through a simple sign-in. As long as a user is registered, has a license assigned, and signs in to the CONNECTION Client, the software will run. There are no keys to track or share.
SELECT is Bentley’s maintenance program for perpetual license holders. It gives you access to the latest software version, technical support, and license portability across devices. Without the SELECT program you can only utilize the version you purchased and lose access to updates. For most active users, SELECT is a requirement and letting it lapse can create complications as versions evolve.
Annual subscription users will lose access at the end of the term if they do not renew. The CAD Journey team will flag your upcoming renewals well in advance so that you’re never caught off guard.