OpenRail ConceptStation

OpenRail ConceptStation, enabled by the combination of OpenRail’s digital components and digital context, uniquely extends BIM capabilities to rail conceptual planning and layout. Working in the 3D design environment of the geo-coordinated reality mesh as the digital context of the rail corridor, the user can access Components Center to drag and drop digital components into the design to quickly lay out rail lines, bridges, overhead lines, signals, tunnels, etc. With the context of the terrain, and the intelligence of the digital components, OpenRail ConceptStation can quickly calculate quantities of railway elements such as track, ballast, sleepers, contact and catenary wire, equipment, bridge decking, concrete, and steel, as well as the cut-and-fill earthwork required for the conceptual design, and interactively produce a preliminary cost estimate to evaluate feasibility. All the design information, components, and context in the conceptual design can be reused in a digital workflow to OpenRail Designer for detailed design of the railway infrastructure.

Digital Workflows

In digital workflows, data captured or created for one purpose is accessed by computer programs for other purposes, saving time, minimizing rework, and improving data quality over the asset lifecycle. Digital workflows can also converge the work of different disciplines for additional advancements in project delivery and asset performance. Examples enabled by digital workflows include conceptioneering, constructioneering, inspectioneering, and operationeering. Each of these workflows represent new opportunities for engineers and their work to add value beyond their traditional role in design, to include contributions to construction, inspections, and operations.

The advancement of digital workflows in OpenRail will help users to achieve faster delivery, system-wide visibility, assured compliance, and better decisions in design, construction, and operations of rail infrastructure.

Learn more about OpenRail here.

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Caption: OpenRail ConceptStation CONNECT Edition allows rapid exploration of multi-discipline design and engineering alternatives

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Caption: OpenRail ConceptStation CONNECT Edition leverages inbuilt design and clearance checks on existing and proposed infrastructure

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Captions: OpenRail ConceptStation CONNECT Edition creates innovative and inspiring designs including switches, crossings and related infrastructure

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Caption: OpenRail ConceptStation CONNECT Edition allows understanding of financial implications as early as possible in the process

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Caption: OpenRail Designer CONNECT Edition cant editor affords engineers and designers with the required control and flexibility

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Caption: OpenRail Designer CONNECT Edition provides immersive rail and transit corridor modeling

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Caption: OpenRail Designer CONNECT Edition allows rapid development of multi-discipline designs in context using 3D reality meshes

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