Rapid conceptual designs
What is OpenRail ConceptStation?
OpenRail ConceptStation gives you rail, electrification, tunnel, and bridge conceptual design capabilities to help you create intelligent models in context. Evaluate conceptual design options with real-world data and cost analysis to rapidly determine optimal designs. Utilize data acquisition, reality modeling, and conceptual design to eliminate high-cost and high-risk items in the preliminary and planning design stages of your rail network projects. Using OpenRail ConceptStation, you can:
- Locate and download online, data-rich context from a variety of sources, such as point clouds, 3D reality meshes, terrain data, images, and geospatial information to bring real-world settings to your rail project.
- Use 3D modeling with easy-to-use engineering sketching capabilities to quickly conceptualize rail, electrification, tunnel, and bridge designs.
- Rapidly generate multiple design scenarios with associated project costs, and share with project teams and stakeholders to choose the best option.
- Share realistic visualizations with the public and stakeholders to gather feedback, improve public engagements, and speed project approvals.
- Evaluate Viable Track Alternatives
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Evaluate viable track alternatives
Generate multiple design scenarios with associated costs for better decision making. Quickly evaluate designs to optimize rail, electrification, tunnel, and bridge designs to address criteria such as clearances and cost assessment for each concept. Input your own historical financial model to ensure realistic cost information as you determine the best alternative to move forward into detailed design.
- Add Digital Context
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Add digital context and provide stunning deliverables
Jump-start the conceptual design process by locating and downloading data-rich context information for a given location or use 3D output from 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.
You can 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.
- Design Conceptual Electrification Systems
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Design conceptual electrification systems
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, all while adhering to design standards.
Evaluate viable track alternatives
Generate multiple design scenarios with associated costs for better decision making. Quickly evaluate designs to optimize rail, electrification, tunnel, and bridge designs to address criteria such as clearances and cost assessment for each concept. Input your own historical financial model to ensure realistic cost information as you determine the best alternative to move forward into detailed design.
Add digital context and provide stunning deliverables
Jump-start the conceptual design process by locating and downloading data-rich context information for a given location or use 3D output from 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.
You can 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.
Design conceptual electrification systems
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, all while adhering to design standards.
OpenRail ConceptStation
- Quick-start rail projects by rapidly creating conceptual designs
- Layout conceptual track designs
- Design conceptual electrification systems
- Deliver real-time visualization of actual design content without the need for a dedicated visualization specialist
*Prices vary per region. For more options, see licensing and subscriptions section.
User Quote
“Bentley’s applications translate into inevitable efficiency in the design phase, as well as significant savings in time for review and coordination between disciplines.”
Featured User Stories
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FAQs
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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