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What's New in Bentley Rail Track V8i?

Bentley Rail Track V8i is Bentley’s new rail infrastructure design and optimization application, delivering the best of InRail and MXRAIL in a more advanced offering.

Available for MicroStation and AutoCAD, and with Bentley’s world-class CAD functionality built in, Bentley Rail Track offers:

  • Integrated horizontal and vertical alignment design using a broad array of methods
  • Single and multi-element horizontal and vertical regression analysis
  • Horizontal and vertical curvature and slew diagrams
  • Sophisticated cant design, including cant calculator and cant editor
  • Advanced turnout (switch and crossing) design, with support for multiple international standards
  • Design checking

New features in the V8i release include:

  • View geometry enhancements
  • View Rails for the 2D, 3D display of rails and surface creation
  • Roadway Designer for the creation of surface features for ballast
  • Horizontal and vertical profile annotation
    • Annotate horizontal slews
    • Annotate vertical slews
    • Annotate left and right rail elevations
  • Display turnouts in profiles
  • Data Acquisition tools
  • Bentley Map functionality

Still using MXRAIL? What’s new for you?

  • Advanced geometry modeling including:
    • Field-to-design/renewal-to-field
    • Single and multiple element horizontal/vertical regression analysis
    • Dynamic Regression analysis
    • Switch and crossing creation and manipulation
    • Integrated cant design and analysis
    • Geometric design checking
  • Comprehensive surface modeling
    • Earthwork modeling, including ballast
  • New-generation report generation using XML/XSL technologies
  • Robust drawing production

Still using InRail? What’s new for you?

  • Even more field-to-design functionality
    • Survey validation
    • Rails to centerline
    • Inclusion of existing cant into horizontal regression element determination
  • Additional turnout bending methods
  • Viewing rails in 2D, 3D or inclusion into a design surface
  • Additional drawing production functionality
    • View regression data
    • Profile annotation
    • Turnout annotation
  • New design-to-field functionality
    • Export to Matisa’s PALAS system
    • Inclusion of cant into LandXML
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