Railway CAD Tools

This is an overview of the functions available for Novapoint Railway in the CAD software.

For the Novapoint Railway module, many of the functions and buttons are similar to those of Novapoint Road CAD tools.

The only Railway specific content is part of this documentation.

Project

• Task Selector (see documentation for Road > Project > Select Task)

• Alignment Design

• Alignment Design from Points

• Switch Design

• Draw extra station No... (see documentation for Road > Project > Draw extra station No...)

• Draw extra station from Reference Alignment (see documentation for Road > Project > Draw extra station from Reference Alignment)

• Vertical Information Along Alignment (see documentation for Road > Project > Vertical Information Along Alignment)

• Distance Between Two Alignments (see documentation for Road > Project > Distance Between Two Alignments)

• Intersection Between Two Alignments (see documentation for Road > Project > Intersection Between Two Alignments)

Design

• KM Stationing

Draw

For many of the functions under Draw for Railway there are identical functionality found in Road.

See the Draw-section in Road for documentation.

• Horizontal Alignment (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw Chainage Break Symbol (see documentation for Road)

  • Trim Alignment (see documentation for Road)

  • Delete Alignments in Drawing (see documentation for Road)

  • Adjust Chainage (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw matchlines along line (see documentation for Road)

• Longitudinal Profile (see documentation for Road)

  • Longitudinal Profile from Railway model (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw Multiple Longitudinal Profile from Railway model (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw Longitudinal Profile from Terrain model (see documentation for Road)

  • Split Long Section from Road model (see documentation for Road)

  • Update Longitudinal Profile from Railway model (see documentation for Road)

  • Update Longitudinal Profile from Terrain model (see documentation for Road)

• Cross sections (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw cross-sections from Railway Model (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw Terrain cross-sections (see documentation for Road)

  • Update Railway model cross-sections (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw Symbols to cross-sections (see documentation for Road)

• Railway model (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw Railway model (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw Multiple Railway models (see documentation for Road)

• Drawing Generator (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw Matchlines along Line (see documentation for Road)

  • Draw Plan Frames along Alignment (see documentation for Road)

  • Plan and Profile Drawings (see documentation for Road)

• Platform Edge Design

Symbols

• Railway Symbols

• • Symbol Insertion

3D Tools

• 3D Object along line (see documentation for Road > 3D Tools > 3D Object)

• Railway Catenary

• Cross-section along line (see documentation for Landscape > Terrain Design > 3D Model - Cross-section along Line)

• Convert Arc to straight line (see documentation for Road > 3D Tools > Convert Arc to straight line)

• Set object elevation (see documentation for Landscape > Terrain Design > Set object elevation)

• Draw 3D symbols (see documentation for Road)

• Draw 3D Train

• 3D Cable conduit

• Manhole

Tools

• Drawing Style for Horizontal Alignment (see documentation for Road > Tools > Drawing Style Configuration)

• Drawing Style for Longitudinal Profile (see documentation for Road > Tools > Drawing Style Configuration)

• Drawing Style for Cross-sections (see documentation for Road > Tools > Drawing Style Configuration)

• Draw Profile Frames along Alignment (see documentation for Road > Draw > Draw Profile Frames along Alignment)

• Draw matchlines along line (see documentation for Road)

• Cross-section layout generator (see documentation for Novapoint Tools > Drawing Presentation > Cross-Section Layout Generator)

Reports

• Alignment Reports

• Switch Stakeout KofGen