Railway Alignment Design

In this page, Railway specific functions in Alignment Design is described.

For general use of Alignment Design, see the Road help pages.

Link to Road Alignment Design

Options

To open the Railway options dialog, select menu Tool; Options... and select the Railway tab.

• Accept cant on line elements: If enabled, the Cant column will be accept cant value on lines.

• Use sign with cants: If enabled, negative or positive cant will not be set automatically from curve direction. 

• Use cant offsets: If enabled, two columns opens in the indata panel. Use the first column for moving the cant station into this element with distance from element's start. Use the second column to move element's cant station backwards from end station. Offset value for end should be negative.

• Use KM stationing: If this is enabled, KM stationing from KM Calc will be shown in the Result tabs.