Generate Rails
By the command Generate Rails parallel tracks including the gravel bed are generated automatically. This action is available on the dialog Modify Objects and on the context menu of the object "Railway".
Dialog Generate Rails
On the dialog the following parameters are editable:
- Number of lanes: number of parallel tracks of the entire rail track
- Distance between center lines (m)
- Ballast height (m): height above terrain; will replace the default height above rail top edge of 0.6 m (Geometry: „height at every point“).
- Additional ballast width (m): width of the ballast, measured from the rail tracks axis.total width of track bed = distance between center lines + 2 * additional track ballast width (on the following example: 6.5 + 2 * 1.5 = 9 m)
- Ballast slope: lateral slope of the ballast (default: 0.66 = 1:1.5)
- Additional track bed width (m): additional width on the level of the previously mentioned terrain, measured from the lower contour line of the ballast slope.
Example
By using the values as specified above a railway track as illustrated results (dimensions added):
Sectional view resp. on vertical grid:
