Create Rail Joints

You can access this dialog from the following:

Ribbon: OpenRail Modeling > Light Rail Technical Preview

The Create Rail Joints tool allows you to create joints using a fixed length or a maximum length table. Joints can be displayed as a list for manipulation or interactively in the plan view. Joints can be annotated and reported.

Setting	Description
Apply to Rail	Specifies which rail line the joints will be placed on.
Min Joint Spacing	The minimum spacing between rail joints.
Max Joint Spacing	The maximum spacing between rail joints.
Joint Thickness	The length of the joint.
Remainder Placing	How the remainder of the joints should be placed if the previous parameters specified cannot be met.
Controlling Rail	Specifies which rail line is used when determining the length of the rail. Single Rail - Left or right Inside/Outside -

Note: Moving a joint may recreate and recompute the joint based on specified parameters.

Relevant Properties

Name="EP100" 

Type="Joint" 

Northing="4470663.3248968" 

Easting="502625.5246849" 

Elevation="0.0000000" 

Offset="-0.5972169" 

JointLength="0.0000000" 

Station

*RotationDirection="tangent, absolute.." 

*TangentAzimuth="4.9503215805"