To Create a Rail Crossover

Place a rail crossover between two rail alignments.

A crossover adds an alignment joined by two turnouts that connect two existing parallel alignments. The alignments must be a sufficient length and distance apart to generate a crossover.

Note: When creating turnouts and crossovers, calculations for the parent and diverted alignment are all based at the centre of the rail line, not the left or right rail tracks.

1. Click Rail tab Crossover panel Create Find.
2. Select an existing turnout or the first alignment.
3. If you selected an alignment rather than an existing turnout, specify the reference station for the turnout.
4. Select the second alignment.

   If you have not yet loaded a turnout catalogue into the drawing, the Turnout Catalogue dialog box is displayed.

5. Use the Turnout Catalogue dialog box to load a turnout catalogue to use and click OK. By default, turnout catalogues are installed to C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 2024\eng\Data\Railway Design Standards\Turnout.

   The Create Crossover dialog box is displayed.

6. On the General tab of the Create Crossover dialog box, specify the crossover name and other general information for the crossover.
7. Click the Content tab to specify the type of turnouts to create on the alignments.
8. Click the Connection tab to specify the geometry of the connection between the two turnouts.
9. Click the Profile tab to specify whether to create a profile for the crossover.
10. Click OK.