New in Rail Workflows (What's New in 2025.1 and 2025.2)

New in 2025.2

• To facilitate the work of rail designers in the UK and France and meet their design standards, Grade/Slope in Ambient Settings now has (run) and (mm per m, mm/m) formats for cant gradient parameters in the Cant Tabular Editor.

  For more information, see Ambient Settings Tab (Drawing Settings Dialog Box).

• Added new cant parameters for Civil 3D labels. See Layout Tab (Label Style Composer Dialog Box) for more information on editing label components.
  • Cant Information labels and Cant Information Expressions
    • Curve Radius
    • Equilibrium Cant Gradient
    • Equilibrium Cant Vertical Speed
    • Cant Deficiency Gradient
    • Cant Deficiency Vertical Speed
    • Cant Jerk
    • Cant Ratio
  • Cant Critical Points labels and Cant Critical Points Expressions
    • Curve Radius
    • Equilibrium Cant Gradient
    • Equilibrium Cant Vertical Speed
    • Cant Deficiency Gradient
    • Cant Deficiency Vertical Speed
    • Cant Jerk
    • Cant Ratio
  • Cant Data Band for Profile Views
    • Equilibrium Cant Gradient
    • Equilibrium Cant Vertical Speed
    • Cant Deficiency Gradient
    • Cant Deficiency Vertical Speed
    • Cant Jerk
    • Cant Ratio
  • Horizontal Data Band for Spirals for Profile Views
    • Equilibrium Cant Gradient
    • Equilibrium Cant Vertical Speed
    • Cant Deficiency Gradient
    • Cant Deficiency Vertical Speed
• Added new cant parameters for horizontal alignment in the Cant Tabular Editor for cant calculations. This provides an overview of the necessary parameters in rail design related to such calculations.
  • Cant Jerk (m/s^3 or ft/s^3)
  • Cant Ratio

  For more information, see Cant Tabular Editor Dialog Box.

• Added API support for the Cant Jerk and Cant Ratio parameters.
• Extended support for the Cant parameters in the RailCANTInfo structure API.
• Added the CheckTurnoutCatalog command to check the syntax or configuration errors in turnout standard files. For more information on turnout commands, see Turnout Command Reference.

New in 2025.1

• Added new cant parameters for horizontal alignment in the Cant Tabular Editor for cant calculations. This provides an overview of necessary parameters in rail design related to such calculations:
  • Curve Radius
  • Equilibrium Cant Gradient
  • Equilibrium Cant Vertical Speed
  • Cant Deficiency Gradient
  • Design Speed
  • Cant Deficiency Vertical Speed
  

  For more information, see Cant Tabular Editor.

• Modified the side parameter for turnouts to help improve rail design documentation.
  • In the Create Turnout dialog box, the Side parameter has been changed to Alignment Side for clarity.
  • A Turnout Side property is available in the Object Properties palette and Text Component Editor of the turnout Label Style Composer.

For more information, see Content Tab (Create Turnout Dialog Box).