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Ferrovia
Software for Railway Design and Maintenance

Ferrovia
Professional rail industry 2D/3D software solution for high

Application:

Railway Design and Maintenance

speed and conventional rail track design. Including

maintenance and rail track reconstruction tools with
realignment calculations and clearance analysis. Ferrovia

Web page:
Working platform:

provides a set of comprehensive tools to design small to

very large rail projects.
Supported languages:

Ferrovia application
n

High speed rail track design;

Conventional rail track design;

Platforms design with junctions and switches;

Large rail track projects support;

Road/rail intersections design

Industrial, underground/metro rail track design;

Light rail design in urban areas;

www.cgsplus.com
AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD,
AutoCAD Map 3D, Bricscad;
latest functionality and updates are
provided for current and up to four older
versions of CAD platform.
english, german, polish, czech, hungarian,
croatian, slovenian

Rail track geometry calculations and data export to

tamping machinery;
Rail track envelope clearance analysis;

Highlights
Worldwide gauge
support
Support for various rail gauges, cant
calculation and editing methods,
custom turnout geometry and
editable cross section geometry
make Ferrovia applicable worldwide.

Parabolas support

Customizable

Ferrovia manages complex

geometry designs, supporting linear
and nonlinear parabolas for
conventional and high speed rail
tracks design.

Design parameters defined in an

external XML files provide easy
customization possibilities.

Intuitive user
interface
Intuitive ribbon workflows make
Ferrovia an easy to master solution.

Seamless
integration
Ferrovia is seamlessly integrated in
various CAD environments,
supporting AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil
3D, Bricscad and more.

Integrated
infrastructure
solution
Ferrovia is part of CGS infrastructure
solution. Integrating road, rail,
channel and power lines design.

Dynamic update
Manage your design project
changes with dynamical geometry
updates.

Benefits

Digital terrain
model (DTM)
Ferrovia includes a CGS digital
terrain model tool which supports
terrain creation based on
surveyed points, break lines and
other CAD entity elements, file
data etc. Option provides fast
design possibilities with various
display types available.

Survey tools
n

Manipulation of survey points

and connections,

Topographic and other symbols

insert/editing tools,

Raster image manager,

Calculations and interpolations,

Utilities for dimensioning and

processing of plan view,

Digital terrain modeling and

editing tools,
Grading support and more.

Alignment
geometry design
n

Multiple spiral type support

including Clothoid, various
Cubic parabolas (Hfer, CZ,
Imbonatatita ), Cosines,
Sinusoidal, Bloss, S-curve
parabola)
Free & Floating alignment
elements design

Fixed elements alignment

design (Stick method design)

PI based alignment design

Parallel rail track alignment

design

Best-fit regression alignment

design

Polyline conversion to an
alignment

Multiple design speed

definition along alignment

Station control support (with

increasing/decreasing station
direction possibilities)
n

Cross sections
design/editing/labeling

Correspondent cross sections

design (with multiple
alignments support)

Points and lines along the axis

design and projection to
profile/cross section views

Circular/parabolic vertical
curves support

PVI based profile design

Poly-line conversion to profile

Multiple terrain line support

Superimposed profile (profile

projection tool with multiple
profile views support)
Intersection creation tool
(design of level crossings, rail
connections etc.)

Cross sections
detailed designs
n

Multiple cross section views

design/editing

Multiple rail tracks display in

single cross section view
support (parallel and nonparallel rail tracks, road, river
channels, power lines and
more)

Rail track geometry creation

tool with automatic/custom
defined rail bed widening

Conditional element definition

Labeling tools and volume

calculations

Block insertion support and

user defined entities
conversions

3D solids view support and

more.

Drape to DTM or drape to

geometry points options

Profile geometry
design

Cant calculation /
editing tools
Cant calculation supports table
cant values input, parametric
calculations, user defined applied
cant values and pivot point
definitions. Cant editing tool
provides advanced applied data
values display with various editing
possibilities to comply with
various country/industry
standards.

Supports multiple CAD

platforms.
Includes digital terrain creation
tool.
Enables design customization
within external xml setting
files.
Includes turnout library with
custom geometry creation tool.
Advanced applied cant and
editing tools.
Support 6 different rail gauges.
Includes automated existing rail
track realignment calculation
tools.
Supports industry-standard
data formats:
-

LandXML.
Plasser&Theurer (GEO and
VER data formats).
ASCII and MS Excell data
formats.

Enables extra large projects

design:
-

Up to a 1000 km rail design

with multiple alignments,
profiles and thousands of
cross section views.
Optimized function
execution speed to support
large projects.
Supports large project
splitting into multiple
drawing.
Provides seamless
integration with CGS road
design and other solutions.

References

Turnouts
n

Predefined library of turnouts

supports custom defined
turnout geometry creation and
editing

Parametric design or interactive

placement method for turnouts

Turnouts editing/deleting tools

Turnouts report tool

Automatic bending of turnouts

in curve

Profile display of branched

alignments in profile view

Alignment
regression
Alignment regression tool
provides centerline creation based
on existing track position survey
points or rails poly-lines
definition. Regression tool uses
least square methods for
alignment creation. Single
elements regression creation tools
to draw individual tangent or
curve elements.

Maintenance tools
& realignment
calculations

Ferrovia is widely accepted as a

railway design and maintenance
solution in central and eastern
European countries; from Austria,
Poland, Hungary and Slovak
republic, Romania, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia.
Apart from European countries
the Ferrovia usage is also
spreading globally to North and
South American continent and
Africa.
track re-designs. A set of
comprehensive tools such as
Surveying points to alignment
centerline, Comparison analysis
tools and Side track object
distance calculations provide an
easy design workflow.

Performance &
Scalability

Data format
Conversion
Interfaces
Conversion interfaces for bridging
railway design and maintenance
solution with industry standard
data format (LandXML) or other
specialized rail track equipment or
machinery data formats (Plasser &
Theurer) included.

With Ferrovia a user can design

small rail projects or large projects
with up to 1000 km of
alignments, profiles and cross
sections with no performance
issues thus providing engineers a
professional rail design tool.

Ferrovia includes specific rail

maintenance tools for existing rail

CGS plus d.o.o.

USA Branch office:

About CGS plus

CGS plus LLC

CGS plus is a reputable Civil

Engineering software developer
and Autodesk Preferred Industry
Partner for AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Brnieva ulica 13
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

3426 NW 14th Ave

Camas, WA 98607
USA

Phone: +386 1 530 11 00

Fax: +386 1 530 11 32

Phone: (360) 210-5397

Mobile: (360) 513 8709

Internet: www.cgsplus.com
e-mail: info@cgsplus.si

Internet: usa.cgsplus.com
e-mail: info.usa@cgsplus.com

CGS plus Software is translated

into several languages and
adapted to national civil
engineering standards. Its used
by more than 3000 customers in
app. 25 countries every day.

Ferrovia is also available at many

Universities throughout Europe
for educational purposes in field
of Civil engineering.
For complete list of countries and
companies using Ferrovia visit our
web page or contact us.