Berm/Ditch Design

[scohen]

All,

What subassemblies should be used to design a simple berm/ditch? IOW, no
depth/shape is necessary, and the only design data I am concerned with is
fill/excavation and generating proposed contours. I have tried using
BasicLane w/DaylightGeneral and it works ok when I leave the depth, but when
I set the depth to 0, the subassembly disappears and becomes invalid until
I give it a depth again (I assume this works as designed). I tried using
just the LinkWidthAndSlope subassembly with DaylightGeneral on each side of
the assembly and the corridor width doesn't match the width I told it to be
for each side of the centerline (obviously half of the berm/ditch).

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
-Seth

[Anonymous]

I have done extensive dyke and ditch work with Civil 3D. I have always used
the generic links with success. I'm not sure what your settings are, but
there would appear to be an error somewhere.

Matt Kolberg


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All,

What subassemblies should be used to design a simple berm/ditch? IOW, no
depth/shape is necessary, and the only design data I am concerned with is
fill/excavation and generating proposed contours. I have tried using
BasicLane w/DaylightGeneral and it works ok when I leave the depth, but when
I set the depth to 0, the subassembly disappears and becomes invalid until
I give it a depth again (I assume this works as designed). I tried using
just the LinkWidthAndSlope subassembly with DaylightGeneral on each side of
the assembly and the corridor width doesn't match the width I told it to be
for each side of the centerline (obviously half of the berm/ditch).

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.
-Seth

[scohen]

Matt,

You are correct, I had it linked to a horizontal alignment (accidentally of
course :-).

Thanks for responding.
-Seth