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<castled071049> wrote in message"I
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have a sewer drawing that contains the sanitary sewer network for the project
with data references to all the road alignments."
It sounded like you
already had your sewer network ready to go. So... design the sewer network in
the sewer file, then dref it into the road file and draw parts in the road
profile.
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<castled071049> wrote in messageThe
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more I think about it, the less I like the idea of designing pipe networks
from road profiles. One problem is what to do when you hit a street
intersection. Your pipe design would have to stop at the end of road profile
"A" and begin again over on the profile of road "B". Better is to have an FG
surface of the road network and create profile views of your sewer network
referencing that surface so that your sewer design profiles would be
continous.
My opinion, anyway.
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"Joe Bouza" <
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Not the import from LDT. When you create the data
short cuts for each you make an xml file for the data shortcut. you did create
data shortcuts from objects in the drawing after you imported the LDT data,
right?
Joe
Unless your pipe network follows the exact centerline of its referenced alignment, you will see distortions in the profile view different from what you measure with a scale. The labeling will be accurate, (lengths and slopes) but there will be visual distortion to the extent that the pipe network deviates from parallel to the road centerline. (An example would be a straight pipe run along a curve in the road.) Also problematic is that any crossing pipes shown in profile view reflect the crossing pipe's invert at the elevation it crosses the alignment, NOT the actual pipe network. You may think you have minimum clearance when in fact you do not.
For these reasons (and others) we create alignments for our pipe networks and proflile them based on these alignments. We do not reference the road centerline in any way, so that is not a problem for us. We do not, therefore, need road profiles in our sewer design files.