Corridor Layering Theory

[Anonymous]

Civil3D2008 SP2

I know this has to have been covered before, but I can't find it.

I am TOTALLY confused as to how the corridor layering system was set up, and
am having nightmares with my otherwise beautiful corridor. I used the NCD
Extended template to start this drawing in case it matters. I also created
subassemblies using All Codes.

It seems that all of the corridor objects are nested some way back to the
layer C-Road-Corr. This is a nightmare! What I would like to do is to create
a corridor, and have the curb lines, ditches, crownlines, and daylights on
their own layer, but still part of the corridor. I DON'T want to create
separate feature lines that are not attached to the corridor. This is
causing major hassle because even though I have given the Feature Lines
their own layer, turning off C-Road-Corr layer to get rid of the corridor
sample lines also turns off the feature lines. I guess this is because each
of the subassembly markers are coded (or nested) to the C-Road-Corr layer.

Which brings me to a couple of questions.

1. WHY? Why do the marker codes for the subassemblies get automatically
assigned to one layer? Did I do something wrong?
2. What is everyone else doing to create a corridor and just have the normal
things you would see on a site plan show up without the sample lines?

I think I must be totally missing the intent of the corridor programming
because it shouldn't be this hard just to turn off the parts of the corridor
I don't want and cruise along. I don't think it should be this Archaic right
out of the box should it?

Thanks for any advice. I have freshly pulled hair if anyone would like some.
lol


Tim

[Anonymous]

It's not "archaic" and it's not a "nightmare". There's just a little
learning that needs to happen.

Everything about how a corridor displays has to do with Code Set Styles
whiich contain 3 other types of styles: Links, Shapes, and Points.

Create Link, Point, and Shape styles and set all of their display layers to
your layer of choice. If you pick layer 0, then they will display the same
properties as the layer the corridor is on. Let's say you pick layer "Corr
Samp"

Create a code set style whose Default and No Codes styles are set to the
ones you just made. Apply this code set style to your corridor.

You can now freeze layer "Corr Samp" and all of those pesky sample sections
will go away and your feature lines will stay.

Matt

[Anonymous]

Thanks Matt, I am figuring all of it out as I go here.

I think I must have caused some Gremlins to rear their ugly head somehow. I
did everything the way you explain in the first part with codes shapes and
links set to C-Roads-Corr, but when I turn off C-Roads-Corr, the feature
lines stay on until I regen. Then they disapear until that layer is turned
back on.

The only way I found to make it stable was to set my own layers for all the
point, shape, and link codes therefore giving myself the flexibility to turn
individual parts off without the nesting action I was getting from all being
tied to one layer.

I see what you are saying, but I think I caused something to go haywire in
the process.

Thanks for the help.
Tim

[lissaucad]

Tim,

I'm having some of the same issues. To make certain objects appear or not appear takes much research. So far, I have been adding dated suffexes and renamed every feature style possible to just leave a trail of bread crumbs. Why so many are defaulted to layer "0" or one layer is beyond me. Why would they name features as basic and standard puzzles me as well.