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Cross Section Issue

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Message 1 of 7
kolk
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Cross Section Issue

I am having an issue with my cross section plotting.  When I am creating my section views the finished grade from the corridar and my top surface are not agreeing.  Typically speaking the overhang correction (top/bottom) or a boundary fix takes care of it, but this one is being a little stubburn.  I've tried rebuilding about every portion I can think of, but to no avail.  I've also tried yelling at it, but that doesn't seem to phase it either.

 

Any ideas???

 

Thanks in advance!

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Message 2 of 7
sjg
Advisor
in reply to: kolk

Did you turn on the tin lines for the surface, to see if something got out of wack. I have a little experience with corridors, and the sections we did, I didn't sample the finished ground surface, because the corridor itself would show finished ground.
Steve Goessling
Land Consultants
Civil3D 2015
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Message 3 of 7
sboon
in reply to: kolk

When you created the corridor surface did you use links or breaklines?  Is the add as breakline option turned on?

Steve
Expert Elite Alumnus
Message 4 of 7
kolk
in reply to: sboon

I have actually tried it with and w/out breaklines...there doesn't seem to be any difference.  I have looked at it the tin lines it confirms what I'm seeing in the sections.  I know I can just eliminate sampling a bit of data to get a good picture, but this seems a little indicitive of a bigger problem

Message 5 of 7
sboon
in reply to: kolk

I would almost bet that you're on a curve in this part of the corridor and/or you're sections are quite closely spaced.  One of the rules of Delauney triangulation is that TIN lines should connect to the closest available points.  Under the right circumstances that rule sometimes means that the software will try to connect from a point at the gutter to a point at the top or back of curb in the next section instead of the next gutter point.

 

Try adding some of the featurelines to the surface as breakline data, see if that helps.

Steve
Expert Elite Alumnus
Message 6 of 7
Jeff_M
in reply to: kolk

I've had corridor surfaces that at some point stops correctly updating certain areas, so looking at the TIN lines they go to points that are no longer a part of the corridor. Sometimes closing the drawing and re-opening it 'fixes' this. Otherwise, the only ways I've found around this are: Delete the surface and recreate it (not always a viable option) or turn on the display of the TIN Points and manually delete those that are no longer connected to the corridor (time consuming).

Jeff_M, also a frequent Swamper
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Message 7 of 7
kolk
in reply to: Jeff_M

Thanks for the replies everybody.  What ended up working, and I think was alluded to above, was that in my corridor I was working off 2 baselines and the "connection" point in the middle was not matching with regard to frequency lines, hence cutting a strange tin.  Though I'm not a huge fan of this, and it's probably not the best work-around, I just upped my frequency through the corridor to 0.5' (I know...yikes!)

 

In any case, crisis averted.

 

Thanks everyone

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