data managment

[lambertb]

I have a project with 10 centerline alignments. I would like to use data shortcuts. I use it for my existing surface. Any advice for splitting alignments and corridors? If I put all my alignments in a file and data ref to a corridor file I can't change my alignment without going back to the alignment file. If I put 1 alignment and corridor in a file I can change my alignment but will intersection wizards and other alignment related tools work as well as if all the alignments were in one dwg?

Thanks.

C3D2011

[tony1978]

Depending on the size of the project i typically just pull my pg surface, corridor and alignments in one drawing. Do you have separate corridors for each alignment? I personally feel like if you have to many data referencing into a drawing then it will take forever to sychronize. I think you will see that going back and forth between drawings will just add more time to your design. If you corridors for your alignments are long, then yeah you could separate them. It really depends on the size of the project. I do a lot of subdivision design and i typically have about 1-3 miles of corridor roads with intersections and this usually maxs out my computer (32 bit-4gb memory). If you have a 64 bit system then you will be fine. You might it tedious to going back and forth between drawings.

tony

Senior Design Tech

www.tonyscivil3dworld.blogspot.com

C3D 2009-2011

[lambertb]

I have seperate corridors for each alignment. And the plan is a seperate dwg for each. Reading the best practices seems like Autodesk sayd data reference alignments into a corridor file. But by doing that you lose the ability to manipulate them.  

[Neilw_05]

Typically you would not need to manipulate an alignment so having them in a seperate file might be the recommended workflow. In cases where the alignment is not constrained by rights of way or across open terrain then you would want the corridor(s) in the same file for dynamic iterations. It sounds like you might have that scenario.