Hi everybody-
Obviously I'm new to Civil 3D. What do you use to show the edge of pavement, curb, and sidewalk in your final plans? Do you set up a style for the corridor? How do you guys do it? Thanks!
Meredith
Hi Meredith,
Loaded question...
For "simpler" corridors you can create a code set style that suppresses the dispaly of the links and markers, and displays just the corridor feature lines that you would need to see on a final plan. It's a bit of a process but can, and has been done - but it all depends on the complexity of the corridor. Also bear in mind that offset geometry (pavement edges, sidewalks etc.) represented by corridor feature lines are created by connecting the subassembly points between the assembly insertion locations - this can become an issue if your baseline and/or offset geometry has curves/spirals in the geometry.
You can also extract polylines or alignments from the corridor for final plan production, but these are once again, created from the feature lines so you may still have the same issues with curved geometry.
Best practices for corridor modeling (depending on the project) involve creating plan geometry 1st (either as alignments or feature lines) and controlling the calculation of the corridor by targeting this geometry - this way, if the geometry changes, the corridor will update. You would then turn the corridor layer off and plot just the plan geometry.
As mentioned it's a loaded question and really depends on the type / complexity of the design.
Hope this helps!
Andrew
Andrew has made some great points. Long and short of it is to generate polylines from your corridor and use that. You could generate a feature line as well and make it dynamic to your corridor. If you alter you corridor then your feature line would update. Either way mucking around with code set styles is a waste of your time.
@LeafRiders wrote:Andrew has made some great points. Long and short of it is to generate polylines from your corridor and use that. You could generate a feature line as well and make it dynamic to your corridor. If you alter you corridor then your feature line would update. Either way mucking around with code set styles is a waste of your time.
Adjusting code set styles is certainly a PITA and should be improved as should the ability to extract all/selected featurelines in one hit rather than selecting one, extracting it, selecting the next one etc
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We create a separate corridor for our design. I create a much simpler corridor in my roadway drawing, without all the subassemblies. I extract feature lines from the design corridor, put them in the roadway and use them as targets if necessary. We have both existing and proposed Code Sets as many of our projects are widenings and realignments. We show both the existing pavement and the proposed pavement in our roadway drawings, using different hatch patterns for the pavement structure for each of the code set styles. The existing is shaded, the proposed is hatched. Our design corridor drawing is used as a setup for our cross sections. Occasionally, when our proposed ditch lines vary from the existing, I'll xref the design corridor and freeze all the layers except for the one the feature lines are on for the proposed ditch, that way if there's changes in the ditches, it passes through to the roadway drawing.
How doe that work and maintain a dynamic link to the design corridor? A code set that shows existing? how does that work?
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It doesn't in some cases. If we used alignments for all our targets, obvioulsy it would. It just becomes a lot of alignments to manage. So, we choose this route. Since it's the last part of the process, it hasn't been an issue. Even if the corridor were to change, since we leave the xref design corridor layers thawed in the roadway drawing, any changes would be apparent. Our typical roadway project is between 1 and 2 miles long.
Indeed we do. Not so much for Edge of Pavement, curbs and sidewalks (these are easiest handled through 2d-geometry cad), but for ditches, daylight lines and slope patterns. As we can't data shortcut the corridor, my present work order is to explode the corridor once into a standard acad block. Then copy+paste this block to the dwg which is then xrefed into the plot-dwg. Still don't understand why we can't data shortcut the corridor…
Me either, but you can xref the corridor?
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i have xrefed the corridor, but its so dark compared to the rest of the alignment and other features, setting feature line light weights is not helping, is there a way in which the corridor can be made transparent, say 50 %
The "darkness" is only a display function so that you can tell what's part of the xref vs active. It's not a function of having a CORRIDOR in the XRef so much as it is SOMETHING is in the XRef (which in this case is the corridor). It won't plot differently though.
You CAN change how much XRefs fade though:
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