Grading search order issue

[Neilw_05]

I am needing to grade out from a featureline that is in cut to daylight in the fill direction (drainage flows away from the featureline). To do this I have created a grading critieria that has the Fill First Search Order parameter locked. I have verified that there is a fill solution if I use a 0.2% slope on the grading. Yet when I apply the grading it always uses the cut solution. It refuses to find a fill solution even if I apply 0.05% slope to the grading.

Has anyone had similar problems with this functionality? (C3D 2013).

[machadt]

Hi Neil,
Have you try to use the projection as fill slope only as part of the criteria? and then create another criteria just to cut.

[Joe-Bouza]

Hi Neil

I just tried the very same thing and could not get the fill first to work. I eventually over projected at the grade I wanted, extracted the zero contour from a temp volume surface, turned into a FL extracted EG and added an infill. I know its not dynamic but it got me out of the ditch fast.

[Neilw_05]

Tatiana,

I did see there is an option to force a solution to be exclusively fill or exclusively cut, but I want the grading to find a cut solution where it can't find a fill. I thought that is what this option is for.

If I can verify that it doesn't function as designed I'll have to resort to workarounds.

[Neilw_05]

Thanks for verifying Joe. I'll file a support request to get it looked at.

[machadt]

It is not need to log a case for this I already reported.

[Neilw_05]

Thank you!