Hi all,
I'm looking for ideas on how you would approach this situation that I am in. I'm doing a medium size subdivision (130 lots). I've run my corridor out to the ROW and made a Surface from that. Now I have to do lot grading (yes the engineer wants this - I think its stupid since we're just designing to a maximum footprint and it WILL change when the developer starts placing houses on the lots). But anyways, I have 3 scenarios:
A. Level Land - no basement (Rancher-style house)
B. Walkout with full basement exposed at back of house
C. Walkout with only Basement patio exposed and then shoots back up to grade.
So with those scenarios, here is my workflow:
1. I know what the elevation is at the ROW. From the ROW and center of driveway)I go 5% up to house pad (All driveways are constant 20' long)
2. The Basement level is -7.5' from original elevation.
3. I draw a feature line around the footprint and set elevations.
4. I use FL offset and offset by .01 to show the basement. I set that elevation.
5. I add these FL as Brealines in my surface. It draws the countours.
Only 129 more to go.... It iis my REAL wish that this whole scenario could be tied together with the corridor so that if the road changes, the pads to too. Or if this is too much of a wish then I would like to see a GROUPING of some sortfor the 2 FL's. If the pad elevation changes, the basement will automatically adjust.
I've played with Grading objects a bit and after 4 FE recoveries, I gave up on that!
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Anyone have any other methods, recommendations, etc.?
Thanks,
Rick
Thanks,
Rick
coauthor Mastering Civil 3D 2012
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