Section view not displaying corridor

[jwhal]

Using 2012, latest SP. I have a master drawing @ 1:500 with alignment, prof's, corr, etc. I have a second drawing @ 1:200 to be used for section views. I've data referenced the alignment, prof's, srf's, etc. I've created the section views in the section view dwg and xref'd the master dwg.

My problem is that the corridor model will not display in section views anywhere along a spiral in the 1:200 dwg. It displays fine everywhere else along the alignment. Just not spirals.

I have section views in the master drawing that will display the corridor just fine in section view at these same stations along the spirals.

Bug with Acad/dref's?

Thanks,

Jon

[tcorey]

Just to be sure, you're sampling sections From Corridor Stations, not By Range of Stations?

[MikeEvansUK]

Are you sectioning in the same file as the corridor. Model, you need to.

[jwhal]

Tcorey - The first thing I did was made sure the corridor sampling matched the sample lines. I even added the affected stations in the frequency section of the corridor.

Mike - I'm going from memory, but I thought the corridor model was supposed to come through with the xref, since there is no dref for it; which it does for all stations except for those on a spiral. I did not create the corridor in the second file (didn't want to re-create it).

I've also audited/recovered each file, just to be sure.

I've since moved the sections views back to the same drawing. The project has to get done at some point 🙂

I appreciate the responses.

Thanks,

Jon

[MikeEvansUK]

Dang! I have never tried that as it didn't used to work, you get used to a workflow which does.

I stand corrected, Sectioning a Xreffed Corridor does work in R2013. I'll try 2012 at some point.

[Lisa_Pohlmeyer]

Mike,

It works in 2012 also

[Lisa_Pohlmeyer]

Jon,

When you say you moved your section views back to the same drawing, which drawing? I don't often work with spirals and I want to check out your work flow a little further.

[BrianHailey]

I'm seeing something similar. In the image you'll see two cross sections of the same corridor, one in a spiral the other in a curve. You can see the daylight lines show up in the curve but not the spiral.

CLICK HERE FOR IMAGE

This was done with the alignment data referenced in and the corridor xrefed in and sample lines created "From Corridor Stations" and not "By Range of Stations...".

Seems to work fine in 2013.

[jwhal]

Lisa,

I originally created the sample lines and section views in the one drawing. I wanted to have them in a separate drawing, so I created a second "section.dwg" for sample lines and views. This second drawing is the one that doesn't show the corridor on the spirals. I settled on creating another set of sample lines/views in the original drawing to work with for now. This will do, but I wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing something or that this is a known bug.

Jon

[jwhal]

Hi Brian,

So, 2013 works fine?

I believe I used "range of stations" whenever I created the sample lines. I don't think I ever chose "from corridor stations", as I didn't want a whole bunch of useless-to-me sample lines/section views (I was sampling along an existing surface profile at first).

In my case, no parts of the corridor show up in the sections along the spiral. As an addition, I even tried changing all "free/floating" objects to "fixed" in the alignment too, just in case.

Thanks,

Jon

[quinndbq]

Hello John.

Have you ever found a solution to this problem?  I am able to recreate the same scenario on a project that I am looking at.  The section views do not display in areas where I have spirals, but only in the cross section sheet drawing, and not the parent drawing where the corridor resides.

[jwhal]

I had originally given up on this issue, finished the project and moved on to other work. I completely forgot about it, to be honest. I just opened the "section.dwg" with the xref'd corridor, and for whatever reason it now works. At this point I don't know what I would have done to correct the problem. The X-sections weren't a requirement for the final production drawing set, so it sort of worked out.

The only thing I might have done since was manually enter intermediate stations/cross slopes along the spiral and curve in the superelevation editor for superelevation. This is a stretch, and I may have had that done prior to my initial post, but is really the only thing I can think of.

I'm still on 2012 Sp 2.1. I'm not sure if the latest SP addresses this or not (if it is indeed a bug).

I'm afraid I can't be of more help.

Jon

[Anonymous]

I have the same problem. In new dwg I dataref Alignmen and xref corridor , then great sample line and cross sections, everything is ok , but in spirals my cross sections doesn't show whole corridor. Someone with solution of this problem? And sorry for my bad english