Hey Tyler;
One of my old tricks is something I discovered quite a while ago. I relate it to get to my point.
If you divide the parking stall width (set by the governing code) by the radius at the "head" or "tail" of the stall you will get angle in radians. If you have a convenient conversion button on your calculator to convert from radians to degrees, plus one that will convert from decimal degrees to H-M-S you're all set. I remind you that you will need to pay attention to the location of the radius point whether nearest the Head or Tail of the stall in relationship to convex or concave curves to get the right minimum width at the narrowest point.
Once you have the second stall stripe figured out using this angle above, you can use Grips to Copy the second one Based on the Center of the Arc, and using the Head or Tail of the first stripe (determined by concave or convex curve condition) as the second point of the Reference selection set (the Center being the first). You can Copy as many as you need in this fashion.
But I'm glad that I waited to send this until I tried it out myself, because the first part would have produced what's commonly referred to as a Blunder. It would have produced stalls that were only about half the width we normally use at 9 feet. So adding in the 9 foot perpendicular to the first stripe produced the following for a concave example...
and this for a convex example...
If you had the convex criteria, then you may have figured out that both of the minimum width measurements on the second stall are necessary to produce the correct angle based on the Tail being the second reference point of that selection set.
I would not recommend attempting to get an exact width measurement for the copies, based on the Law of Diminishing Returns. :-)
HTH
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Don Reichle
"King Of Work-Arounds"
Barghausen Consulting Engineers
Kent, WA USA
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"TCEBob" wrote in message news:41ee9592_2@newsprd01...
> If the curve is long enough, whether angled or straight in it's probably
> acceptable to assign the angle to the line's intersection with the curb. The
> stalls will splay out, but not enough to make parking difficult. On a tight
> curve, where the stalls would radiate like fan blades, I suggest making them
> rectilinear and striping in the gores.
>
> I have not seen a local regulation that addresses the condition. You might look
> at the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
> http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/kno-millennium.htm
>
> rs
>
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