Use transition profiles and transitions in your templates. There is a
routine in Road Design Tools, Road Widening, that will create the 2
transition profiles that represent your existing and proposed edge of
pavement, it also ddraws the widening on the section with labels for offset
and elevation and finnally it generates a reportshowing offset elevations
and grades for each station. View the AVI that shows the process including
attaching the alignments and profiles in Design Control
http://www.rsteltman.com/content/downloads/road_wide.avi . Road Design
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"Topher" wrote in message
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> I'm trying to do a preliminary estimate for widening a road to include a
left turn lane. On the right, there will be a new shoulder, on the left, the
road will be widened from the ex. edge to the new edge, then a 1.5m shoulder
& a ditch.
> I thought of creating a template & then attaching subassemblies, with the
first left transition being the existing edge of pavement where the widening
subassembly attaches & the first right transition being the existing edge of
pavement where the new shoulder would go. It works for the shoulder, but
subassemblies can't be streched, so the road wideing won't work.
> The only thing I can think of is to create a template for the road wideing
with the ref. point being the ex edge of road & the first transition being
the proposed edge of road. I'd then have to do something similar for the
shoulder side & create sections for the wideing & sections for the shoulder
& then add the quantities together.
> Is there a better way?
> I sure wish subassemblies could be stretched.
>
> Chris