Hello Everyone,.
I have a design specification where I made an assembly with 3 layers pavement (sub-assembly) shown in the picture attached, and I need to set the corridor surface boundaries right, so I can get the fill area required in the design as shown in the picture. I tried many boundaries type such as links & featured links I even made sub-assembly using subassimbly composer, but same result I couldn't get the fill area to look right as in the picture
Peter, my problem is not that I don't know how to make corridor and surfaces (Ngl & corridor surface) I already did the principals and actually calculated earthwork and viewed them in section views. the question is that I want my fill area to be below the sub-base but also covers the empty spaces above pavement lyres (base & sub-base) as illustrated in the pic with original post. here is how my fill area looks like, which is not what want !
Ok, back at my PC this morning so will add a little more detail to previous posts.
Below image shows your corridor section with 5 red dots. These points or links between them need to be added to the new corridor surface. This new surface will follow your earthworks and underside of sub-base.
Image below shows corridor properties dialog box with Surfaces tab selected. The example shown has two surfaces for a simple track. In my particular case, the base surface includes the earthworks and bottom of track construction, the other surface only has the track materials. In your situation you probably have one surface for your finished levels, and you need a new one to include the points at the locations of the red dots on the section above. You can do this by selecting links, or by selecting the relevant feature lines and adding them to the surface. And don't forget to add a boundary else dodgy triangulation will mess up your surface and your quantities.
I did before mention that if your corridor surface name settings are set to corridor name you may notice that when clicking on new surface as below, nothing happens.
You will either need to rename your current surface in the surfaces tab of the corridor before clicking the new surface button, or you will need to update your naming template. This can be accessed by using the third of the three buttons as below.
This will open up the naming template.
You want to edit the settings to match below (or any other preference).
Now when clicking on the button to create a new surface it will do so with the corridor name and a counter.
Once you have created a new surface to bottom of sub-base, check it to ensure things look as they should, then target this surface in your materials table.
Hopefully the above will fix your problem but if not let me know and we'll try something else.
Regards,
Peter
Peter, First of all thank you for taking the time and replying to my post. Now I did exactly what you told me to do so, which is what actually did before but this time I added another corridor surface as you told, and codded the points (red dotes). I called my other "new" Surface Earth work and here it is with point Codes needed
Then I added boundaries
@Anonymous Now, after that result I got I tried one different thing . I did All the Same steps but this time I ordered the points in the surface boundaries by right click on the surface then I choose " add automatically" then I started ordering my points as shown here :
but the result is that it did not get my fill and cut hatch .
@Anonymous here I tried a Surface from Poly line and here is how it looked
Fill
CUT
here is my poly-line that I created Surface from
@Anonymous if you were looking down onto your section from the top, the polyline you have shown would overlap itself. It links to the top edge of road and then comes back on itself to link to bottom of sub-base. A surface cannot overlap itself under any circumstances which is why it is not working for you. I admit that I am not always the best at explaining myself and so there may well be a little confusion.
As an example I built an assembly, corridor and materials template to try and show what I mean. The first image "Section 1" shows the resulting sections. The grey solid hatch is the road materials, the yellow solid hatch is the verge fill (though you could show with same fill hatch), the green hatch is the main earthworks fill, and the red hatch is the main earthworks cut. In my case I set up the cut to include all cut to bottom of sub-base, which includes the road materials and the yellow verge area. The green fill hatch is shown to follow the earthworks and the bottom of sub-base. You will notice that it does not include the yellow verge area, I have shown this separately in the materials.
The "Section 1-Finished Level" image shows how this surface was set up to follow finished profile. "Section 1-Main EW" shows how that surface was set up to follow earthworks and bottom of sub-base. "Section 1-Verge EW" shows how this surface incorporates the missing area at the verge.
The "Corridor 1" image shows how the surfaces were set up in the corridor. The Finished Level and Main EW surfaces have a boundary set to Corridor Shrinkwrap. The Verge EW has a boundary set to the edge of verge (EW1 in my example).
The "Materials 1" image shows the individual items which is probably how I would report the data as the verge EW fill would be completed as part of the road construction after the road materials were laid.
My test sections work fine here, I just hope I've managed to explain it properly.
Regards,
Peter
"Section 1"
"Section 1-Finished Level"
"Section 1-Main EW"
"Section 1-Verge EW"
"Corridor 1"
"Materials 1"
@Anonymousthe red lines themselves don't actually exist as lines, they represent the surfaces in the corridor surface settings to help explain how they are all connected. I just highlighted them red to help with the explanation.
To edit codes, right click on a sub-assembly (whether standard or not) and go to subassembly properties window. As in the image below. This can only edit one subassembly at a time though. You can also access these parameters by selecting the subassembly or subassemblies and going to the standard properties window. Near the bottom is usually the option to edit or assign codes to different points and links.
In my example I just used a "GenericPavementStructure" for each of the road materials and a generic "LinkWidthAndSlope" subassembly for the verge areas. I just used a basic daylighting but you seem to have a ditch which will need to be incorporated.
Subassembly Properties
Regards,
Peter
@Anonymousalso don't forget that now you have the surfaces you can break up the materials how you like. For example, if you wanted to distinguish between how much of the verge fill area (yellow hatch in my example) is in your fill zones and cut zones you can break it up by adding another material and additional EGL (Existing ground level) parameters as below.
The hatch for the small fill area in the verge can now be reported separately for fill and cut zones, it could also be displayed differently on your sections if required by changing the shape styles.
Regards,
Peter
