Crossing corridor lines on a sidewalk

[JoeKidd33]

I have a sidewalk design that we are using a corridor with a LaneOutsideSuper subassembly and the links of the corridor are crossing over each other in areas where the walk deflects. See attached image. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

[Joe-Bouza]

For this scenario you may want to use an off-set assembly for the sidewalk? Tough to tell from the image if the sw is a sub assembly of the main. One thin gfor sure: corridors do not like kinks in the alignment.

[Anonymous]

What if you were to create an alignment and profile at the outside edge of your sidewalk and targeted the subassembly to it? I think that ought to do it.

[JoeKidd33]

I already tried the target alignment at the edge of the sidewalk. The baseline alignment runs along the north edge of the walk. I added the transition alignment to the south edge. No dice.

[tcorey · Accepted solution]

If you are using Civil 3D 2017, you can create your Corridor using a Feature Line for the baseline. If changes in direction are angle points, not curves, then the program will clean up these overlaps/bowties.

[Anonymous]

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@tcorey wrote:

If you are using Civil 3D 2017, you can create your Corridor using a Feature Line for the baseline. If changes in direction are angle points, not curves, then the program will clean up these overlaps/bowties.

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I just attempted this using 2017. I created 2 simple corridors, one with a feature line and one with an alignment. They both cleaned up the angle when I did it. Are you using an earlier version, OP?

[JoeKidd33]

Yes, we are using 2015, but moving to 2017 in January.