Distance between 2 entities along an alignment or at intervals

[Roadapple]

What I am trying to do is determine how wide the existing shoulder is for a stretch of highway.  I would like to produce documentation that has the width between the lane edge and the pavement edge at regular intervals/alignment chainage.

The lane edge and pavement edge survey shots are chained together as a 3dpolyline, respectfully.

I found how to get the minimum distance, but I would like it for the entire stretch of highway.

Thanks,

[TerryDotson]

If you were to consider third party add-ons, DotSoft's C3DTools contains an Alignment Sample Figures tool.  Simply select the Alignment, toggle on the named figures (FeatureLines) and build the table of samples by station range.  One click export to Excel, Word, etc.

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[Neilw_05]

This is just an idea. I haven't run any tests, nor do I know the specifics for the workflow. My idea is to create a profile view with bands showing the offsets of the pavement and shoulder edges. A separate band would calc the difference in the offsets to give the shoulder width. Be aware the widths would be perpendicular to whatever baseline is used, which may not be the shortest distance.

[Roadapple · Accepted solution]

Thanks all but I figured out a solution.

I just used sample lines where the lane edge and pavement edge were converted to alignments.

Creating the sample lines I used the alignment as a target and then in the sample line group properties, I copied the information from each group to a spreadsheet and removed the unwanted information and performed a calculation to subtract the pavement edge distance from the lane edge distance.

Worked like a charm.