Need advice: swap corridor from another file

[Neilw_05]

I have a site that has a road connecting to grading pad. We had to evaluate an alternate route for the road which I did in a separate file. I now need to swap out the old road with the new one in the active design file. There are numerous alignments, transitions, targets, regions, etc. associated with the new road. I don't like using a data shortcut for the corridor since it is a cumbersome workflow. What would be a good way to get it into my design file?

[rl_jackson]

In this case wouldn't using a data shortcut and then promoting the DS to the file you want it in work?

[Neilw_05]

Thanks, but you can't promote corridors. If you know otherwise please explain how.

[rl_jackson]

I was thinking of all the stuff that built it. profile alignment etc.

[Neilw_05]

Right but then I have to recreate the corridor with all the regions, targeting, transitions, etc. Not fun.

[rl_jackson]

I'm not sure that will copy paste. Not tried that before. Assuming the target is the same, it could be OK

[Neilw_05]

Copy paste is a no. I was told you can paste the file as a block but C3D chokes when I try that.

[Joe-Bouza · Accepted solution]

INSERT and explode? Maybe with Civil3d as AutoCAD

[Neilw_05]

I might have found success with the insert block approach. Will follow up tomorrow.

[nkiakas]

Hi @Neilw_05 

Long time ago i found an external application (i don't remember name/company).

This app is saving ALL corridor information (targets+regions) in excel file and of course you can do the reverse, to load corridor information from excel file.

I did not try it, and of course if it works, assumes the recreation of surfaces+alignments+profiles+assemblies (objects can be imported with XML files, maybe some of them need renaming)

[Neilw_05 · Accepted solution]

Update: I was able to successfully insert the corridor dwg as a block into a new dwg and verified everything seems to be intact.

In previous attempts, Civil 3d would get stuck in processing the import and I would have to kill the process. I went ahead and erased all non-essential elements such as profile and section views, surfaces, xref's etc. After that the insert processed very quickly. Being this is a simple, short corridor without a lot of sheets, it is not a big deal to recreate the profile views, etc. so I am happy with this solution.

You are right Joe, I used the wrong terminology in my earlier post about pasting the dwg as a block. I meant Insert as a block.