Setting Targets for Corridors without confusion

[tpennerNXGJH]

Hey all,

  I have to say the tool for setting corridor targets is a terrible bit of UI.  I can't tell which target is going where.

Here's what I'm looking at;

Unfortunately it doesn't explain which is being targeted because the descriptions are so vague.  It doesn't show chainage and it doesn't show on the plan or assembly which target is referring to where.

I'm trying to set the target for each side of the sidewalk.  Here's what I'm working with in Plan view

The bright green lines are the feature line targets.  If you have any tips or tricks to make this less of a headache I'd love to hear.  Thanks!

Thanks!

[tcorey · Accepted solution]

Don't use Set All Targets. Set targets separately for each Region and your confusion level will be reduced significantly.

[m_kingdon · Accepted solution]

Two things I do to reduce the stress of corridor modeling:

1. Name your sub-assemblies.  One of those "you will thank me later" kind of tasks.

2. Use condition sub-assemblies and target polylines on specific layers. These act as a yes/no decision tree.

For example: is the orange polyline adjacent to the alignment?

Yes - use this branch of sub-assemblies

No - use the other branch of sub-assemblies

Using this technique massively reduces the need to split your corridors into multiple regions.

I hope these help!

[tpennerNXGJH]

Wow - you both rock - I never even thought of these.  They're so simple I don't know why I hadn't.  Thank you so much!

[Jeew-m]

Hi,

This would also be handy when naming subassemblies.

[neilyj666]

The corridor dialog box is probably the most poorly designed ever (although I'm led to believe it will be changing in future releases) and I use the tools that appear in the contextual ribbon. 

Jeff Bartels has a good video on this workflow Simplifying Civil 3D Corridor Modeling using Contextual Tools - YouTube