Slope Pattern in surfaces

[marton.divenyi2]

Hi, 

We're trying to create a stepped grade in a terrai

The way did it was to create a grate to relative elevation, followed by a grade to distance, and so on until we meet the terrain, at which point we created a boundary around cut areas and added it to the grading surface. 

The result is as follows:

However, we will need to show the slope patterns on those slopes (this is government standard, so we don't really have a choice here). We can't use them from the grading objects, because those extend farther than the actual slope. 

Is there any what to show those slope patterns on the surface object?

Or if there's any other way to create this stepped grading that I can have this slope pattern showing correctly?

Any help is appreciated

Thanks 

[tcorey]

You could delineate an alignment along the grading line, create a design profile, then create a corridor, using a Daylight Bench subassembly.

[jameshitt · Accepted solution]

Agree with tcorey, I think Corridors would give you more possibilities. It will still be some trial and error to get there, but I don't know if Grading tools would be any help with this.

Also what exactly do you mean by slope patterns? A kind of hatching that only appears on surfaces areas of a particular slope range? Or perhaps those markings that you will often see going along top-of-slope and bottom-of-slope lines?

Possibly by setting a slope range in your Surface Properties you might get something close to what you want.

However, the Slopes areas on the surface will only appear as solid colors, I believe. Perhaps you could extract them and generate a boundary line and apply a hatch of your choosing.

[marton.divenyi2 · Accepted solution]

We tried the corridor solution, but it didn't work very well. The slope foot curves a lot, and in some points the subassembly grades into itself, and it gets really weird. 

The Slope pattern that I say, it's the hatch in a slope range. We managed to find the solid color visualization, were wondering if there was a way to turn it into a hatch, but apparently we can't. 

I'm thinking the best solution is to just use a lisp to draw the slope patterns as we did when we used only autocad. 
Thanks for the help, gents. 😃