subassembly of half a flat bottom ditch

[Anonymous]

I am working on redoing a ditch.  need to create an assembly of a ditch, just a ditch.  

Not a ditch attached to a roadway.

I was thinking of half of a flat bottom ditch with side at 3 to 1 and then assembly as left and right.

cant find one.  tried to make one out of a polyline but can figure out how to attach it to the assembly left and right?

[Hidden_Brain]

If you have a ditch centerline alignment and profile, you can create it using the generic width and slope subassembly (W&S) and slope to surface (S2S). the assembly will be the ditch centerline, two W&S set the slope to zero for each half of the ditch bottom, two additional W&S for the side slopes with slopes set to as reuquired, and then from top of banks, two S2S at desired slopes to target the existing ground.

[Anonymous]

This will work!  I dont see this on my screen.....and when i attach slope to surface ti doesnt attach to the left or right width and slope in the tool space, it attaches to the base line

[Hidden_Brain]

When you place the slope to surface, click on the magenta circle at the top of bank instead of the centerline blue assembly marker.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I dont see anything except a vertical line and a circle in the middle.....i dont see what he had the image of in the post.

[Hidden_Brain]

What you see is probably the assembly. Open up tool palettes, go to generic, there you can select width and slope and slope to surface sibassemblies. Use them multiple times to create the ditch assembly.

[Anonymous]

the picture you included in your first response does not look like what i have on my screen.....i can see my width and slope to attach the second part to the right place....just started here, dont know how the computer is set up....

[wfberry]

Perhaps you have never done an Assembly.

The Assembly that H B showed you has 3 parts (subassemblies) on each side of the Assembly.  You have to attach each one, one at a time.  Perhaps check out a YouTube.

Bill

[Anonymous]

i ended up using a roadway sub assembly and a shoulder .....i could see them on my screen and could attach them correctly....i just modified the properties...