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Cross Section - Custom line styles

John Wright — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:39:30 GMT

I’ve created a new feature definition for an existing pavement terrain- as per our standards, the existing pavement terrain will be shown as a custom line style that is to be included with out cross section.

From the below, I am having some trouble displaying this line style within the cross section (cyan colour line), The line style lib is attached to the files and can draw lines using the line style. are there any tips on why I cant display the line style within the cross section? Using the ustn standard line style (1-7) work great and these are shown when i update the element template, however im getting no luck with displaying the custom line 'SECT Pavement)

Update to Vertical Alignment during revision to Horizontal Alignment

Babulal Sahu — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 00:12:43 GMT

In ORD, I have a 10km road alignment, Start Station:0+000, End Station: 10+000

When I tried to revise the Horizontal Alignment between km 4+000 to 5+000, The vertical Profile Levels of the unchanged Horizontal portions also revised automatically.

In Mx , when we revise the horizontal alignment, the vertical alignment elements for the effected portion deleted, we need to revise the vertical alignment, but the vertical profile levels at unchanged portion does not change.

Actually, Vertical alignment levels, for the unaffected portion of the Horizontal alignment , During Horizontal alignment revision should not have changed in ORD

Request for your kind help in this regard.

Regards

Babulal Sahu

Sight distance checks to incorporate 3D line styles

John Wright — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 23:50:50 GMT

Hi all,

Using the sight distance check tool in ORD 2020 R3 - is there a way to also incorporate any 3D line styles that we have created for barriers?. My initial thought would be to potentially add in a stroke pattern at the 0,0 origin of the 3D line style, a 2nd point 0.100,0.800, and a 3rd point 0.200, 0 within the 3D line string . (these points reflex the dims of a FGF with a 200mm system width)… Are there any other ideas or work arounds to get these 3d line style more useful for design check

IMPORTING/ ATTACHING SHAPEFILES IN OPENROADS

Timothy Racine — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:23:46 GMT

We are trying to import shape files into Open roads but we keep getting an error when we try to import or reference in. This process worked in In-roads no problem but we can't do it in Open roads. Any in-site would be great.

3D Line Style - Post located at end of beam

John Wright — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:09:15 GMT

Hi All, I've had a bit of trouble creating a 3D line style, this is originally for ORD 2019 Update 2, however i had some initial problems selecting a 'Base Stroke Pattern', so i've brought this back to Microstation SS3.

Question 1) will there be issues with compatibility from SS3 .rsc and ORD, i imagine it could be visual issues in terms of materials?

Question 2) I've tried for the life of me to located a post at the end of the guard rail beam. The current post spacing 2m centers, is there a way to place a post at spaces between 0m and 2m?

Question 3) ive noticed the first post that gets placed seems to have edges shown in Col 0, - from the screen shot you can see the subsequent post does not have this edging to it, is there a way to remove the edging from the first post?

Question 4) being a noob to line style customisation, Ss there a way to clean up my 'point symbols, as ive used ROAD 3D FGF POST LHS and 3D FGF BEAM LHS - My OCD can just about deal with it, but it will be good if i can clean this up.

Thanks in advance

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View Grid values of a delta surface

John Wright — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 04:37:37 GMT

Hi All

Using Openroads, is there a way to view grided values of a delta surface? in SS2, this was pretty easy in terms of generating an isopach and then viewing the values in text format on a grid.

The thematic height and updates to the view display is really cool in ORD, but ideally a 'number' format will be a lot easier to present the detail to the client - This would be more for the civil-type projects like parking lots, building plateau ect

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Uncomplex Profile

Brian Chase — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:54:41 GMT

I have a vertical profile that I have made complex. I need to make many edits and want to uncomplex it or take the complex off and revert back to the element pieces. How do I do this without starting over or using undo?

Openroad Superelevation not applied

Kbb9327 — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:56:53 GMT

Hello all,

I assigned Superelevation to corridor but when i generate report level difference not showing as per superelevation. i created cross section where superelevation has been seen.

i am not getting where it went wrong.

Annotate Cross Section

Carla Pasquali — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 22:10:33 GMT

Hello: I need to include distance and elevation data in the cross section exactly every 10 meters. how can I get it?

Until now I´ve only got variable distances, as shown in the picture.

Thanks, regards.

Carla

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Thu, 16 Jul 2020 06:25:21 GMT

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Out put to view vertical data on plan

John Wright — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 06:24:42 GMT

It would be good to annotation on plan where crests or sag curves are located along the horizontal plan.

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How to output ORD cross sections as per native format

John Wright — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 01:59:42 GMT

Hi All

I am try to figure out if there are ways possible to output cross section in Openroads Designer as per the native / traditional layout we had in SS4. I.e output to one model view but with multiple sheets

From this output, our CAD team would then create drawings by simply xrefing this into a drawing file, move the boarder and 'clip' to show each individual sheet per drawing file. This would be done at a stage where our models are frozen.

The attached image, is an example of what we produced in SS4, but i have removed the annotation for clarity.

If there are any workflows or workarounds that will be great - As a standard our cross section are cut every 20m, so in terms of how many cross sections drawings we need for a project could be not many to a LOT :)

Cannot figure out how to make cross sections SS3

Joseph Mekaeil — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:33:33 GMT

I'm trying to cut cross sections of my horizontal alignment which is preloaded in an .alg file. Here's the process i follow:

1.) I "View Active Horizontal" in order to display my horizontal alignment.

2.) I click "Create Cross Sections" under the Corridor Modeling task.

3.) It then prompts me to select the alignment graphic...i click on the line generated in the first step.

4.) I set my intervals and all the settings

5.) It opens up a new model but this model is blank. No cross sections were generated. I tried to Fit to View but there is simply no info.

Note: After selecting the alignment in step 3, the dialog does not read out the alignments name which leads me to think that it didn't really select it. Photo attached below.