Ramanan R's Activities

How to turn on and off Civil exaggeration in the view attributes?

Alex White — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:01:26 GMT

I have two drawings, one with the option to change the civil exaggeration in the view attributes and one without. I dont know how it got turned on or how to turn it off.

Corridor is processed even after Locking

Ramanan R — Wed, 24 May 2023 12:28:51 GMT

I am using openroads 2021 Release 2.

I lock the corridor once the edits are done to avoid it processing. But whenever i open dynamic cross sections view, the corridor gets processed. The time taken to process is much larger than the time taken to process when i was just editing with the dynamic cross section view closed.

Any Insights / suggestions will be helpful

End Condition Exception - Components Distorted

Ramanan R — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:33:26 GMT

I have a template with pavement layers extended to End Conditions. I have applied end condition (Override) and removed "check for interception" from fill component. The constraints of the marked points are getting removed in the end condition exception (override) window . Even after providing the constraints again, the points lose the constraints every time the end condition over ride window is opened.

When the corridor is processed, the adjacent components are not matching. THe Vertical marked points are duplicated.

Any Help on how to use the end condition exception in such circumstance is appreciated. Please Advise

End COndition Exception Parent Component Relationship

Ramanan R — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:51:28 GMT

Hi,

I have a corridor which has a berm and end condition arises from the berm. I had made the end conditions as child component of the Berm. When I apply end condition exception, the end conditions do not respect the parent child relationship. The end condition is displayed even at locations where the berm is turned off. I had also redefined the Parent component in the end condition exception window and the result is the same

Doesn't open roads consider the parent component which are not defined as end conditions if End condition exception is applied.

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Create Cut Fill Volume - Unsuitable Material Takes long time

Ramanan R — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:57:18 GMT

Greetings

I am using openroads 2020 Release 2 for a project . I am creating Cut fill volumes from Civil Analysis. I have only 5-6 short corridors (100-200m long) to analyze which is in an attachment file. I have also ensured there is not any unwanted reference files with huge terrain.

I have clipped existing terrain to the extents of the corridor and removed the rules. The unsuitable material is the top 150mm of existing ground. I had applied a surface template on the clipped existing terrain for unsuitable material.

When i create cut fill volume the process is quick if I don't toggle on calculate unsuitable material. But it runs forever if I toggle it on.

Any suggestion or insight will be helpful. Thanks.

Key Station

Ramanan R — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:18:01 GMT

Hi,

I am new to openroads desginer. I have been working with Inroads SS10 and SS2 earlier.

A variation i noticed in ORD , point control start and end chainages do not add additional drop points to the corridor. Key stations have to be added.

I am stuck with Linear template. There is no option to add additional point / Key stations. Due to template not dropped at the point control start end locations the model does not look complete. Gaps are formed.

How do i add key stations to Linear template or add Event point to the alignment.

I am using Openroads 2020 release 2

Thanks in advance.

Why is Measure Length giving me an inaccurate length?

Benjamin Ankrom — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 14:37:51 GMT

ORD 2020 R3 10.09.00.91

Hello,

I'm running into an issue where my "Measure Length" tool is giving me an incorrect value. I am trying to measure a length of conduit, but it is giving me a length double of what the actual length is. I had it defined as an offset partial off the back of a sidewalk. Has anyone ever run into this before? It's an issue if I can't trust the measure tools.

Thanks!

Ben

Major alterations to alignments and geometry

Ken Bagnall — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 11:41:46 GMT

I've been learning the alignment (horizontal and vertical) and geometry tools, creating useful relationships to enable easy changes later.

The only thing I'm unsure about is the approach to making major changes to alignments and geometry.

I know you can make some changes with the existing elements and there is the insert vertex tool but if I need to add in or replace elements in the middle of an alignment to make major changes how should this be done?

I could drop the complex element using the Microstation tool and then make the changes but then I break all the geometric relationships based on this alignment e.g. channel geometry. There is a similar issue with general geometry too as I assume there isn't a way to re-establish relationships for geometry after it's created e.g. need to replace the alignment which breaks the offset to the channels, replace the channel geometry and the relationship to other geometry is broken too etc.

As an addition, is it possible to physically move a whole alignment along with the associated elements together e.g. moving a whole pond from one place to another.

Regards,

Ken.

Super elevation Point control does not work

Ramanan R — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:23:15 GMT

I have been facing a problem with super elevation for some months now.

The Alignment , corridor and superelevation are in different files. More often, the corridor file does not reflect the super elevation. The point control window in Corridor objects show the Superelevation controls, the dynamic cross section show the magenta points for superelevation, but the corridor lanes does not get rotated for the superelevation values.

The issue gets sorted out randomly, some times closing and reopening the files, reattach corridor, reattach reference, reapply superelevation. There is no particular way. But it gets sorted out on any of the mentioned actions. Sometimes it does not get sorted at all.

This is consuming a huge un productive time. Please help me if anyone has a solution for the problem. This problem was faced by other members in the team too.

I am using OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition - 2020 Release 2 integrated with projectwise.

Delete / Edit End condition exception

Ramanan R — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:49:45 GMT

Hi,

I am using OPenRoads 2020 release2. I had applied an nd condition over ride in my corridor. I did not get any error upon creating . Now after few days i am trying to Edit the extents. I am able to vary the chainage extents . Upon processing the corridor i get a message "Object Reference not set to an instance of an object". The change i made does not happen.

I get the same message upon deleting the End condition exception. It does ot get deleted. All i am able to do is change the End Condition override to Back Bone Only . I dont want to redo the corridor.

If anyone can throw some light on why such errors happen will be helpful.

Thanks

Terrain Model Boundary Problem

Dick Chng — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 22:26:34 GMT

This is for PowerGEOPAK SS10

I don't think this is a unique problem but I can't seem to find any answer on it. The terrain model I was working on had a boundary created from Extract Graphic and I manipulate the boundary and it just expands to it as expected. A day passed and when I get back to working on the terrain model, it seems to have disconnected from the boundary line that I was able to work with. Thinking it might not be that big of a deal - I could just recreate the boundary and continue my work but the tool doesn't let me. It is saying "Terrain Model doesn't have a source boundary".

So if the Terrain Model doesn't have a boundary, I should be able to extract graphic and have a boundary to work with. However, using the 'Create Terrain Model Boundary' tool - I get the error saying "Terrain already has a source boundary". So which is it? If I were to reimport my terrain model my work would be lost so that's not an option.

Has anyone had this issue before? Am I out of luck or am I missing something here? The boundary line has already been deleted.

Remove Deleted Element from Surface

Ramanan R — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:29:28 GMT

Hi,

I am using Power inroads SS10. I have attached a dgn with smart elements and corridor. I created surface in the active file from the referenced file.

When i delete few features in the referenced file, the deleted features does not go away from the surface, inspite of updating the reference.

Please help if there is a wasy to remove deleted features from the surface.

Thanks

Ramanan

Error on moving Handle - Inroads SS10

Ramanan R — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 12:25:15 GMT

Hi ,

I had created a Horizontal offset element from another element.

I created a fillet from the horizontal offset element to another element.

I have to change a design and i need to extend horizontal offset extents, am trying to click the start/end station handle and trying to extend i get an error as below

Am not sure what this error is about. The file hangs and i have to force close it.

Any light on the error shall be of great help

Thanks,

Ramanan

POint Control - Element Not valid for tool

Ramanan R — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 06:58:30 GMT

I am trying to create a point control for an End condition point. I am using "linear geometry" option and selected a corridor line (of a different corridor from a referenced DGN).

On trying to select the target line, i get a pop up message "element not valid for tool". on trying "feature definition" option in point control, there is no change in the corridor (Corridor reference was added prior to point control.)

Please help