As part of the engineering drawings I need to create embankment lines (some times called piano lines or frog lines). How do I do this via the templates in open Roads.
this is what they should look like for cut and fill:
HI Martin
Can you just let us know which native civil product you are using Inroads, MX or Geopak
Thanks
Simon Pegg B.Eng (Hons) I.Eng
Civil Support Manager.
Simon beat me to asking which native product you are using, but I wanted to go ahead and give you an answer if working with InRoads. There is a tool under the native commands (Drafting > Draw Slope Direction Pattern) which will give this graphical output.
Also see this forum post communities.bentley.com/.../64196.aspx
For more information about the Road and Site design tools, visit the Road and Site design WIKI at: http://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/w/road_and_site_design__wiki
To complement Chris' answer, if you're in MX they are called slope signature strings.
You can create them under Modify>Edit Strings>Add Slope Signature Strings, and there is a Wiki Article which goes in to a bit more details.
communities.bentley.com/.../15008.mx-display-slope-signature-strings-as-tadpoles.aspx
My guess is you're using InRoads though :-)
Hi, sorry should have told you the software. I am using SS3 Geopak Civil Suite in Microstation SS3!
Hi all, any answers?
If the query relates to showing the slope indicators in the OpenRoads design rather then the native product then the answer is that this isn't possible at the moment but an enhancement has been requested to have this added.
Thanks for your response. When will we see this enhancement?
Secondly what would the process be to generate this in the native product as everything sits in OpenRoads?
I'm unable to give a time frame for when it will be implemented. You would need to send the OpenRoads design back to the native product, Geopak Civil Suite in your case and use the native tools to add the slope indicator lines.
Do you have access to the process/flow diagram of getting all the deisgn back into Geopak?
Martin,
you can use limits of construction under xs in geopak. this will give you the limits on a plan view. you will then need to use drafting tools in microstation or the draw pattern lines tool in geopak to get some of the piano lines.