PI Rounding in Power InRoads SS3

Is there a PI rounding tool or something similar in Power InRoads SS3?

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  • Thank you for your response. Do you know of any workarounds/tips for preventing templates from crossing each other in the mean time? This has been a headache when developing models for oil and gas pipeline workpads ... they are very wide and they have long linear alignments (typically 30+ miles in each model) with several 90-degree turns.

  • You might try Civil Tools > 3D Geometry > Apply Linear Template.
    Regards,
    R. W. Bradshaw



  • Thank you for that suggestion. I tried this on one of my 30-mile alignments but it takes much longer to process than by using the corridor tool. Adjusting the sweep angle did not seem to improve performance either. I will keep this in mind as an option in cleaning up corners for shorter alignments however.

  • Sorry to bug you again.

    I am using the Terrain Model > Cut & Fill Volumes Tool and all I get in the end is a mesh object each for cut & fill. However, I cannot do what I need the tool for. I need to extract one boundary for cut and another for fill. Extracting a boundary from the mesh tools just returns garbled lines. We need to get the fill shapes only so we can determine wetlands impact (excludes cut). So ...

    1. Is there a way to extract boundaries from these meshes? We have had to drop the object into individual polygons then use ArcGIS to "dissolve" them into a boundary.

    2. The tool listed in 1 above takes a long time to process long alignments. Depending upon the machine it could be about a minute for each mile. When it comes to alignments approaching 60 miles the software provides either only cut features or fill features but not both, after processing for 30-60 minutes. This is costly computing time. Other processes such as creating cross sections and so on take only a handful of minutes (no more than 5 min.) even for alignments exceeding 60 miles. From what I have seen in the other SS3 tool sets ... this appears to be an underdeveloped tool as not much can be done with the results except display the cut & fill volume mesh. This seems like this should be a simple straightforward task ... so I also assume I may be missing something here. In the mean time are you able to recommend an alternate tool that can easily accomplish what we need?

    3. Is there a way to control the cut & fill feature meshes? We need vertices ONLY at template drops but we get vertices at template drops and existing ground triangle vertices.