How can construction staging be modeled in GEOPAK SS4? Before OpenRoads, we typically had plan sheets and typical sections to show staging for lane shifts, temporary pavement, crossovers, etc. Quantity calculations were quite cumbersome for each phase. How can OpenRoads make this more efficient? Would each phase be modeled as a separate corridor? Each with its' own terrain model?
Thanks in advance,
Brian
Bentley hosted a Coffee Corner recently on this topic where the presenter does not suggest corridor clipping. Here is a link to the event: Staged Cross Sections
My understanding is it will help you generating your desired MOT phases. Clipped areas wont show on your cross sections. The only other method that I know of is creating a corridor / corridors for each phase as described by Jason Harkless above. Any temporary end conditions/pavements/etc can be done by hanging them onto temporary alignments created for each phase (perhaps along the clipped areas).
Using the Clip Mask tool would not help me in generating an MOT model though, correct? I need to create cross sections for two phases of construction and wanted to avoid remaking a lot of templates for each phase. Do you know of any other methods for clipping a model to generate phased sections?
You need to use Clip Mask tool to do it. Corridor clipping tool can only be done in an active corridor in which you use another overlapping corridor or clipping shape as clipping area.
I am currently in the process of creating staged cross sections and wanted to use this method. However, it seems the corridor clipping tool cannot be used on a referenced corridor. I have several sequential corridors that I wanted to reference into my MOT drawing and clip to cut sections. Of course I do not want to clip the original corridors, as they are the proposed design. Is the best option to create copies of the proposed corridor DGNs and clip them? I would rather not do this as I don't want to keep track of changes across these duplicate drawings. Or is there another workflow that I am missing?