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[OR IR] Secondary Alignment Not "Bending" Components

caddcop
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I am working on a corridor that uses secondary alignments. The location I need the components to bend at is not at a point control location, so my secondary alignment is only a secondary alignment and not a point control.

I found it necessary to rework the alignment and am much more comfortable with the Native InRoads tools, like the Horizontal and Vertical Element tools. So I exported to native, made my edits and then re-imported the alignment from General Geometry > Import Geometry (W - 1)

Since doing this, all of the secondary alignment settings using this alignment no longer appear to be functioning. I even tried removing one and recreating it, but it had no effect.

Any ideas as to why this is occurring.

Also, why is there no Enabled/Disabled setting for Secondary alignments?

And for all of the various settings in corridor modifiers, it would be nice if they all had locate buttons like was in the Roadway Designer dialog boxes. To be able to manually pick a different alignment and/or station by clicking in a view would improve usability greatly.

  • 0 Offline
    After you re-imported your alignment, how did you reattach the corridor to it?



  • 0 Offline in reply to Jacquelyn Pettus
    How do you re-attach if the filename appears unchanged. When I tried deleting and recreating one of the secondary alignment instances and created an XML Report, the Control OID in the XML file for the three station ranges the secondary alignment is used all reported the same codes.
    Also, in trying to figure this out, I divided the alignment into two and using the new segments, I am getting different results depending upon the alignment.
    The area of the first secondary alignment is bending as desired at an edge of gutter pan, using the alignment at the bottom of curb with a 1.333' offset (the width of the gutter pan). The same alignment is also a Horizontal point control but is applied with no offset as it is correctly located at the bottom of curb and the component that is bending is defined such that moving the bottom of curb moves the entire curb.
    The next secondary alignment is applied at the same template point - bottom of curb with the same offset, 1.333' and is also used as a Horizontal point control. At this location, the component is not bending at the edge of gutter pan but appears to bend at the bottom of curb. The template is not the same template as the curb on the side away from these controls gets a different type of curb. But the curb and gutter component where the bending is desired is identical in both templates.

    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996
  • 0 Offline in reply to caddcop

    When you import your geometry back into OpenRoads, try using the Corridor Reattach keyin to re-associate the corridor with the imported geometry.

    http://communities.bentley.com/products/road___site_design/w/road_and_site_design__wiki/28223.video-corridor-reattach



  • 0 Offline in reply to Jacquelyn Pettus
    My corridor alignment is OK, it is only secondary alignments that are acting up. So this is not the tool I need.

    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996
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