Profile Creation Problem in Power Civil

Hi good day to all, iam very new in Bentley applications. I created some alignments and surface. After that when I am trying to create a profile, it shows “NO TRANGLES FOUND IN SURFACE” could anybody please help.

Regards

DK

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  • Thank you for your help…..

    Let me explain how I created the surface

    1. I opened the power civil by double clicking the desktop icon
    2. The dialog box is appearing for file open I select the new file option from the top, left fide of the Bentley icon and given a file name LEARNING-1 and save. I choose the seed file from (C:\ProgramData\Bentley\PowerCivil V8i (SELECT series 4)\WorkSpace\system\seed\seed2d.dgn)
    3. Then I selected the LEARNING-1 file and open.
    4. When the file is opened from the menu power civil tool I click Explorer show/ hide
    5. Select the surface tab, from the surface tree right click chose new, type –existing, name - LEARNING-1, Description- LEARNING-1 , then apply and close. Under default LEARNING-1 is created with a red rectangle.
    6. Right click and set active
    7. Now, from the Task-Terrain Model (in the Q division) I chose create from ASCII file and selected the survey data
    8. Create terrain model from ASCII file dialog ax is displayed. From that create text import settings from the columns feature type select as points, space tick, easting, northing, elevation selected, then click next, next, finish
    9. Save text import wizard is come up and I saved the file as LEARNING-1 then click the import icon.
    10. Surface is created, but when I select the surface LEARNING-1 . contours, triangles and everything in the right side is “0”

    Could you please tell me where I did the mistake, and help?

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  • It sounds like you are using InRoads SS3 or SS4. Is that correct? It also sounds like you are creating an "InRoads" Surface and and "OpenRoads" Surface (Terrain). They are not the same thing. If you are using InRoads SS3 or SS4, you are working with a transitional version of the software that is part InRoads and part OpenRoads. Creating and OpenRoads Terrain doesn't automatically create an InRoads surface. That may be your basic confusion. Are you just trying to learn this software, or use it on a project in a production environment? SS3 and / or SS4 are not good versions to begin learning on. I would recommend either InRoads SS2 or OpenRoads Designer CONNECT.

     
    Civilly yours,
    The Zen Dude (also known as "Mark")
    Civil Software Guru & Philosopher
    InRoads User since its birth in the 80's
    OpenRoads Documentation / Training / Support
    Zen Engineering, Owner
  • i am using 

    Bentley PowerCivil for Middle East V8i (SELECTseries 4) 

  • Okay. Someone else will have to chime in to help you with the specifics then because I skipped the SS3 / SS4 transitional versions and am using either SS2 or OpenRoads Designer CE. But if you are creating the Terrain in OpenRoads you'll need to export it to an InRoads DTM to do what you want. ... or just create it in InRoads instead of the OpenRoads Terrain route.

     
    Civilly yours,
    The Zen Dude (also known as "Mark")
    Civil Software Guru & Philosopher
    InRoads User since its birth in the 80's
    OpenRoads Documentation / Training / Support
    Zen Engineering, Owner
  • Mark is on the right track. In the Ss3/Ss4 versions you have to execute some commands using the Traditional InRoads tools and others using the Open Roads tools. Profiles are one that needs to use the InRoads tools and needs InRoads data to function.

    You seem to have the alg file containing alignment data, but you also need to fill a DTM with terrain data. While Open Roads provides a method to automatically write alg, it does not provide the same for DTM's. In the terrain tasks ant it's popup menu, is an export surface tool to write terrain data to the traditional applications, like InRoads. You could also export to LandXML. The export tools always create a new file. They cannot update an existing file only overwrite one. If you already have a DTM but its empty using LandXML might be the best option as you can import the LandXML into the InRoads DTM.

    Also ALG and DTM's in InRoads are saved in memory until written out to a file. 

    BTW most Power Civil for [country] are based upon InRoads. There are GEOPAK based versions, too. Ss4 is the last version of any InRoads/GEOPAK/MX based version. They all contain some Open Roads components. The next version for any of those users is Open Roads Designer which has no traditional Bentley Civil Products tools.


    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