How to make modelling perpendicular to secondary aligntment (point control) also inwards (not just outwards)?

RE: How to make modelling perpendicular to secondary aligntment (point control) also inwards (not just outwards)?

Steven Litzau — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:54:07 GMT

That would be working as designed. The nature of the corridor model using templates is a serial process, that is each point is effectively created one at a time in a series, so to get to the location on a point control, the "algorithm" has already done anything before that point...

RE: How to make modelling perpendicular to secondary aligntment (point control) also inwards (not just outwards)?

Kristoffer Pettersson — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:25:22 GMT

Hi. Yes the red line is the baseline for the corridor and you are probably right that the best idea would be to make the geomtry used for the point control the baseline instead of using a secondary alignment in this case.

I guess this was not a very good example for the use of a secondary aligntment when creating point controls. Still I do wonder my points in the template on the one side of the geometry used for point control becomes perpendicular and the ones on the other side do not.

Thanks for your thoughts and ideas.

Cheers,
Kristoffer

RE: How to make modelling perpendicular to secondary aligntment (point control) also inwards (not just outwards)?

Steven Litzau — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 13:38:49 GMT

It looks like your red line there is the baseline of the corridor. I think to get what you are looking for, you will need to use the geometry that you are using for your point control as the baseline and not use the secondary alignment functionality.

RE: How to make modelling perpendicular to secondary aligntment (point control) also inwards (not just outwards)?

Kristoffer Pettersson — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 15:33:12 GMT

Hej Steven and thank you for your reply. I do believe that I use the element that is my point control as the origin of the template already. Maybe I am doing the targeting back to the current baseline wrong. Though all the points in the template somehow relate to the orgin. At least the most right point in the template that relates to the origin via horizontal and vertical distance constraints.

Maybe, as I said, I am doing the targetting back to the current baseline wrong though. Do you have any other thoughts on that? Thank you.

Kind regards,

Kristoffer

RE: How to make modelling perpendicular to secondary aligntment (point control) also inwards (not just outwards)?

Steven Litzau — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 13:04:35 GMT

Kristoffer, you would need to develop a template that uses the element that is currently your point control as its origin and then target back to the current baseline.