Editing Profile After "Profile Complex by Elements" has been used

RE: Editing Profile After "Profile Complex by Elements" has been used

caddcop — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:28:24 GMT

That's the idea.

We are still really only using Ss10, so we can fall back to InRoads if stuck. So I have actually only use that command once or twice.

I have even been know to export to LandXML and re-import to "simplify" an alignment to where I could make simple edits to.

RE: Editing Profile After "Profile Complex by Elements" has been used

Chris Figus — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:58:00 GMT

I was worried that dropping a profile would break all the links between the alignment and the design line work but as you stated, the links do not break. Thanks you two!

When you have to change something about an horizontal alignment, do you just draw in whatever new line work you want, and just complex redefine it with the same profile name to keep the links?

RE: Editing Profile After "Profile Complex by Elements" has been used

caddcop — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:35:03 GMT

There are less issues with dropping and re-complexing profiles than with alignments, as the profiles are always a child of their parent alignment.

For horizontal alignments, the complex redefine tool is the recommended tool as it will retain links to a corridor, should such a link exist. It is possible to easily change profiles used by corridors since it retains the parent alignment.

RE: Editing Profile After "Profile Complex by Elements" has been used

Jan Blaasse — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:55:42 GMT

Chris,

In my experience the best way to edit a profile is to drop it into individual elements, edit what you need to do and re-complex the profile.
There is a chance one or more parts of the design are affected by changing the profile, but that is usually easy to fix.

Jan