I'm using Power Geopak V8i SS10. Very new user.
I created the incoming road and the intersection using breaklines. The issue I am running into is that the road coming into the approach has a 6" pavement depth and the intersection has 10" I wanted to model this correctly so I have 2 different terrain models for the 2 separate pavement depths. When I created the first one (incoming road) I just drew in a horizontal geometry line where the pavement depth changes and added that line and the edge of pavement as the boundary and then the centerline geometry as breaklines.
The problem is, when I do it on the intersection portion, I add the edge of pavement as boundary and then add centerline. It triangulates the entire centerline, not just the portion that is in the intersection. So it triangulates all the way back into the incoming road. Is there a way to clip these portions out? I am not sure if this is the best practice but it's what I have right now and need to get it pretty close.
Thanks for the help!
I don't think the problem shown in the pictures is necessarily related to your intersection modeling approach.
The triangulation in the picture is likely due to the boundary in that quadrant being either ignored or non-existent. I would investigate that issue after I'm satisfied with the model inside the intersection.
I have yet to model an intersection with the OpenRoads tools so I'll let some who are more experienced with that aspect of your modeling to others more experienced (such as MaryB and Mark Shamoun). With any model, though, I focus on the top surface before I spend too much effort on the subsurface layers.
Is this done by using the "apply external clipping" prompt when applying a surface template? I can't seem to get this to work.
Hi Kevin,
You can apply as many surface templates as you like to the same terrain. You can even create a boundary and apply the surface template to a section of the one terrain.
Regards,
Mark
OpenRoads Designer 2022 R3 (10.12) | Microstation 2023 | ProjectWise CE 3.4
I think having a centerline for the roadway and for the intersection, separately, is the way to go. I'm not sure what happens when you try to have one feature as part of two different terrains, but I suspect it isn't good.
MaryB
Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918Power InRoads 08.11.09.918OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2
I am adding that centerline to both the roadway and intersection separately. Which terrain should be active? I guess I'm not sure, I think my existing ground survey is the active terrain. Neither terrain should be targeting each other.
It's likely I could have made an unintentional rule with Civil Accudraw.
I did get it to work using your 0.0 offset idea of my centerline and basically just made two centerlines, one for the road and one for the intersection. Probably not the best way to do it but it seems to have worked.