Hello Team,
Currently in our project, we are going through our templates adding "Vertical Point Controls" due some special ditch elevations. Our template (shown below) consists of a 6:1 after the turf, a 4:1 then our ditch. At some points in our project, the 4:1 that follows the 6:1 is small enough that we have decided to just get rid of it (Mechanically, is not convenient for the contractor to make that 4:1 slope). As you can see, Point 4 and Point 6 have only one constraint which is Slope. I want those lines to keep the same slope when reaching the Vertical Point Control, when I add a Horizontal Constraint as the Second Constraint, the point freaks out and connects to the point control in very odd ways. Without messing the slope of the rest of the XS's by adding a horizontal constraint, how can I indicate the template to make the 4:1 to zero? (6:1 then the ditch).
Any help or references I can look at are highly appreciated.
Thank you,
-Enrique Salas
Enrique,
This looks to me as something you need to resolve using two separate solutions where one of the partial templates has both the 6:1 and 4:1 slopes, and another partial template only has the 6:1 slope.Using display rules you can let the template determine when to show the combined 6:1 and 4:1, and when to show only the 6:1.
Jan
Jan,
I got busy working on the field and I wanted some more insight on the approach to this problem. Should I just add the Ditch and Backslope starting at Point #2? What Display Rules would you use? Parametric Restraints or something more simple?
If you want to use two separate slope designs, the point to start is point 3. That is the only way to make sure you can apply the 6:1 slope in combination with the ditch. If you start at point 2, you could run into problems when the 6:1 slope needs to interact directly with the ditch.
The display rule could be something like when total width for 4:1 and 6:1 slope is less than X, display only slope 6:1.X is the distance where you want to switch between the combined slopes or just the 6:1 slope.