Create Alternate Surface - InRoads v08.09.03.06

Re: Create Alternate Surface - InRoads v08.09.03.06

jluko — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:19:01 GMT

Thanks Chris and Thomas,

I checked my TC's and found the problems. I never realized that even though the components look fine the TC's need to line up as well like in V8.5.

Lesson Learned!

Joe

Re: Create Alternate Surface - InRoads v08.09.03.06

Chris Dry — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:15:05 GMT

Joe,

You'll have to post your project data to debug. There are a number of causes.

Do you have a lot of different templates? Do you have multiple end conditions? Do you have some display rules turning components on and off? Are you "tweening" cross sections that weren't created in the Designer?

These will all potentially cause inconsistencies with alt. surfaces. I've found that alt. surfaces work well with a consistent template, but if you have varying conditions with features that are not uniformly connected through the entire limits, than it becomes difficult.

For example, I have a display rule that turns on a granular component for certain conditions, which creates a bunch of isolated sections of the alt. surface that triangulates down the whole corridor. The triangles then must be cleaned up after.

Chris

Re: Create Alternate Surface - InRoads v08.09.03.06

jluko — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:03:05 GMT

Thomas,

There is possibilty of the feature names may not be the same. There is about 10 different templates being used. I will verify and let you know.

Thanks,

Joe

Re: Create Alternate Surface - InRoads v08.09.03.06

Thomas Taylor [Bentley Civil] — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:44:13 GMT

Joe,

Have you displayed the features for the subgrade surface? Could there be a surface feature discrepancy where the feature is included in one template and not in another. This is common when points are introduced between cut and fill slope solutions.

If you need me to debug this issue, send me a note and the data.

HTH

Thomas