Dynamic Cross Sections - Advancing through Stations Quicker?

RE: Dynamic Cross Sections - Advancing through Stations Quicker?

Jack Scudder — Mon, 08 May 2023 00:20:28 GMT

Thanks Mark for the reply and link to the ideas portal, I will check it out and put this out there. What I’ll call “rapid station advancement” was crucial for some of our lengthy corridor rehabilitation projects to verify proposed grade, superelevation, and fill slope decisions before locking down the design. As a new ORD user, it’s nice to see the plan, cross section and 3D simultaneously but in some aspects like this it is more difficult to evaluate the design in a simplistic way (that doesn’t over-tax our PC’s to the point of tapping out!)

RE: Dynamic Cross Sections - Advancing through Stations Quicker?

Mark Plum — Sat, 06 May 2023 05:05:43 GMT

Mark, on a related note, we use dynamic cross sections and their associated crossing objects (cel flags, crossing existing and proposed utilities, etc.) all the the time. It is only when these sections look impeccable that we even attempt to cut cross section drawings for production. The authors post is of imminent importance to us.

Mark

RE: Dynamic Cross Sections - Advancing through Stations Quicker?

Mark Plum — Sat, 06 May 2023 05:01:42 GMT

Mark

Yeah, exactly as I has assumed. Another missed cross-view tool and missed opportunity by Bentley. What a dang shame

Mark

RE: Dynamic Cross Sections - Advancing through Stations Quicker?

Mark Shamoun — Sat, 06 May 2023 03:19:56 GMT

Hi Mark,

The issue is that the XS Navigator is for Cross Section Drawings and not linked to the Dynamic XS Views that we use quite a bit while developing and checking the design before we get to drawing production.

RE: Dynamic Cross Sections - Advancing through Stations Quicker?

Mark Plum — Sat, 06 May 2023 03:13:30 GMT

Mark:

One would have thought that Bentley would have tied this feature into the Cross Section Navigator tool. I just thought of this, and do not have access to OpenRoads Designer, but has anyone tried out this notion? I seriously doubt that this idea will work because of the difference in actionable sequences, but still...

Best Regards,

Mark

RE: Dynamic Cross Sections - Advancing through Stations Quicker?

Mark Shamoun — Sat, 06 May 2023 03:05:40 GMT

Hi Jack,

We have put an enhancement request for this as well. We could also do the same as what you could in Inroads in MX as well so the station-by-station advancement of ORD Dynamic Cross sections is a step backwards for us as well. You can put this in as an idea here: Bentley OpenCivil Ideas Portal (aha.io) and im sure many of us will vote for it.