Folks, I am in need of a template expert to assist me.
I am working on the end condition and subgrade components of my template, trying to eliminate the need for end condition exceptions and hand editing of the subgrade in the cross sections.
Problem #1:
Problem #2:
I have been spinning my wheels on this all day and starting to think maybe I have overcomplicated it or maybe what I am trying to do is not possible. I prefer to use a single template for the project, as end conditions are not uniform throughout.
If anyone has any insight I would be indebted and if anyone could fit in some time, I would love to hop on a Teams meeting to explain further. I have also attached the template below.
TIA for any help!
test library.itl
This is what I have done but I think I am having issues with priority. Only the end condition that is priority 1 will display.
Matt,
I believe you can accomplish what you're trying to do with the EC's by using End Condition Exception Overrides (Just like you mentioned in the last paragraph above). The trick is to not have all of the EC's in the base template when you run it in the corridor (i.e.- remove the "extra EC's"). Maybe just have the one EC that you want to solve the majority of the corridor in your base template, then add in the ECE Overrides from xx+xx to yy+yy for the alternate EC solutions and so on. You may also want to add in End Condition Exception Transitions to fine tune your model before and after the change in End Conditions.Now regarding the second problem with your base materials, I'm not sure this EC Exception will help you with that problem as the EC solution is the last thing to process at any given station, and it sounds like your base material configurations are dependent upon the locations of your End Conditions.Sorry I don't have the full solution but maybe this gets you going in the right direction, or over one of the hurdles.
The template I made uses several end conditions, and each end condition uses priority 1. This works because each end conditions has it's own independent point of origin.
The image shows the control points that govern the display rules at the bottom, and the separate end conditions above the road surface.(In the corridor they move to the same level using another parametric constraint, but are placed at different levels for easy editing.)
Answer Verified By: Matt Murphy
Thanks for the response Joe but I would like to avoid EC overrides. From my understanding, they are time consuming and cause inconsistencies because they are not replicable.
Thanks Jan!
It does seem my issue was that all 3 end conditions shared the same point of origin. I fixed that and the parametric constraint display trigger is now working properly. Problem #1 solved!