After watching the PowerCivil tutorial ( http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Community/eSeminars/Civil/PowerCivil+for+North+America.htm) I can create a pad. When adding a grading area around the pad, as shown in the tutorial, by using the "edit/new element" command with "slope/offset from element" and "entire element" I get resulting jagged contours (see attached).
Any ideas on where I might be going wrong?
Hi,
difficult to tell what the problem is from the attached images. Only thing that comes immediately to mind is what DTM feature type did you assign to the elements. For safetys sake, set them both to "breakline" (if you havent already)
If this isnt the issue, please enable the triangles and repost and image with the triangles displayed.
Thanks,
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
In theory, both elements should be included in the same surface.
If they are, then the side slopes are applied to the outside of the surface to tie down/up to the Model.
If this is the case, that both elements are in the same surface, then you should not see the result you have displayed.
Both elements, pad and grading area perimiter, were created in Microstation at elevation 0. The inner square was selected as a building pad (level, draped to maximum elevation). The outer was selected and referenced to the pad with a -2% slope.
However, if I start by creating a pad by selecting the outer square then create the inner using the edit/create element and reference the outer square with slope/offset it works.
Same procedure just reversed order of creation.
Keeps timing out - I'll create a smaller file and post
Thanks