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.
Keeps timing out - I'll create a smaller file and post
Thanks
Michael Gilham: IIf you can post the DGN and GSF, I would be happy to debug this for you.
IIf you can post the DGN and GSF, I would be happy to debug this for you.
Files Attached
as suggested earlier - the internal element is a "Boundary" DTM feature and the external element is a "breakline" DTM feature.
These need to be reversed and all will be fine.
Thanks, you are correct. I thought I was setting the inner up as a breakline but I found the Change Attributes command and sure enough the pad was a boundary.
Now my question for my next question: Are pads set up automatically as a boundary element in the wizard or can I change it to a breakline during creation? Seems that the option would be in the "Surface Type" setting but I can't find it.