Curb and Gutter Section corner...

Yep, it is very important to use complex elements (or linestrings) instead of individual lines in situations like this to avoid what you see here.

But what if one of the corners is to be against a retaining wall and another is just curb and gutter? (IE two diffrent sections)

How would I go about doing that with only one complex element?

Thanks for reply.

Hi,

There are a couple of things you can do to get the curbs to miter when the sections are applied to seperate elements. One is to apply the section to both elements at the same time. Another is to move the end of one of the elements away from the other and then snap it back. A third is to use the Site Elements Trim to Intersect tool in the Modify Elements tool bar. The Trim to Intersect tool will create the miter even if the elements are already snapped together such as you have in your screen capture.

Please see this screen recording:

http://screencast.com/t/OTVlMWNjM2Y

mbart,

One of the deficiencies of Site has been the inability to apply different sections to a single element as you descibe. Up until the SS1 release, one of the workarounds was to break the element and apply the different section to each. This of course becomes a problem if the elements need to be moved since they would have to both be adjusted to maintain their alignment with each other.

With the new Civil Geometry tools we can now get around part of this problem. What you can now do is create a complex element with Civil Geometry and then break it at the point where you want the section to change. You then apply the desired sections to each element. Since the elements were created with Civil Geometry they will maintain their geometric relationship to each other when the base geometry is edited.

Thanks that helps a ton.