Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
I am looking to model a set of existing utilities inside of Inroads XM, using the drainage utility command.
The Utility that I have currently modeled, as a trial run to figure out the best work flow, represents an existing
rectangular drainage culvert. The culvert was created successfully in the utilities tab and shows when viewing
drainage as solids. My issue now is I want to see the existing Utility show up in my Profile when i cut it along
my horizontal alignment. to this point i cant seem to get the crossing of this utility to show. Therefore my
question is....
How do you get Utilities to show as crossings when creating Profiles or Sections?
Does this information have to be brought into the DTM as a Feature for it to show?
Enough for now...
Thanks again for your insight and direction
Best Wishes,Kevin.
The display is based on the Style you used for the utility. The Style would need to have the Surface Feature Cross Section Display and Profile Display Crossing Points toggled on. The style has to be asociated with a Name Symbology that has a line display set for cross section and/or profile also (that is what would be used to display the shape).
Hey Art,
Thanks for your response....
It looks as thought my settings are correctly set in my Style Manager as well as the associated
symbology.
I am assuming by your reply, that i would not than, have to include the culvert information in the DTM as a feature,
to get this information to show up.
My question than would be. This information is represented as a utility in the
drainage database, how than does my profile know to include it in the profile i am generating. I do not see a
switch to select to include... it seams their would be a utilities box on the Network Tab of structures to view.
Thanks again,
Kevin.
You will need to toggle on Include Drainage Structures.
I would do it as an Update Profile or Cross Sections instade of directly from the Crate Profile or Create Cross Sectin command so I could be "picky" at what is being displayed out of the Drainage Database.
Just adding my $0.02.
I have used both DTM Features and Drainage Utilities and both can work. Each has its advantages and disadvantages too.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
Where do you toggle on include drainage structures?
On the Create Profile dialog under the Include tab lists:
Crossing Features
Projected Features,
Display Planimetrics
Show Data Outside Elevation
Display Manholes as Cones
No Drainage Structures. Is this were you are referring?
Also, on the Update Profile Dialog, it doesnt list anything for Drainage Either....just:
Surface
Offsets
Projected Features.
When i look at the crossing features, i see some random points but that is it...
I assume thats only because thats all that is in my DTM...
Kevin
how bout .02 cents more.... lol
Currently if got a culvert placed in as a utility using the drainage tools....
the problem is, it is not showing up when i cut the profile... im cutting the profile
based on the alignment not drainage network.... currently just wanting to model
the existing utilities that will be impacted...
any suggestions or thoughts?
If you view the utilities in 3D/Plan View, you can import them into a surface as DNC Features.
Then if the style is correctly setup, update the profile to display projected or crossing features. If in the update profile dialog box, the features are grayed out, their surface feature settings are not properly defined.
The ideal case is some small utility where a cell can display crossing points and a custom linestyle can display projected lines.
If the item has some depth, due to vertical exaggeration, a custom linestyle does not really work. So, it might be necessary to make two features - one a bottom invert and the other a top crown.
See, plus and minus...