Modeling Existing Utilities in InRoads XM

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.

 

  • 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...


    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996