Geopak PowerCivil Roadway Tool

Again, I'm fairly new to the Powercivil world but have been using Microstation for 7 years and used Civil3D sparingly prior to returning the Bentley products. We're running a test roadway tool exercise to determine how to design a single road "corridor" and have PC grade the existing site. We've built the tin, created the chain, cut the profile, edited the design profile using vertical design tools but I can't seem to apply the roadway configuration to the base surface in order to modify the grading. Has anyone else come across this seemingly rudimentary lack of results? Matt PowerCivil 08.11.07.614
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  • Hi Matt,

    The "Roadway" tools within Site Modeler basically pulls together all of the fundamental design tools within the application and applies those tools specifically to the design of multiple connected urban (subdivisional type) roadways.

    The purpose is to provide a mechanism to design these roads as quickly as possible and use the relationships between them to automatically design the intersections.

    But.. as Nico has mentioned, these are advanced tools that really do require some understanding of the fundamental tools and an amount of configuration to successfully implement them.

    As you are new to the software and, at this time, are working your way through your first roadway, I'd suggest you take a look at the Composite Section tool first and gain an understanding of how the SEC files (Composite Section configuration files) are created and function before moving on to the Roadway network tools. The Roadway tools require that you already have a SEC file to apply to the proposed roadways... so the effort is not wasted.

    There was once a PowerCivil tutorial CD that provided training materials and sample configuration files for the PowerCivil product.

    Maybe your account manager can locate one of these tutorial CDs to help get you going.

    HTHs

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