I've looked all over the place and CANNOT find a tutorial that creates civil cells! Everyone already assumes you have them. Where did they get their civil cells!?! Did they magically appear!
Oh, and there isn't any documentation in the help files!!! Seriously?!? How the Frac are you supposed to figure this stuff out! All the bentley trainings online (and the conference workshops for that matter) assume you want to use the basic T intersection one, not create your own!!!!!!!!
Sorry for all the exclamation points.
Ok, so i'll try to make one myself. I went through and made a dummy T intersection and then tried to use the Create Civil Cell button. It has me select the alignments as required references, then any optional references and then accept! Why cant I select the corridors I just created?!?
Someone suggested that I need to create this in it's own model. Ok, I create a new file and copy in the corridors I just created. NOPE! you cant copy civil elements. Ok, lets copy the DGN and delete everything else out of the file. That's great but I cant access that civil cell because it doesnt show up in the selection dialog box!!!
So I tried loading up the file in the Project explorer and going to Civil Models, into the file, then finding civil cells and right clicking and there's an option to place civil cell. NOPE! crashes every time. I'm starting to understand why there is no training on how to actually create a civil cell.
Ok, i'll try creating an even more basic Civil Cell in the same file in a new model. NOPE! I cant reference the civil cell from the other model!!!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
Dave
Hi Dave, Civil Cells can be tricky, but they can also be very powerful. I used the following videos as a guide when I first started to learn how to create civil cells. Be sure to start with the first video, as they build on each other.
communities.bentley.com/.../7064.aspx
The site below is a good resource for working with Open Roads Technology
www.youtube.com/.../mbuilds
The link below gives step by step how to create a basic T
www.youtube.com/watch
HTH
Michael Barkasi
Application Engineer
Reality Modeling
Answer Verified By: Jacquelyn Pettus
Thanks to all for the links. I'll look through them and let you know how it goes.
(I'm sorry for yelling :)
-Dave
Ok, went through most of those trainings but they dont tell you how to get the corridors attached to the civil cell. I was able to figure out the vertical and horizontal alignment parts on my own so I already knew that. The examples are using linear templates. How are those different from corridors? Are they different?
Corridors can be attached in place of linear templates. There are limitations when attaching corridors to civil cells and there are advantages.
some limitations include... you cannot use multiple drops, key stations, superelevation, target aliasing, and clipping. Nor can a corridor be edited in any way before grouping a cell (this included linear templates). all these functions can be performed after a cell is placed however.
So the advantage is a cell can be placed that includes the corridor, and on placement it can be modified using any method typical to corridors
to answer your last question on how they are different, linear templates are corridors that have limited controls as opposed to a standard corridor