Profiling Utilities and Crossings

More and more, our clients are asking that we profile all utilities (outside of facilities - Civil side) including water, sewer, storm, electrical ductbank, comm, etc... This includes annotating sizes, inverts, stationing, slopes, and identifying crossings with other utilities. The way we are going about it is extremely labor intensive. We have a large project coming up in a few months that will require the same work and I am looking for better ways to go about achieving this. Please let me know of products or methods that you have used or recommend. We are currently using InRoads: importing the different utilities as features, creating horizontal alignments for the utilities, creating profiles, then creating vertical alignments for the different utilities. Any help the forum can give me would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

jhussus

  • HI Jhussus,

    What is the data source of the utilities? I think you're on a good way with Inroads! We'er doing it the same way,

    For survied utilities we're using InRoads Survey, import the survey data and write it to a surface, display and anontate the featuers  in profiles and cross sections, just as you worte (exp. we're using surface features, only).

    Sure some profiles functions good be more comfortable (Like "annotate profile" and "annotate features in profiles" for more then one surface in one single step).

    Regards

    Frank

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