Civil 3D Tip: Shade Corridor Materials in Plan View Creating shaded materials within a Civil 3D corridor allows you to visualize the model in plan view. Colors, hatches, and shading can represent materials like…
OpenRoads Tip: Create Geometry by Template Have you ever done a schematic layout of your design and needed a bunch of offset alignments from your center-line to represent lanes, curb, sidewalk etc.? The…
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 Tip: Is My Alignment Cursed? Please Help! I had a client come to me and exclaim his alignment was cursed and not behaving like he expected. He set alignment masking, but the masking was not working…
OpenRoads Tip: Clip a Corridor or End a Corridor at a Skew When working with corridors in plans production it is sometimes necessary to clip a corridor area out for a new structure or maybe end a corridor at a skew. …
OpenRoads Tip: Reverse the Direction of Alignment This one is better described as a trick, rather than a tip. Caution: the following should be used with care and check all data after completion. It is always…
OpenRoads Tip: Corridor Modeling Manipulators There are two lines generated during modeling in OpenRoads. Dependent on which one you select, different context mini tool bars are presented. Corridor …
OpenRoads Tip: Point Controls Targeting MicroStation Graphics in Corridors Written by: Bob Mecham Point Controls can be used to override the template in areas where lanes are widening or working with ditches. By using point controls…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Civil 3D 2017 Introduces the Ability to Create Data Shortcuts for Corridors Written by Ben Johnson Creating data shortcuts for sharing data in the form of Civil 3D objects is nothing new. However, until now this functionality did not…
OpenRoads Tip – Create Terrain Element from Corridor and Add Exterior Boundary Written by: Bob Mecham In this tip we will show you how to create a terrain element from your corridor. Then we will show you how to constrain the…
OpenRoads Tip: 5 Things to Know When Working with Superelevations Written by: Bob Mecham Working with superelevations in the OpenRoads SS4 release is much different from previous versions of InRoads or GEOPAK. Here are 5…
AutoCAD Civil 3D Tip: Adding Sample Lines in the Middle of the Existing Sample Line Group Written by Ben Johnson Have you ever created a group of corridor section views, done a bunch of labeling edits to your automated code set labels; and then…
InRoads Tip: Display References in Roadway Designer Written by: Bob Mecham As part of the InRoads design process it can be useful to display all the necessary design features in Roadway Designer instead of…
InRoads Tip: GEOPAK Corridor Modeling – Cross Section Annotation Written by Ronald Brys. Overview on how to annotate cross sections generated using Corridor Modeler in GEOPAK SELECTseries 2. See all of our InRoads tips on…
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 New Feature: Extract Corridor Solid Written by Bryan Sullivan. The Extract Corridor Solids command (aeccEXPORTCORRIDORTOSOLIDS) provides functionality that allows you to extract AutoCAD solids…
Managing the Graphic Display of Features Features are not part of a graphic group when displayed so it is not as easy as deleting triangles and contours. In this tutorial we will demonstrate an easy…
Edit Corridor Section Dialog – Select a Station Incorrect Have you ever tried editing a corridor section of a corridor with multiple baselines and the Select a Baseline and Select a Station drop-down list values in…
