What if you have a dxf or paper drawing for road channel lines and crown lines, and you have a proposed surface level drawing for tarmac, and the spot levels are all random places, not opposite each other, no crown levels etc and zero indication of chainages. Best software for this issue and best way to go around it?
In that case I'm not sure why you are trying to create an alignment. But you could still create an alignme of the tarmac. Perhaps your aim is to show the profile of the tarmac. In that case, you could still use Civil 3D software. What yiu would do is draw alignment on all 4 sides of the tarmac including the center I.e. As many as you would need to clearly show yiu the profile. With these (many) profiles, you can then go ahead to generate Longitudinal profiles or cross Sectional Profiles of your tarmac. I know you said there are no chainages indicated and the spot heights are random, those factors do not matter. Just go ahead and create alignments anywhere you think will best portray the site as many as you need.
Yes there is no setting out coordinates for the kerb line, it's just a kerb layout drawing with spot levels, for a new bell mouth access off a roundabout into a industrial estate truck turning, truck bay area
I have exploded the cad file not all entities can be copied, managed to drag the lines into a new DXF and the kerb lines are in the data collector, but the lines are not live.. I want segments of the arcs etc with live heights so I can stake the arcs and straights like you can with a DTM surface type of thing, the straights are no issue as I can do that in the handheld
Ok. So since you have Spotheights on your file. You can create a surface for the whole area. Then with the surface, you can be able to extract the heights of the curb lines at any point you want to.
Very nice thank you
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What if you have a dxf or paper drawing for road channel lines and crown lines, and you have a proposed surface level drawing for tarmac, and the spot levels are all random places, not opposite each other, no crown levels etc and zero indication of chainages. Best software for this issue and best way to go around it?
In that case I'm not sure why you are trying to create an alignment. But you could still create an alignme of the tarmac. Perhaps your aim is to show the profile of the tarmac. In that case, you could still use Civil 3D software.
What yiu would do is draw alignment on all 4 sides of the tarmac including the center I.e. As many as you would need to clearly show yiu the profile. With these (many) profiles, you can then go ahead to generate Longitudinal profiles or cross Sectional Profiles of your tarmac.
I know you said there are no chainages indicated and the spot heights are random, those factors do not matter. Just go ahead and create alignments anywhere you think will best portray the site as many as you need.
Yes there is no setting out coordinates for the kerb line, it's just a kerb layout drawing with spot levels, for a new bell mouth access off a roundabout into a industrial estate truck turning, truck bay area
I have exploded the cad file not all entities can be copied, managed to drag the lines into a new DXF and the kerb lines are in the data collector, but the lines are not live.. I want segments of the arcs etc with live heights so I can stake the arcs and straights like you can with a DTM surface type of thing, the straights are no issue as I can do that in the handheld
Ok. So since you have Spotheights on your file. You can create a surface for the whole area. Then with the surface, you can be able to extract the heights of the curb lines at any point you want to.
The surface dtm would cut out before back of kerb pins unless i made the surface perimeter 125 to 150mm wider all round
Please your videos is too fast,which makes following difficult
Thank you for the feedback. Kindly use the "playback speed" option on TH-cam to slow it down to your preferred speed.