Comments on: Cracking the Vault: Paving Design http://www.civil3d.com/2006/10/vault-paving-design/ Home of Raider Consulting Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:27:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kevin Currey http://www.civil3d.com/2006/10/vault-paving-design/comment-page-1/#comment-522 Kevin Currey Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:47:14 +0000 http://www.civil3d.com/index.php/2006/10/vault-paving-design/#comment-522 This is making me feel pretty good about myself. It’s basically the same workflow that I have come to after refining it over several projects. I started out thinking that I definitely needed a separate drawing for each corridor, and maybe a separate drawing for each alignment & profile (otherwise I’d spend more time recovering files than working on my design). That took way too much work just to keep the drawings straight, and matching up intersections was a nightmare. Then I moved to placing all of my alignments in one drawing, and all of my corridors in one drawing. That was better, but it still was too much work to update a corridor after modifying a profile. So now all alignments, profiles, and corridors are in one drawing. Composite corridor surface is “dref’d” out for grading & utilities. And with SP2, stability has not been an issue. Thanks James for taking the time to share this with the masses. <em>JW: Make sure you get your hands on SP3 as soon as it's available. The speed improvements in DREFs and Corridors alone will blow you away. It's a must have for real work!</em> This is making me feel pretty good about myself. It’s basically the same workflow that I have come to after refining it over several projects. I started out thinking that I definitely needed a separate drawing for each corridor, and maybe a separate drawing for each alignment & profile (otherwise I’d spend more time recovering files than working on my design). That took way too much work just to keep the drawings straight, and matching up intersections was a nightmare. Then I moved to placing all of my alignments in one drawing, and all of my corridors in one drawing. That was better, but it still was too much work to update a corridor after modifying a profile. So now all alignments, profiles, and corridors are in one drawing. Composite corridor surface is “dref’d” out for grading & utilities. And with SP2, stability has not been an issue.

Thanks James for taking the time to share this with the masses.

JW: Make sure you get your hands on SP3 as soon as it’s available. The speed improvements in DREFs and Corridors alone will blow you away. It’s a must have for real work!

]]> By: Dana Breig Probert, EIT http://www.civil3d.com/2006/10/vault-paving-design/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Dana Breig Probert, EIT Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:39:23 +0000 http://www.civil3d.com/index.php/2006/10/vault-paving-design/#comment-520 There are a lot of X's in Texas There are a lot of X’s in Texas

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