Exercise 2: Viewing and Correcting Alignment Design Criteria

Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Exercise 3: Working with Design Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Exercise 4: Modifying a Design Criteria File . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Tutorial: Applying Superelevation to an Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Exercise 1: Calculating Superelevation for an Alignment . . . . . 262
Exercise 2: Calculating Superelevation for an Individual
Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Exercise 3: Creating a Superelevation View . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Exercise 4: Adding and Modifying Superelevation Stations . . . . 269
Exercise 5: Editing Superelevation Parameters Graphically . . . . 272

Chapter 9 Profiles Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Tutorial: Designing Simple Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Tutorial: Using Surface Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Exercise 1: Creating and Displaying Surface Profiles with
Offsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Exercise 2: Changing the Profile Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Exercise 3: Reviewing Surface Profile Characteristics . . . . . . . 285
Tutorial: Using Layout Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Exercise 1: Creating a Layout Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Exercise 2: Editing a Layout Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Exercise 3: Copying a Profile and Offsetting it Vertically . . . . . 294
Tutorial: Designing a Profile that Refers to Local Standards . . . . . . 297
Exercise 1: Specifying Profile Design Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Exercise 2: Drawing a Profile that Refers to Design Criteria . . . . 299
Exercise 3: Viewing and Correcting Profile Design Criteria
Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Tutorial: Displaying and Modifying Profile Views . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Exercise 1: Editing the Profile View Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Exercise 2: Adding Hatch Patterns Between Profiles . . . . . . . 310
Exercise 3: Projecting Objects onto a Profile View . . . . . . . . 314
Exercise 4: Splitting a Profile View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Exercise 5: Creating Multiple Profile Views . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Exercise 6: Creating Stacked Profile Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Tutorial: Working with Data Bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Exercise 1: Adding Data Bands to a Profile View . . . . . . . . . 331
Exercise 2: Moving Labels in a Data Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Exercise 3: Modifying a Data Band Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

Chapter 10 Parcels Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Tutorial: Creating Parcels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Exercise 1: Creating Parcels from AutoCAD Objects . . . . . . . 341
Exercise 2: Subdividing a Parcel with a Free-Form Segment . . . . 345
Exercise 3: Subdividing a Parcel with a Slide Line . . . . . . . . . 348

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 Exercise 4: Subdividing a Parcel with a Swing Line . . . . . . . . 355
Exercise 5: Working with Alignments and Parcels . . . . . . . . 359
Tutorial: Editing Parcel Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Exercise 1: Sliding a Parcel Lot Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Exercise 2: Swinging One End of a Parcel Lot Line . . . . . . . . 368
Exercise 3: Editing Parcel Lot Line Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Tutorial: Displaying and Analyzing Parcels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
Exercise 1: Changing Parcel Style Display Order . . . . . . . . . 382
Exercise 2: Exporting Parcel Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

Chapter 11 Grading Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Tutorial: Setting up Grading Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Exercise 1: Reviewing Grading Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Exercise 2: Creating Grading Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
Exercise 3: Creating Grading Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Tutorial: Creating Gradings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Exercise 1: Creating Feature Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Exercise 2: Assigning Feature Line Elevations . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Exercise 3: Creating a Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Tutorial: Editing Gradings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Exercise 1: Editing the Grading Elevation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Exercise 2: Balancing Cut and Fill Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Exercise 3: Editing the Grading Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
Tutorial: Grading from a Complex Building Footprint . . . . . . . . . 404
Exercise 1: Simplifying a Building Footprint . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Exercise 2: Grading from a Building Footprint to a Surface . . . . 408
Exercise 3: Filling Holes in a Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Tutorial: Using Feature Lines to Modify a Grading . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Exercise 1: Smoothing Feature Line Arcs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Exercise 2: Adjusting Grading Triangulation with a Feature
Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Exercise 3: Working with Crossing Feature Lines . . . . . . . . . 415

Chapter 12 Corridor Assembly Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Tutorial: Working with Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Exercise 1: Creating an Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Exercise 2: Modifying the Subassembly Name Template . . . . . 427
Exercise 3: Managing Assemblies and Subassemblies . . . . . . . 430
Tutorial: Creating an Assembly with Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Exercise 1: Examining the Existing Corridor in Section . . . . . . 433
Exercise 2: Adding Conditional Subassemblies to a Corridor
Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Exercise 3: Adjusting Conditional Subassembly Properties . . . . 443
Exercise 4: Rebuilding the Corridor and Examining the
Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

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 Tutorial: Saving and Sharing Corridor Assemblies . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Exercise 1: Saving Assemblies to a Tool Palette . . . . . . . . . . 449
Exercise 2: Copying Assemblies to a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . 451
Exercise 3: Publishing a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Exercise 4: Installing a Tool Catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Exercise 5: Moving Assemblies from a Tool Catalog to a Tool
Palette or Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455

Chapter 13 Corridors Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Tutorial: Creating a Basic Corridor Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Tutorial: Creating a Corridor with a Transition Lane . . . . . . . . . . 463
Exercise 1: Creating an Assembly with a Transition Lane . . . . . 464
Exercise 2: Creating a Corridor with a Transition Lane . . . . . . 467
Tutorial: Creating a Divided Highway Corridor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Exercise 1: Creating a Divided Highway Assembly . . . . . . . . 472
Exercise 2: Creating a Divided Highway Corridor . . . . . . . . . 476
Tutorial: Viewing and Editing Corridor Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Exercise 1: Viewing Corridor Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
Exercise 2: Editing Corridor Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Tutorial: Viewing and Rendering a Corridor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Exercise 1: Creating Corridor Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Exercise 2: Creating Corridor Surface Boundaries . . . . . . . . . 486
Exercise 3: Visualizing a Corridor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Chapter 14 Intersection and Roundabout Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Tutorial: Creating Intersections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Exercise 1: Creating a Peer Road Intersection . . . . . . . . . . . 496
Exercise 2: Creating a Primary Road Intersection with Turn
Lanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Exercise 3: Creating an Intersection with Existing
Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Tutorial: Editing Intersections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Exercise 1: Editing the Horizontal Geometry of an
Intersection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
Exercise 2: Editing the Vertical Geometry of an
Intersection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Exercise 3: Creating and Editing a Corridor in the Intersection
Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533
Tutorial: Working with Roundabouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Exercise 1: Creating a Roundabout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538
Exercise 2: Adding an Approach Road to a Roundabout . . . . . 546
Exercise 3: Adding a Turn Slip Lane to a Roundabout . . . . . . 550
Exercise 4: Editing Roundabout Components . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Exercise 5: Working with Roundabout Design Standards and
Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560

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