Corridor cut and fill slope

[Ricken]

I´m trying to learn this program and have been going through some basic tutorials.

 

But when I´ve created a corridor and then opens it in object viewer, the slopes are just lines. The program doesn´t cut slopes or fill them where necessary.

Why is that?

All I´m getting are lines showing where it should be fill or cut.

 

I´m including an image so that you might see what I mean.

 

[Ricken]

I guess if I could create a boundary around the corridor, I could use that on the surface to "cut" a hole in it.

[Ricken]

I´ve got a boundary through properties, I have tried to add every boundary possible to see if one of them would fix it for me. But no.

[Ricken]

Ok, I´ve bben watching some tutorials and so forth on youtube, and it seems like this may be the way it´s supposed to be.

But, I need to be able to use something like "grading volume tools" on the corridor.

 

How?

[Ricken]

I found som great tutorials about it, that I can´t link to,.vvv civil3d. com/ errata/

 

 

But still, if someone has got any pointers, let me hear them.

[lpseifert]

Have you made a surface from your corridor?

[Ricken]

Have you made a surface from your corridor?

Yepp, I made 2 surfaces yesterday from it, as told by the tutorial, one "roadway top" and one "roadway bottom(datum)".

 

I managed to get the tables up yesterday with volumes in it, but I don´t think the wolumes were correect so I´m still working on it. Right now I´m thinking of how to create sample lines at basicly every station along the corridor to make sure the volumes are calculated throughout the entire length of it.

[Ricken]

Is there any way to put the corridor, or its slopes in the "grading group" so that I can use the Grading volume tools?

 

I´m just spitballing here.

[sinc]

As far as I know, there is no way to use anything like the Grading Tools on a Corridor.

 

I presume you are trying to balance quantities? If so, you might check into the Mass Haul functionality.

[Ricken]

As far as I know, there is no way to use anything like the Grading Tools on a Corridor.

 

I presume you are trying to balance quantities? If so, you might check into the Mass Haul functionality.

Thanks, will look into that.

[Ricken]

Ok, I may be on to something (again), when I try to compute materials, it looks like I need a layer from the corridor that I can add to the Terass. otherwise all calculations equals 0.

 

 

I have created layers from the corridor, but I might have done them in a wrong way, cause they won´t appear in this box.

 

I created the layers through corridor properties, is there a better way?

[JerryG]

Ricken - to create a grading object from your corridor

go to the Home menu - "Feature Line" - Create feature line from corridor.

Then pick the edge of the corridor that you want to grade from.

For computing materials I dont think your on the right track.

I would go back through the tutorial again.

I dont thing the layer but rather the material itself is what your looking for.

So say you insert a subassembly with Top course and Base course.

You want to specify Base course for your computation.

Hope that makes some sense.

[JerryG]

I´m trying to learn this program and have been going through some basic tutorials.

 

But when I´ve created a corridor and then opens it in object viewer, the slopes are just lines. The program doesn´t cut slopes or fill them where necessary.

Why is that?

All I´m getting are lines showing where it should be fill or cut.

 

 

 

You have to create a new surface then paste your two surfaces into that surface. Once youve done that turn your other two surfaces off.

You will then have one surface showing your existing grade and new

design merged together with cut and fill.

[Ricken]

I got it to work, one time.

Then I tryied to do it again and havent done it yet.

 

I used an assembly with a multiple of layers, After creating the profile I opened the profile view properties and hatch options.

I can now chose the profile line that I have created in the profile view.

 

So then I have an upper and a lower limit for fill and cut.

 

But then, I can´t seem to replicate the procedure.

 

When I press compute materials, I can´t chose any datum surfaces besides existing ground.

 

Thats where i stand now. don not know if it´s the right way, but I got a result out of it before, need to do it again before I can look criticly at it.

 

Thanks for all the input people.