JonathanEngr Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 Hi, all. I am working on a road design, and my alignment, profile and design profile are all working without a hitch. Same for the corridor... it's all nice, clean and makes perfect sense when you look at the surrounding land. However, when I create a corridor surface the contours shoot well outside of the corridor and make absolutely no sense. I could always explode everything and trim the lines, but that's not going to help me in my next phase of the drawing where I'll depend on a combined surface. Any ideas why my contours are going haywire?? BTW--using Windows 7 64-bit and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 Quote
Organic Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 Could it be battering/daylighting that is having issues? A picture of a problem or uploading the file here would help. Quote
JonathanEngr Posted May 12, 2014 Author Posted May 12, 2014 (edited) I tried uploading the ACAD file in zip format several times and received an error every time (file size is 8 MB.. couldn't see anything about a size limit). Anyway, attached is a screenshot. As for the issue, I'm by no means a pro at AutoCAD, but if there was an issue with the automatic grading/daylighting, would the corridor boundary not be messed up, as well? After all, the corridor basically is the grading limits, correct? Just a guess there. I remade the alignment, profile and corridor, then created a corridor surface from the "new" design. Same thing happened again. Any suggestions would be appreciated! EDIT: I just uploaded the zip file to "Box". The link is below: https://app.box.com/s/ak1bf42q0g65zuwkhsz4 Edited May 12, 2014 by JonathanEngr Quote
JonathanEngr Posted May 12, 2014 Author Posted May 12, 2014 (edited) Got it!!! I went into the Corridor properties via Prospector, and went to the "Boundaries" tab. I then right-clicked on the corridor and used "Corridor extents as outer boundary". I hit "Apply", but it didn't fix it until I then hit "OK". Once that was done it was perfect!! Edited May 12, 2014 by JonathanEngr Quote
BIGAL Posted May 13, 2014 Posted May 13, 2014 If you had turned on the display triangles as a style you would have the real long ones going around the bend anywhere there is a triangle you will get a contour. Very simple visual check. Have a look at this post its a on /off styles via toolbar icons. http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?49417-Changing-CIV3d-contours-simply&highlight=contours Quote
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