Road editing

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• The available roads are listed in the Road Manager.

• To edit a road, from Road Manager tap on the road to edit.

• Select Modify from the context menu.

  

• This opens the road editing page.

Road information

• The Road page includes the main information regarding the road.

  

  • Name: the name of the road.

  • Start Station: the starting station of the road.

  • E, N: the coordinate of the starting station.

  • Point: select the starting point from CAD or from the list of available points.

  • Cross section width: defines the cross section width, used by the software to to draw cross sections along the horizontal axis.

• Press Tools and Play to open the Play cross sections page.

  

• The page shows the cross sections at the change of station.

  • Station: enter the starting station.

  • Interval: the station interval to show the different cross sections.

• Press Play to automatically show the cross sections at the change of station.

Horizontal alignment

• The page lists the horizontal alignment elements.

  

• Tap on an element to zoom in the preview panel.

• Press Modify from the context menu to edit the selected element.

  

• Press Add to add an horizontal alignment element, in case the road has to be designed in the field.

Vertical alignment

• The page lists the vertical alignment elements.

  

• Select an element to zoom in the preview panel.

• Press Modify to edit the selected element.

  

• Press Add to add a alignment element, in case the road has to be designed in the field.

• Press Tools and select Vertical element list to show the list of vertical alignment elements.

  

• Press Tools and select PVI list to show the list of PVI.

  

Cross sections page

• The Cross Sections page lists the imported cross sections.

  

• Tap on a specific cross section to display the cross section in the preview panel.

• Tap on a specific cross section to open the context menu and select View to show the list of cross section vertexes and layers.

  

• Tap on Surfaces drop-down list to change layer.

• The left panel lists the vertexes of the cross section with horizontal offset and elevation.

Station equation page

• Forward and backward station equations are available to adjust stations along an alignment. Chainage or station equations are used to adjust the alignment chainage or station.

• The most common reason for doing so is the insertion or removal of curves during the design process.

• Inserting or removing a curve would require recalculating the chainage or station of an entire alignment. Using chainage or station equations eliminates this need.

• Chainage or station equation can create either a gap or an overlap as shown in the following diagrams.

  
  

  
  

• Press Add to create a new station equations.

  

  • Station back: the previous station that is replaced by the station ahead.

  • Station ahead: the station ahead.

  • Description: field for a description.

• Press Add to add the new station equation.

Cross section templates

• The page lists the cross section templates that have been manually assigned to the selected road.

• This allows to apply cross sections to a road when designing a road.

  

• Press Add to add a new template.

  

  • Station: the station where to apply this cross section.

  • Left: the template to use for the left side of the road. Click to select a template from the list of available templates defined in X-Sections template.

  • Right: the template to use for the right side of the road. Click to select a template from the list of available templates defined in X-Sections template.

• Press Save.

• The selected template will be used from the selected station until the following station where a different template is selected.

  

Superelevation page

• The page allows to specify superelevation values to use along the road axis.

• This function is useful to add a rotation on the curves and on clothoids when designing a road in the field.

  

• Press Add to add a new superelevation.

  

  • Station: chainage to which refer the values of superelevation.

  • Left: left superelevation.

  • Right: right superelevation.

• Click Save.

• The values of superelevation are interpolated and applied to the corresponding elements of the section model.

Widenings

• The page allows to specify widening values to use along the road axis.

• This function is useful to add a widening to road elements when designing a road in the field.

  

• Press Add to add a new widening.

  

  • Station: chainage to which refer the values of widening.

  • Left: left widening.

  • Right: right widening.

• Press Save.

• The values of widening are interpolated and applied to the corresponding elements of the section model.

Road edges page

• This page lists the road axis assigned as edges to the selected road.

  

• The page allows also to assign available road axis as edges to the selected road, for example when a road is imported from a DXF file.

• Press Add to select available roads in Road Manager as road edges to the selected road.