Vertical Alignments to Plan (Land Desktop)

[darth051]

Hello,

I am looking for an easy way to take a vertical alignment and turn it into a 3D Polyline on the plan view. I am running Land Desktop 2004 and while it will do the job using the new Road Output commands, it is a bit of a pain to do that way. I can't figure out how to automatically set vertices at the various PIs where the tangents intersect. I can do it manually, but that is a bit of a hassle.

Any help would be appreciated.

David

 

[FH]

Dear darth051,
I don't know the Land Desktop, but, if you can run the autolisp routines in the Land Desktop, you can simply change any sgement alignment to vertical. Just need some time to write the routine.

Farzad

 

[darth051]

FH,

The "vertical" and "horizontal" alignment I am referring to are the road alignments. In Land Desktop, you define the centreline of the road alignment (horizontal) and then with Civil Design you design the corresponding vertical alignment (crest curves, sag curves, tangent sections, etc.) in the Profile. What I am looking for is an easy way to take the resulting vertical alignment and draw it as a 3D polyline overtop the horizontal alignment based on the PVIs for the tangent sections instead of just incremental chainages.