Clean up Corridor

[net]

Hi,

I am struggling to clean up a corridor.

In the picture below you will see that there are magenta lines crossing the corridor. These lines represent sampling frequency of the corridor. I want to turn these off but can not find a place to do so. I still need the sampling to be done but I do not want to see where it has been done as this can make plans totally unreadable.

I still want to show the cut and fill banks of the corridor. I assume that there must be a way to separate the bits of informaion onto different layers. I just cannot find out how though.

Tks
(C3D 2008)

[sinc]

There are multiple ways. The easiest might be to use the style - Sample Lines have their own styles, just like most things in C3D. So you can control the display of the line there.

You can also user Object Layer settings (in the Drawing Settings) to put your overall Corridor object on its own layer, and use the layer visibility controls for the overall Corridor layer to keep it from showing up in the plot. Assuming you have other styles set appropriately, you should still be able to see the stuff you want to see.

[net]

There are multiple ways. The easiest might be to use the style - Sample Lines have their own styles, just like most things in C3D. So you can control the display of the line there.

You can also user Object Layer settings (in the Drawing Settings) to put your overall Corridor object on its own layer, and use the layer visibility controls for the overall Corridor layer to keep it from showing up in the plot. Assuming you have other styles set appropriately, you should still be able to see the stuff you want to see.

I think that you might have misinterpretted my use of the words "sample lines". These are not the sample lines that are generated from sampling sections. These are the 'lines' created when the corridor places the assembly along the alignment. From what I can see there is no style that separates the components of the the items displayed in a corridor. You can add items to the display but not turn on and off those items within a style layer dialogue.

Anyone else that can help? I have come so close and this is one of the last stumbling blocks to getting a good project to look good.

[Harold Pei Jr]

One thing you COULD do is to set your frequency to a number larger than the length of your alignment.

[sinc]

Anyone else that can help? I have come so close and this is one of the last stumbling blocks to getting a good project to look good.

Oh, sorry. I thought you were after something like the attached images, one showing what it looks like on-screen, the other showing what it looks like when it's printed.

But since that's not what you're after, I'll let someone who understands you answer instead.

[net]

Oh, sorry. I thought you were after something like the attached images, one showing what it looks like on-screen, the other showing what it looks like when it's printed.

But since that's not what you're after, I'll let someone who understands you answer instead.


Hi sinc,

No, you are almost correct. How did you turn off the light blue lines? Were they generated by the corridor 'frequncy' calculation or by sampling sections?

[net]

One thing you COULD do is to set your frequency to a number larger than the length of your alignment.

Do I completely misunderstand the frequency setting? When I increase the setting the corridor calculation gets spaced further apart and the appearance gets more 'coarse' (for want of a better word). So increasing it makes the calculation these accurate and certainly less attractive to look at.

Is this correct?

[brian.hailey933139]

My approach would be to not plot the drawing the corridor is in. Simlply reference the results of the corridor model into another drawing and then plot that. If you are creating the corridor to get a surface, data reference that into another drawing.

If you must plot this file, to not see the "links", simply change the code set style (or create a new one) and assign a "none" style to your links and then assign that code set style to your corridor

[net]

My approach would be to not plot the drawing the corridor is in. Simlply reference the results of the corridor model into another drawing and then plot that. If you are creating the corridor to get a surface, data reference that into another drawing.

If you must plot this file, to not see the "links", simply change the code set style (or create a new one) and assign a "none" style to your links and then assign that code set style to your corridor

This sounds like what I am looking for. I have looked at the 'Code Set Styles' under 'General' and cannot find the appropriate one to change. Also, if I was to create a new one I can not find where I would tell the corridor to use it :( .

Further to this I do not see how the corridor style is of much for anything. It only gives you the option to turn 4 layers on and off and by default they always seem to be set off and turning them on doesn't show anything anyway. Very puzzling.

Perhaps my understanding of the corridor is wrong. I thought you could use it as a design tool (visual of the product) and a presentation tool (plan information, etc.). Now it seems like it is only a design tool and that you need to use it to create a surface that you then use for presentation. The problem I have with this is that the corridor will cut and fill banks with custom tick marks which is something that you want to show on the plans. However to get rid of the excess line generation (frequency lines, etc.) you need to undo the good info and generate a new DTM that does not show cut and fill tick marks. Pity, unless I am just not figuring out the corridor properley.

Help?

[brian.hailey933139]

Corridor properties - Codes tab.

[sinc]

Hi sinc,

No, you are almost correct. How did you turn off the light blue lines? Were they generated by the corridor 'frequncy' calculation or by sampling sections?

Before creating the corridor, I went into Drawing Settings -> Object Layer Settings and set the Corridors to go on a certain layer. That layer is set to "NoPlot" in the layer settings.

The result is that all of the "corridor construction lines" (for want of a better term) are placed on the layer I specified in the Object Layer settings. All the other stuff - the alignment, the surface, etc. - gets its display controlled by the styles for each particular object, so they are visible. And since I have the Corridor layer set to "NoPlot", I can see it on-screen, but it won't show up on the printed plot.

If you have already created your corridor, you should be able to create a new "NoPlot" layer, select the corridor, and move it to that layer. This should move all your "corridor construction lines" to the new "NoPlot" layer. But assuming you have all your other layers setup correctly, you should still be able to print things like the corridor surface and the alignment.

As an added trick, you can turn on the Elevation display for your corridor surface, and set it to display one elevation range with color 255. This will "hide" the EG contours under your corridor surface. Unfortunately, the EG and FG contours will not always tie together exactly because of the error in TIN surface representations, but this can be a handy trick for when you don't want to see the EG contours under your corridor.

[walford]

I am not sure if your styles are set up the same or this is coming in from my template, but to control the corridor "sampling" lines, I go to Settings\General\Link Styles\Standard. Under that I created a Coridor Link layer so I could turn them on and off as needed. I did the same thing with the daylight lines. If you do not have these link styles, you would have to create them based on the assembly point codes.