Designing InRoads: The new InRoads Roadway Designer

This book is included in Building InRoads v8.7-v8.9 and is available in standalone for InRoads Users updating to the new InRoads.

The following is the topical outline and lab workflow for "Designing InRoads"

What's New in v8.7+ Geometry and Surfaces

Part I: Exploring the Roadway Designer

Typical Sections: Introducing Typical Sections

Overview

comparison to old Template Editor

Introduction to the Create Template Interface

Visual Cues & Right-clicking

Opening and Exploring a Typical Section Library

New: Components

"Live" Testing

Optimizing the Interface (Display References)

Express Modeler

Pushing a Simple Template

Results

Surfaces

Components

Introducing the Roadway Designer

Overview

Comparison: Corridors v. Roadway Definitions

The Roadway Designer Interface

Opening a Roadway Library and Selecting a Corridor

Visual Cues & Right-clicking

Running down the Road/Process All

The Superelevation Interface

The Superelevation Diagram: Cause, Not Result!

Creating Surfaces

Components in the Model

Part II: Designing Roadways

Typical Sections: Basic Constraints

Overview
Point Relationships ("Constraints")
Backbone

Roadway Designer - Second Pass: Transition Editing

Overview
Template Drops
Editing Template Transitions
- Default Behavior
- Constraints in the Transition

Typical Sections: Components

Backbone
End Conditions (Simple)
Hooking Up Pre-Built Backbones and Ends

Roadway Designer - Third Pass: Building a Simple Corridor

Creating a Corridor
Dropping Templates
Editing a Transition

Typical Sections: Building Components

Adding Components

Point Constraints

Dynamic Settings

Building a Simple Single Layer Template

Multiple/Complex End Conditions

Roadway Designer - Fourth Pass: Superelevation

Superelevation Points in the Template
The Superelevation Wizard
Refining via the Superelevation Diagram

Typical Sections: Multiple Layered Templates

Managing Multiple Layers
Parametric Label Constraints
Alternate Surface

Roadway Designer - Pass #5: Multiple-Layered Templates

Typical Sections: Misc. Advanced Topics

Point Controls

Roadway Designer: Misc. Advanced Topics

Point Controls
End Condition Exceptions
Overrides and Transitions
Display Rule/Component Display Conditional Expression)
Updates in Templates vs. Updates in the Roadway Designer

Ordering "Designing InRoads: The new InRoads Roadway Designer"

Designing InRoads cost $135 and will be available in January 2007. Ordering information and buttons will appear when the books are available for purchase.