Building InRoads v8

Building InRoads v8.9 Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Building InRoads Overview 1

Section 1 - Exploring InRoads 1

Mastery of the Evaluation and Debugging Skills 1

Introduction to the InRoads Model 1

Chapter 2: Project Defaults, InRoads Options 2-1

Section 1 - Project Defaults 2-1

Section 2 - InRoads Options 2-3

Imperial vs. Metric 2-4

Chapter 3: Introducing InRoads Surfaces 3-1

Section 1 - Surface Overview 3-1

History 3-1

The Early days 3-1

The 3D Terrain Model 3-1

The Intelligent Engineering Model 3-1

The InRoads DTM: Terrain and Engineering Modeling 3-2

“Traditional” Terrain Modeling 3-2

DTM Point Types and Triangulation 3-3

Random Points. 3-3

Triangles. 3-3

Triangulation. 3-4

Why Points Alone Are Not Enough. 3-4

Breaklines. 3-5

Exterior Points and Interior Points. 3-5

Exterior Points. 3-5

Interior Points. 3-6

Contour Points. 3-7

The Feature-Based Engineering Model 3-8

The Implications of Intelligence 3-9

The Good. 3-9

Far Less CAD Work. 3-9

Minimal Rework. 3-9

Eliminating Stupification Example: Survey. 3-9

Example: Maintaining Roadway Modeling Intelligence. 3-10

New Powerful Tools. 3-10

The “Burdens” of Intelligence. 3-10

How InRoads Implements Features 3-10

Adding the Intelligence 3-11

Feature Properties. 3-11

Creating Features. 3-12

Section 2 - Creating Surfaces 3-13

Building Surfaces through Importing Data 3-13

The InRoads Import commands 3-13

Building Surfaces from Text Information 3-13

Importing Random Points 3-14

Saving the Surface. 3-17

Importing Breaklines 3-18

Saving the Surface. 3-21

Triangulating the Surface 3-21

The Import Surface form 3-23

Adding Graphical Spot Elevations 3-24

Bounding the Surface 3-26

Maximum Triangle Length 3-26

Exterior Boundary 3-27

Importing an Exterior Boundary from Graphics. 3-28

Importing Underground Utilities 3-30

Other Important Commands 3-32

Oops: Deleting Features 3-32

Chapter 4: Building Horizontal Alignments: the Basics 4-1

Section 1 - Managing Geometry 4-1

Communication 4-1

Self-Documentation 4-1

Naming Conventions 4-1

Organizing Geometry 4-1

Object “Status” 4-1

“All in One” or Segregated by Area or Phase? 4-2

Advantages to Multiple files. 4-2

Advantage of a Single file 4-2

Section 2 - Building Practice Alignments 4-3

Creating New Geometry 4-3

Creating Horizontal Alignments 4-5

Alignment naming convention 4-6

Building Horizontal Alignments with the Horizontal Curve Set tools. 4-7

Saving the Geometry Project 4-9

File Compatibility 4-9

Clarification: The Identify Alignment End prompt 4-10

Insert PI, Move PI and Delete PI 4-14

Insert PI 4-14

Move PI 4-16

Delete PI 4-16

Section 3 - Precision Key-in 4-17

Section 4 - Project Lab: Creating Road Alignments 4-20

Chapter 5: Building Vertical Alignments: the Basics 5-1

Section 1 - Creating the Profile 5-1

Creating a New Vertical Alignment 5-3

Naming Conventions for Verticals: 5-3

Section 2 - The Vertical Curve Set commands 5-4

Add [Vertical] PI 5-4

Defining Vertical Curves 5-7

Vertical Adjustments 5-10

Chapter 6: Introducing “Pushing” Templates 6-1

Section 1 - Roadway Modeling Overview 6-1

Typical vs. “Deviations from Typical” 6-1

InRoads Roadway Designer: Overview 6-1

Whaddya mean my InRoads Experience is irrelevant? 6-2

Lots of Parallel 6-2

Dramatically expanded capability 6-2

Section 2 - Working with the Roadway Designer 6-2

“Dropping Templates” 6-2

Section 3 - Exploring the Template Library 6-4

Introduction to the Create Template Interface 6-7

The “Information” Treeview 6-8

The Editing Window 6-8

Checking Slope and Width (and other constraints) 6-10

Checking data with Tooltips 6-10

Editing/Reviewing Points and Components 6-11

Template Library Organization 6-12

Exploring the Templates 6-13

Organization of this class Template Library 6-13

Lab: Understand which templates are suitable for providing a proposed roadway solution. 6-14

Section 4 - Running Express Modeler 6-14

Section 5 - Managing New Created Surfaces 6-17

Save the Surface! 6-18

Adding Information to the Features 6-19

Chapter 7: Introducing the InRoads Roadway Designer 7-1

Introducing the Roadway Designer 7-1

What has changed from Roadway Modeler to Roadway Designer 7-1

The Old Stuff: 7-1

The New Stuff 7-1

Tweaking, Old and New 7-1

Section 1 - Creating a Corridor 7-2

Create a Corridor “slot” 7-4

Create a Template Drop 7-6

Creating a Design Surface in Roadway Designer 7-7

Section 2 - Transitioning Templates 7-8

How Transitioning Templates Works 7-8

Creating a Corridor with Lane Transitioning 7-8

Defining the Transition Stations Drops 7-9

Editing the Transition 7-10

Removing the Horizontal Constraints 7-14

Section 3 - Superelevation 7-16

Calculating Superelevation Rates. 7-17

Superelevation Section Definitions 7-19

Section 4 - Hooking Up Components 7-23

Avoiding Common Errors 7-23

Dragging and Dropping Components 7-25

Deleting Components 7-26

QC/Cleanup 7-27

Point Connectivity 7-27

Merging Components 7-28

Testing End Conditions 7-29

Section 5 - Simple Component Edits 7-30

Chapter 8: Surface Editing Tools 8-1

Section 1 - Merging Surfaces 8-1

Destination and “Intermediate” Surfaces 8-3

Retain All Original Surface Points 8-3

Retain Features Excluded from Triangulation 8-3

Add Design Surface Edge as Breakline 8-3

Included Design Surface Features frame 8-3

Duplicate Names 8-4

Section 2 - Generate Longitudinal Feature 8-6

The Main Controls 8-6

Reference Feature: 8-7

Lab: Building a Road using GLF 8-9

Section 3 - Generate Sloped Surface 8-16

Tying into the Existing Surface 8-16

Section 4 - Adding the Daylight Features to the design surface. 8-19

Chapter 9: Building a Pond 9-1

Chapter 10: Building a Site 10-1

Section 1 - The Major Design commands 10-1

Place Feature 10-1

Edit Feature Point 10-4

Generate Longitudinal Feature 10-5

The Main Controls 10-5

Reference Feature: 10-6

Generate Sloped Surface 10-14

Copy Portion of Surface 10-17

The Project Line to Surface command 10-18

Partial Delete 10-21

Chapter 11: Horizontal and Vertical Element Geometry 11-1

How the Horizontal Element Commands work 11-1

Display the Horizontal Alignment Toolbar. 11-2

Integrity 11-3

Forms and Prompts 11-3

Starting Simple: Add Fixed Line 11-3

The Edit Horizontal Element command 11-5

The Add Fixed Curve command 11-7

“Directionality” 11-10

Changing Element Direction 11-11

The Add Floating Line Command 11-12

The Add Floating Curve Command 11-13

The Define Spiral command 11-14

The Delete Horizontal Element Command 11-14

The Check Integrity command 11-14

“Real” Lab: Cross-Valley Canyon 11-15

· Vertical Element Commands 11-16

Chapter 12: Building Components 12-1

Section 1 - Overview of the New Template Functionality 12-1

Section 2 - Overview of Components 12-2

Adding Components 12-2

Design Aids 12-3

Template Options 12-3

Dynamic Settings 12-4

Dynamic Layout Precision keyins: 12-4

Component Types 12-5

Null Components 12-5

Unconstrained Components 12-6

Constrained Components 12-8

Simple Components 12-9

End Condition Components 12-10

Section 3 - Building Components 12-12

Template Library Organizer 12-12

Placement Tips and Techniques 12-12

Template Origin 12-16

Tips for Affixes 12-16

Deleting Components 12-17

Placing a Simple Component 12-17

Point Naming 12-18

Subgrade Management Concepts 12-19

Building a Constrained Component 12-19

Sequence and Sequence Editing 12-19

Constrained or Unconstrained 12-19

Section 4 - Point Constraints 12-24

Why Constrain? 12-24

What Constraints? 12-24

Section 5 - End Condition Components 12-27

Immediate Success vs. a Long Learning Curve 12-27

End Condition Logic 12-28

End Condition Properties. 12-29

Testing and Priorities 12-31

“Tweaking” an Existing End Condition 12-33

Building a Simple End Condition 12-35

Building an End Condition Solution from Individual End Condition Components 12-38

Verify Component Priorities 12-41

Building a Complex End Condition Solution 12-42

Chapter 13: Managing InRoads Settings 13-1

Section 1 - Managing InRoads: the Big Picture 13-1

InRoads Management Technologies 13-1

The end user’s expectation and role in Managing the InRoads Environment 13-2

Command Preferences 13-2

Settings 13-2

Feature Styles 13-2

Named Symbology 13-3

Section 2 - Managing InRoads: the Specifics 13-3

Named Symbology 13-3

Definition Hierarchy 13-4

Line Symbology 13-5

Text Symbology 13-5

Point Symbology 13-6

Feature Style Overview 13-6

Feature Style Surface Settings Controls 13-8

3-D/Plan Display Toggles 13-9

Cross Section and Profile Display Toggles 13-10

Preferences 13-12

Command Preferences 13-12

Managing Preference Sets across Many Commands. 13-12

The Preference Manager 13-12

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