o create an alignment using the alignment layout tools
1. Click Home tab
Tools .
Create Design panel
Alignment drop-down
Alignment Creation
2. In the Create Alignment Layout Dialog Box, enter a unique name for the alignment.
3. Specify the alignment Type.
4. Enter an optional description.
5. Enter a starting station value.
6. On the General tab, specify the following settings:
o SiteSpecify a site with which to associate the alignment or accept the default
<None>. For more information, see Understanding Sites.
o Alignment Style
o Alignment Layer
o Alignment Label Set
7. On the Design Criteria tab, specify a Starting Design Speed to apply to the alignment
starting station.This design speed is applied to the entire alignment. Additional design
speeds can be applied at other stations after the alignment has been created. For more
information, see Alignment Properties.
NoteIf you do not want to apply design criteria to the alignment, proceed to Step 8.
8. To associate design standards with the alignment, select the Use Criteria-Based Design
check box.For more information, see Criteria-Based Alignment Design.
On the Design Criteria tab, specify the following settings:
Use Design Criteria FileSelect this check box to associate a design criteria file with the
alignment. The default design criteria file location and the Default Criteria properties
becomes available when you select the check box.
Note Depending on the specified alignment type, the first design criteria file found in the
following directory is used by default when the criteria-based design feature is used.
o Centerline, Offset, or Curb Return alignments: C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users|Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D2013\enu\Data\Corridor
Design Standards\<units>
o Rail alignments: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users|Application
Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD Civil 3D2013\enu\Data\Railway Design
Standards\<units>
o Use Design Check SetSelect this check box to associate a design check set with
the alignment. The design check set list becomes available when you select the
check box. Select a design check set from the list.
9. Click OK to display the Alignment Layout Tools toolbar.
10. Use the commands on the Alignment Layout Tools toolbar to draw the alignment. For
more information, see Alignment Layout Tools and Adding Constraint-Based Alignment
Entities.
Creating an Assembly with a Transition Lane
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Create an assembly baseline
1. Open Corridor-2a.dwg, which is available in the tutorials drawings folder.
2. Click Home tab
Create Design panel
Assembly drop-down
Create Assembly
In the Create Assembly dialog box, for Name, enter Transition. Click OK.
When the Specify assembly baseline location prompt is displayed on the command line,
click a point in the drawing to place the assembly.
The viewport zooms to the assembly baseline, which looks like this:
Add a lane subassembly
1. If the Tool Palette containing the subassemblies is not visible, click Home tab
panel Tool Palettes
Palettes
1. .
2. In the tool palette, right-click the Tool Palettes control bar. Click Civil Imperial
Subassemblies.
3. Click the Basic tab.
4. Click
BasicLaneTransition.
5. In the Properties palette, under ADVANCED, specify the following parameters:
o Side: Right
o Default Width: 14.0000
o Depth: 1.0000
o Transition: Change Offset And Elevation
6. In the drawing, click the marker point on the assembly baseline.
A lane is drawn, extending 14 feet to the right, with a slope of -2% and a depth of 1 foot.
Add a curb and gutter subassembly
1. In the tool palette, click
BasicCurbAndGutter.
2. In the Properties palette, under ADVANCED, specify the following parameters:
o Side: Right
o Gutter Width: 1.2500
3. In the drawing, click the marker point at the top-right edge of the lane to draw the curb
and gutter.
Add a sidewalk subassembly
1. In the tool palette, click
BasicSidewalk.
2. In the Properties palette, under ADVANCED, specify the following parameters:
o Side: Right
o Buffer Width 1: 2.0000
o Buffer Width 2: 3.0000
3. In the drawing, click the marker point at the top back-side of the curb to add the sidewalk
and its buffer zones.
Add a ditch subassembly
1. In the tool palette, click
BasicSideSlopeCutDitch.
2. In the Properties palette, under ADVANCED, specify the following parameters:
o Side: Right
o Cut Slope: 3.000:1
3. In the drawing, click the marker point at the outside edge of the outer sidewalk buffer
zone to add the cut-and-fill slope.
Add a transition lane subassembly
1. In the tool palette, click
BasicLaneTransition.
2. In the Properties palette, under ADVANCED, specify the following parameters:
o Side: Left
o Default Width: 12.0000
o Depth: 1.0000
o Transition: Hold Grade, Change Offset
3. In the drawing, click the marker point on the assembly baseline. A lane is drawn,
extending 12 feet to the left, with a slope of -2% and a depth of 1 foot.
Mirror the subassemblies outside the right lane
1. Press Esc to exit subassembly placement mode.
2. In the drawing, on the right-hand side of the assembly, select the curb, sidewalk, and
daylight subassemblies. Right click. Click Mirror.
3. Click the marker point at the top-left edge of the transition lane to draw a mirror of the
curb, sidewalk, and daylight subassemblies.
The subassemblies are displayed on the left side of the assembly marker.
The Mirror command creates a mirror image of the selected subassemblies. All the
subassembly parameters, except for the Side parameter, are retained.
Note:
The parameters of the mirrored subassemblies are not dynamically linked. If you change
a parameter value for a subassembly on one side of the assembly baseline, the change
will not be applied to the opposite side.
The finished assembly looks like this:
Specify the basic corridor information
Note:
This exercise uses Corridor-2a.dwg from the previous exercise, or you can open Corridor2b.dwg from the Tutorial Folder Locations.
1. Click Home tab
Create Design panel
Corridor
1. .
2. In the Create Corridor dialog box, specify the following parameters:
o Name: Corridor Transition Lanes
o Alignment: Centerline (1)
o Profile: Layout (1)
o Assembly: Transition
The Transition assembly includes the BasicLaneTransition subassembly, which
uses the Transition parameter to specify that both the offset and elevation can
change on the right side of the corridor. The offset can change on the left side of
the corridor but the grade is held at -2%.
o Target Surface: EG
o Set Baseline and Region Parameters: Selected
3. Click OK.
Specify the fixed lane horizontal target
1. In the Baseline and Region Parameters dialog box, click Set All Targets.
2. In the Target Mapping dialog box, in the Transition Alignment row for
BasicLaneTransition (Right), click the Object Name field.
3. In the Set Width Or Offset Target dialog box, specify the following parameters:
o Select Object Type To Target: Alignments
o Select Alignments: Right (1)
4. Click Add. Click OK.
Specify the transition lane horizontal target
1. In the Transition Alignment row for BasicLaneTransition (Left), click the Object Name
field.
2. In the Set Width Or Offset Target dialog box, in the Select Object Type To Target list,
select Feature Lines, Survey Figures And Polylines.
3. Click Select From Drawing.
4. In the drawing, on the left side of the alignment, select the blue polyline and magenta
feature line. Press Enter.
The entities are added to the table at the bottom of the Set Width Or Offset Target dialog
box.
5. Click OK.
Notice that because the subassembly names contain the assembly side, it is easy to
determine which assembly must target which offset object. This naming convention is
even more useful in road designs that contain many alignments and subassemblies. For
information on updating the subassembly naming template, see the Modifying the
Subassembly Name Template exercise.
Specify the fixed lane elevation targets
1. In the Transition Profile row for BasicLaneTransition (Right), click the Object Name
field.
2. In the Set Slope Or Elevation Target dialog box, specify the following parameters:
o Select Object Type To Target: Profiles
o Select An Alignment: Right (1)
o Select Profiles: Layout (1)
3. Click Add. Click OK.
The right-side edge-of-pavement elevation is set to the Layout (1) profile. The left-side
edge-of-pavement elevation does not need to be set since its elevation is determined by
the grade setting.
4. Click OK twice.
The corridor model is built, and looks like this:
Note:
Notice that at station 7+50, the lane uses the polyline as a target, and not the feature line.
When more than one target object is found at a station, the object that is closest to the
corridor baseline is used as the target.
A detail of the overlapping objects
