"Accelerator" Coming for Paving Feature Design

After spending so much time lately, in-and-out of ASE vertical design drawings, I've gained a heightened awareness of the need for this capability. I've thought about building this in the past, but never really got going heavy on development of an actual solution. Seemed like it'd be a great idea. But, the coding... The integration... OMG...

A Few Years Later...

After the need reared its ugly head again, it found me much better equipped to address this, packin' a few new coding skills and experience that has changed how I approach development challenges.

Current Status

I've done a small amount of development on this a while back, but nothing recently. However, I've been thinking about it frequently, imaging how I could weave that intelligence into the current architecture. I'm ready to bust a move on this now... Kinda anxious, actually. I know what a…

FAQ

"...What does this message really mean?..."

Answer

It's benign and nothing to worry about.

All it's indicating are the number of locations where ASE Civil asked Civil 3D to provide a surface elevation, but not data was given.

I have a vertical curve going through a tee intersection. Everything looks great for the profile with the vertical curve. However, the new pavement grades for the vertical curve don’t reflect in the other [intersecting] profile. The other profile just wants to show the grade break grades. Are there any solutions for that besides changing them by hand? [See the] images below. Vertical curve is on 86th Street with PVI at intersection.

Collector Street profile

Intersecting Street profile

It appears that most ASE users, even some experienced, are unaware of a really useful command that can save you considerable time. Maybe the reason it's little-known is because it's not in the menu.

If your alignment NAME changes after you've already finished your Paving Feature design in ASE, if you try to share the data again, ASE is going to output nothing at all because the alignment name stored in ASE's database doesn't exist anymore. The name of the alignment was ASE key to all the alignment's data.

Most people will undefine all the paving features, then redefine them again with the new alignment name.

There's a better way though... WAAAAY better.

Type "RPDB" at the AutoCAD command prompt.

This dialog will appear: