Vertical Design

There are some new images in the gallery dedicated to illustrating the versatility and simplicity of ASE Civil's Basin definitions. If you have a few minutes, check out some of the new additions.

Did you Know, ASE Basins:

... can be created from a 3DPolyline at any elevation? This makes them easy to draw in-place from plan view. Define with a click; Enter a few parameters and you're done.

... will integrate automatically when building your FG surface using ASE's 'Surface Mgt' toolbar? After basin definition, click the 'Build" option in the toolbar and your new basin definition will appear in the surface automatically.

... are vertically linked to other ASE elements? When Basins are refreshed after a vertical change occurs in an adjacent road or ASE Pad, they will recalculate their graded characteristics (size, shape) based on changes in the surrounding ASE vertical design elements. The Basin geometry and…

If you're seeing this error message at your command prompt when attempting to initialize your vertical design drawing, then you should definitely review this page for a solution or workaround to get past this issue.

This post is loosely-related to the last post re: Corridor model output failure. That was shown to be a result of invalid Base Map Control data source objects. Usually, duplicate/overlaid objects are the root-cause of the ugly corridor models output seen at times.

However, this issue appears to be the same (Since the output pretty much does the same squiggly/jiggly jumping back & forth between stationed increments) the cause of this anomaly is unrelated to Base Map Control data directly.

If one of your past projects contained corridors & profiles which appear 'damaged' in parts of the model, like in the sample image above, there is a new 'Use-Cases' page that describes what's causing this and how to fix it.

After supporting a client with this issue, a new page was created detailing how to handle this scenario. I'm sure most of you have seen this ugliness before...

Click on the image to be taken to the page.