Working with Gradings and Grading Groups

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Written by Ian Jrgensen and Jos Miguel Lameiras

Thursday, 28 October 2010 06:34

1st tip
In a modelling process it is sometimes handy to work with gradings. For example, when you want an area to
meet existing terrain in a precise technical slope. You can create your grading, then use the start featur line
and the daylight line as breaklines, you add to your surface, without creating automatic surface based on the
grading objects. The object is then linked to the surface, and the parameters can be changed and updated as
the surface is rebuilded. In the following you find a tutorial how this is made.
Create a new site in Toolspace.
Draw your start feature line with the right z-value.
Open the Grading Creation Tools - menu/ grading/ create grading...

Set the Grading Group

1. Select the site (the new site you created).
2. Create new grading group, in the dialog box: Give the group a name, do not tick "Automatic surface
creation" + OK+OK
3. Select grading parameters from the scroll down menu + Create Grading
Select the top and bottom of the slope (your start-feature line + the daylight line).

Right click - Add to surface as breakline - Select surface - Name the input.

Now the two feature lines, from the grading group, is linked to the surface.

You are now able to change the parameters for the grading and rebuilding your surface to see the changes.
Do following:
1. Open the grading editor, select the grading = the slope
2. In the panorama view you can change the parameters to the criteria
3. Rebuild the surface to see the changes. Unfortunately the surface does not show a warning sign when the
surface need to be rebuilded after this change in the grading.

2nd tip
When you do a grading and eg. grade to surface, then you can choose not to apply to entire lenth. Afterwards
you have a possiblity to edit your slope range by drag-n-drop.
This is shown on the image below. Here the vertix is extended 6 meter.

Here the vertex is extended around the corner.

3rd tip
You can do the exact same thing to a grading object containing an arc or cirkle, but be aware to use the
Supplementing Factor when you add the feature lines to the surface as breaklines

In this case a Distance of 10m and a Mid-ordinate distance of 0.1 is good, but it waries in the current situation.
These values helps to import more information into the surface, and the arc will be nicely build.

Select the FT-surface - right click - select Object Viewer... and turn the object to see it in 3D view:
Notice: The surface in wwg.dwg called: "TEST STYLE: 10 Cm. Contours + points + triangles" is 5 times
exaggerated in the z-direction.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 November 2010 11:28