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Corridor Boundaries

To create a land acquisition boundary line from the outer limits of a corridor at an offset of 0.50m outside the daylight
cut or fill feature lines.
do it by extracting a feature line from the corridor and then stepped offset it with a distance of 0.50m and a grade of
0.00% to the outside of the corridor, assign elvations from surface, assign it a style and you’re done. But then you
have to recreate it over and over again every time when the corridor is rebuild.
If you want to automate this, the solution lies within the corridor itself. In fact, within the assembly it’s built from. So
this is how I solved it: add a LinkWidthAndSlope subassembly placed at the end of any daylight or
LinkSlopeToSurface subassembly, add 0.50m to the Width value and 0.00% to the Slope value.
Last but not the least: Omit the link, so it will not be used by the corridor for creating corridor surfaces. And you
should also name the P2 point code to a more appropriate name like: Boundary or OffsetPoint, and incorporate this
code to your code set style where you assign it a feature line style.

Now every time you recreate the corridor, the boundary is updated.
But this is not quite what I was looking for. It works great for plan view purposes only. But if I want to have information
of the existing ground surface for stake-out purposes for example, then I want to have the boundary line to follow the
exisiting ground conditions. So I added an extra subassembly to determine the exact daylight point at the applied
offset. And I added the LinkSlopeToSurface subassembly with a cut or fill slope of 99999% which is near to vertical
placed at the end of the outer LinkWidthAndSlope subassembly.
Don’t forget to Omit the link. This will show a total different layout than when it’s not omitted.

Rebuild the corridor and you’ll see like in below picture in Plan view and in Section view how the boundary line looks
like.
In cross section view I added a guardrail markerpoint to see it more clearly of where the boundary line will follow the
exisiting ground.

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