Plan and profile drawing preparation

Plan and profile drawings are the major design deliverables making up the major part of tender
documents. These drawings shall be carefully prepared using the tools available in Mx-Road.

In MX- Road, Plan and profile drawings are generally created separately as described below.
They are then combined after exporting/saving in AUTOCAD environment.

Plan Drawings

Once you have created a working display, you can produce drawing pages using a page setup. In
general, you will have a page setup available defining all the information required to create a
plan drawing.

Page setups contain information such as page size, orientation, margins, grids and frames. You can edit
the supplied page setups, or create new ones so that these settings conform to your own standards.

 From the main menu bar, click Draw -> Working Drawings -> Create New Drawing


The Page Setup panel is displayed.

 Select the page setup Tutorial A1 Plan by selecting a preview or by selecting it from the File
Name or Description lists.
 Click Next.
 Select Along a String from the type of layout list.

 Select the design model, and the centre line string MC00. You could limit the number of drawing
pages by setting Start and End values.
 Click Next.
 The Page Details panel is displayed and an outline of the first page is placed at the start of the
string. The size of this outline corresponds to the horizontal scale, and shows how much
information will be drawn on the page.
 Set the horizontal scale to 1:500. The first page outline changes size to reflect the new scale.
 Set the overlap value to 10.000.
 If your design contains a number of turns of small radius, you can check Fit Specific Length and use
a chainage interval which ensures that all the model information is drawn.

 Click Next to place the pages along the string as shown in figure 7.27
 Figure 7.27

The Edit Page Layout panel is displayed so that you can adjust the position of any page if required.
  Click the Selected Page and All Next button .

 Edit the start chainage for the first page to be -10.000 rather than 0.000. All the pages along the
string are moved 10m towards the start of the string.1

 Click Next.

The Save Page Layout panel is displayed. This is used to save the page layout so that you can quickly
reproduce the same set of drawings as the design progresses

 Click Next. The page layout is saved and the Draw Plan Pages panel is displayed.
  To add information to the bottom left corner of each drawing page, tick the Scale, Page Number
and Date and Time boxes. You can also define user information by checking User Defined, and
typing the information to be added.
 Click Apply.

The drawing pages are created and displayed as shown in figure 7.28.

The Pages toolbar is displayed automatically, because there is now a drawing on the screen that contains
more than one page. Use it to inspect the pages you have created.
  To return to the original display, click Cancel on the Draw Plan Pages panel, then confirm that
you would like to return to the original working display when prompted.

Profile Drawings

Once you have created, viewed and annotated long sections, you can produce drawing pages
using a page setup. In general, you will have a page setup available defining all the information
required to create long section pages.

 From the main menu bar, click Analysis -> section -> Longsection
 The Long Section Viewer is displayed


 Click the Select Reference String icon and select the Master string MC00 from the design model
 Click Ok.

 Click the Section String icon and select the Triangulation string TX00 from the Triangulation
model
 Click Ok.
The long sections are created in the viewer.
 Click the Create a Drawing icon.
 The Long Sections: Working Drawings panel is displayed.
 On the Section Details tab, ensure that the road centre line string MC00 is selected in the Section
Description list.
 Tick the Annotate Datum, Display levels, Display gradient and Display Chainage Annotation
boxes
 Select the temporary long section string LZ00.
 Tick the Display Level and Display Level Difference box
 Inspect the settings on the Scales and Ranges tab.
 On the Page Setup tab, click Fixed Page and note that the page setup is that which you selected
on entry to the option.
 Tick the annotation option boxes Current and Total Page Numbers, Date and Time and
Drawing Scales.
 On the Horizontal tab, tick the Horizontal Schematic box followed by Length of Straight,
Radius of Curves and Length of Transitions
 On the Vertical tab, tick the Vertical Schematic box, followed by In a Box button
 On the Widening tab, tick the Widening box, select the left and right carriageway strings as
CE00 and CE0I respectively
 On the Superelevation tab, tick the Superelevation Schematic box, select the left and right
carriageway strings as CE00 and CE0I respectively
 Click Save Settings to save the settings you have made.
 Click Apply to create the long section drawing.
The long section drawing pages are created and displayed (shown in figure 7.29 below), complete with all
the annotation you have specified. Use the Pages Toolbar to display each of the drawing pages in turn.
  Click Cancel to return to the viewer.
 Close the viewer by clicking the cross in the corner.
 If the Rename Temporary Model panel appears, ensure that any temporary models are to be
deleted and click Finish.

Cross Section drawing preparation

Once you have created, viewed and annotated cross sections, you can produce drawing pages
using a page setup. In general, you will have a page setup available defining all the information
required to create cross section pages.

 From the main menu bar, click Draw -> Working Drawings -> Create New Drawing.

The Page Setup panel is displayed.

 Select the page setup Tutorial A1 Cross Sections by selecting a preview or by selecting it from
the File Name or Description lists.
 Click Next.

The Cross Section Viewer is displayed.

 Click the View Existing Cross Sections icon to load the cross sections created previously.
The Cross Sections: String Selection panel is displayed.

 Ensure that the sections model is selected.

 Ensure that the design model is selected and select the reference string MC00 from the list.

The available section sets Design (D) and Existing Ground (E) are listed.

 Tick both section set boxes to indicate that you wish to draw both section sets.

You can change the line colours of the section sets by selecting each description in turn and clicking the
Browse button (...) next to the selected section colour.

 Click OK to load the section sets into the Cross Section Viewer.

Notice how the annotation settings have been recalled from the last time you used the viewer.

 Click the Draw Cross Section Pages icon. The Cross Sections: Working Drawings panel is
displayed.
 Click Apply to create the drawing pages.

 On the Section Details tab, ensure that the section set Design is highlighted in the Section
Description list.

The highlighted section set is the current section set and is the section set that the settings on the panel
relate to. Note that some settings are unique to a section set, while others are common across all of them.

 On the Section Details tab, tick the Annotate Datum, Annotate Section Location, Display Level,
Show Offset and Display Ordinates boxes for the Design section set.
 Select the Existing Ground section set, and then tick the Show Offset box.

You may have noticed that some of the text does not quite fit into the caption boxes, and so needs to be
written on a second line.

 Cut and paste the LEVELS and OFFSET text from the first box into the second box for each
setting in turn.
  On the Scales and Range tab, inspect the available settings. For the moment, the default values
are fine.
 On the Page Setup tab, tick the Current and Total Page Numbers box.
 On the Options tab, tick the Annotate Reference String and Annotate with Line boxes and change
the line style to one of the dashed line styles.
 Click Apply to create the drawing pages

The Cross Section Drawings along with Pages Toolbar (to display each of the drawing pages) are
displayed as shown in figure below.

 Click Save Settings and save the settings.

 Click Cancel to return to the viewer.
 Close the viewer by clicking the cross in the corner.