Highway Geometric Design

Using
Eagle Point
Presented by:
Engr. Afed Ullah Khan
Highway Geometric Design
Geometric Design:
The design of visible and physical features.

X-Section
Profile
Alignment
Eagle Point Software
It is one of abundantly used software for a
variety of civil engineering design works.
the modules available in latest Eagle Point
Software are:

Data Collection
Data Transfer
Surface Modeling
Eagle Point Software
RoadCalc
Storm Sewers
Sanitary Sewers
Water Surface Profiling
Water Shed Modeling

Surface Modeling & RoadCalc
Surface modeling is used to generate a
topographic map.

It creates the surface model from physical
features of the original ground survey points and
their respective elevation.


Surface Modeling & RoadCalc
In highway geometric designs, the RoadCalc is
the basic program package used for this
purpose.

RoadCalc deals with roadway geometric design,
earthwork computation, and drafting
capabilities.

Getting Started
Click on Eagle Point Icon
Click on create new project
Click next
write project description etc and click Finish
Click and
save the
drawings in
the required
folder
Click ok
Click products Surface Modeling
Surface Modeling sub window is opened
In surface modeling window click on prepare import ASCII Points
click
Go to the folder where the required data file is saved and click open
Click Apply
Point are transferred to AutoCAD
Draw boundary around the points by polyline
In Surface Modeling Window click on Triangulate Surface Model.
Click
Click on new Surface model, give name to surface and close the window
New Surface Model
Check Display Model and Place Triangles and then click Apply
The AutoCAD command bar will ask for Select Object
Select the whole object and press enter
AutoCAD is asking for selection of boundary,
Select the boundary and close the window. Triangles will be drawn.
To draw contours of the required data, click on Contours Make intermediate & Index
In drop down list select the required surface name which was defined in previous steps
Check Use Screen Display
Check User Defined Boundary and click Apply
AutoCAD is asking for Boundary selection. Select boundary. Contours will be drawn
Contour lines are shown.
In surface modeling window, click contours Annotate..
For displaying the elevation values of different contour lines.
This is all about Surface Modeling
RoadCalc.
Click on new project
Highlight the RoadCalc Sub-project and click Next
Write description of project and click Next
Now click Finish and then click ok
RoadCalc sub-Window is opened
Draw the polyline as your desired Alignment.
From RoadCalc Window click on Alignment Convert objects to Alignment.
The command line will ask for Selection of object,
just click on the polyline drawn for Alignment.

The command line will ask for picking the point near the beginning of alignment.

On clicking the beginning point following window will appear.

Click on apply. The polyline will automatically change its color to RED,
which means that your Alignment is converted to element.
The Alignment (NSL) color is changed into RED
Click Cross-sections Extract Cross-Sections.
You can change the station interval
Then click ok
Check the Orig_Surface, also you can change the Corridor Edge
Click ok

Mark all the
stations if unmark
Stations are marked according to given data
Curves setting
In RoadCalc window, click Alignment Edit data.
Click
Click on Curve Data to edit the different parameters of curve
Click horizontal speed tables for data input
Click
Below table shows different parameters of horizontal based on Speed
Select the required design speed for horizontal curve, software will give
you different parameters automatically
Click
Eagle point will ask for at which intersection you want to draw a curve.
Select All, and click OK.
After clicking ok, curves will be drawn at all intersections according to
the data entered
In RoadCalc window, click Profiles Extract from Surface Model
In profile name select centerline and in from surface model select surface1,
then click ok
AutoCAD command line ask for object selection.
Select the centerline alignment and press enter.
In command line write Z E
Alignment is converted to profile (NSL)
Below line shows the Original Ground Profile i.e. NSL
Now we will draw the Suitable Formation Level
Below white line is the required FL.
In RoadCalc window, click Profiles Convert object to Profile
AutoCAD command bar ask for object selection.
Select FL and press enter
Click next
Select centerline in profile dropdown list, and click Finish
The FL colored is changed which shows FL alignment is converted to profile
Click profile Original Ground Profiles..
The NSL color is changed to Green
NSL Green line
FL Red line

Now we will construct sections for different layers
Click Typical Sections Construct Typical Section
Name is given to different layers i.e. awc, abc, sbc etc
Click on precision input
Put input values for cross-sections.
i.e. width and slope of carriage way, shoulder.
Center line
Copy section from right to left as shown below
Click define Typical Section
Highlight awc and click OK
AutoCAD is asked for pick point in awc boundary
In Road Calc Menu bar click on Process Manage Condition tables
Click on new condition table and give name to condition table. Click OK < close.
In Road Calc Click on Process Edit Design Locations
Click new both in Typical Section Location & Condition Table Locations
and put Zero in station values in both cases. And click close.
Click on Process Run Design
click Run and then close.
In Road Calc Menu, click Output Cross-Section Sheets.
click New Cross-Section Sheets
Just click OK
X- section sheets
Click Output Plan and Profile Sheets.
Highlight any section and click on view tool