Uneven Chainages

When designing a road in Civil Designer, the road is coordinated at round chainages i.e. 0, 10, 20 , 30 etc. Civil Designer also allows the user to insert additional chainages into the road, this is very useful if chainages of intersections, or culverts needs to be inserted.

The next step would normally be to extract cross sections, but additional chainages need to be added.

Tools › Index › Insert Chainage
 

This dialog allows the user to insert the chainages are required, click cancel once all the chainages have been added.

If the chainages that need to be inserted start at 10 and there must be a chainage at every 2 meters, then the Batch Chainage Insertion function can be used.

Once the chainages have been inserted, then the road is re-coordinated (note that the chainages from index has now been selected)

If the Output window is visible, the inserted chainages will be listed.

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The remainder of the road is designed as per normal. The Road Expert can also be used to assist the Engineer/Technician. The Road Expert can be accessed via the Alignment Menu. The Road Expert will open listing the steps that are still required in the road design.