Creating a Corridor

Considering the complexity and sophistication of a corridor, the process of creating one is actually quite simple. Once the alignment, profile, and assembly are in place, it’s just a matter of telling these three objects that they belong together. Of course, the design is far from complete at this point, but as you’ll see in the next exercise, creating the initial version of a corridor involves only a few steps.

To create a corridor from an alignment, profile, and assembly that already exist in a drawing, follow these steps:

The Exercise File can be downloaded at the end of the article  

1. Open the drawing named Creating A Corridor.dwg located in the Chapter 09 class data folder.

2. On the Home tab of the ribbon, click Corridor.
3. In the Create Corridor dialog box, do the following:
   1. For Name, enter Jordan Court.
   2. For Alignment, verify that Jordan Court is selected.
   3. For Profile, select Jordan Court FGCL.
   4. For Assembly, select Subdivision Road.
   5. Uncheck the box next to Set Baseline And Region Parameters.
   6. Click OK.

      Tips :Normally you would also make a choice for Target Surface but for now, we'll leave this setting set to <none>.

4. Zoom in to the bottom-right viewport, and notice the corridor that has been created there (see Figure 9.7).

   Figure 9.7  A portion of the newly created corridor shown in a 3D perspective.

Download Exercise File :

• C09 - Creating a Corridor - Metric     --- ( 1 MB )
• C09 - Creating a Corridor - Imperial  --- ( 949.3 KB )