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- posted 06/27/07 by Daniel Philbrick The Corridor Section Editor
- View/Edit Corridor Sections – The “CSV”
Internally, we refer to the command Corridor -> View/Edit Corridor Section as the “CSV”. In its first incarnation, it was a viewer, and the editing came in a later release. The original tool was called the “CSV” and we continue to use that name internally. This feature was invented and developed Kumud Vaidya who is our Corridor UI guru. Early on in Civil 3D, he came up with a concept of a Corridor Section Viewer. As the feature matured, editing capability was added. Recently, we have been reviewing this tool and are defining additional requirements for a future release. If you have specific functionality that you would like to see implemented in the “CSV”, please send me an email.
One topic that I would like to discuss is the concept of overrides when editing the corridor. When you build a corridor, you can use the CSV to modify the geometry at specific stations. There are 2 types of edits which can be done. The first is a “Geometric Edit”. In this case you are specifically manipulating the geometry via a graphical grip edit. The second type of edit is called a “Parameter” override. This type of edit involves changing one of the input parameters of the subassembly at a particular station. These edits can be propagated down the corridor using the CSV Toolbar. Once you have overrides on the corridor, you can clear the overrides via the Corridor properties and clearing the overrides on the following dialog.
The CSV is a very useful way of making design changes at at specific stations!
Dan
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Hello!
I want the ability to see / label cross-slopes directly in the "CSV". After a "Geometric Edit" or a "Parameter Override" the label should show the new resulting cross-slope.
cad.can
Posted 6/28/2007 1:19 AM by Sascha Langenstein
I second Viktor's request
Posted 6/28/2007 3:00 PM by Thomas Scheevel
Good one. That is on the list.
thanks,
Posted 7/6/2007 2:58 PM by Daniel Philbrick
I use the CSV frequently. I have a recurring issue when exiting the edit. The corridor becomes unselectable. Not always though. I haven't seen anything done differently that causes it or doesn't. When it happens though, I can hover over the corridor and it won't highlight. I can pick on it or do a crossing over an assembly or feature line and it will not select. I have found the only way to get it back is to do a save, and then a regen. A regen by itself doesn't help, and a regen followed by a save does nothing. It's only the save followed by the regen that does it. I've seen this on two different machines with XP and with Vista. Has anyone else experienced this?
Keith ksknifer@juno.com
Posted 3/11/2009 4:50 PM by Keith Knifer