We have received a request as from Position Partners to have an option to apply super elevations within Corridor design. This request was made as part of the MAGNET v7.3 Beta Test program. Please see Tester comment below.
"Would be great once we can apply super elevations within Corridor (as what we have in Road Design) so that you don't have to create a Road Design > save the new Road strings to Survey and then select these strings from Corridor to set as Reference Strings. Also would be great to expand the Vertical Profile Editor to allow Speed, Sight Distance etc. to be applied. All roads are not straight and they do have curves therefore curves require superelevation transitioning between the straights and into the curves. Corridor Design does not have that feature to “create superelevation” for curves within a design. You would have to do this manually and why would you when the standard road design has that in it.. like the screen shot example below that uses the Road Library files (Sight Distance; Friction Factor; Mini Curve Radius and Speed)…
Therefore currently – as I stated, if your road design has curves within it, you have to complete the design using the standard road design. Then transfer the road strings to survey view to allow you to pick the reference design road strings by window and apply them in Corridor.
Therefore – the this is the question… is Corridor Design in Magnet Office not for designing roads that have transition curves (spiral or circular) but just for say haul roads for forestry or something very basic that does not require anything applied such as superelevation.?
If so, we won’t be promoting it as it does not fulfill our Roading requirements."
Hi Barkley, the beta team wanted to know why we should include Create Super etc in Corridor Design and as I explained, that as it is currently, if a design did not have super's (just a standard crossfall) then Corridor would be fine. But 95% of the time any roading design will include superelevated curves (based on the Design Speed for the Project). Also the Profile Design may include Safe Stopping and SIght Distance criteria which isn't in the Corridor Profile editor. So all in all, until these are included in Corridor, almost all of the Australian and NZ civil designers will be sticking with Std Road Design. I was just speaking to Duncan Priestly (a long time Civilcad / Magnet users) and he uses Std Road Design > String Design all the time. And he said he was talking to a guy that has Civil3D and for their road designing, they use Magnet Office Road Design as it is fast, exactly what they want to get the design requirements quickly to the clients.