An issue that I have found with culvert cross sections is the scaling. With SS10, we didn't have to worry about what scale the sheets would be until we cut the sheets. The only thing with the cross section that made any difference was the annotations (text size). In Openroads Designer, we have to select the scale (drawing seed) when we create the named boundary as well as when we create the drawing models and sheets. This is an issue if we don't know what scale we are going to use right away. If we choose the wrong one when we create the named boundary, then we have to recreate the named boundary, along with the drawing and sheet. I've tried making 5 scale sheets on named boundaries that were created in 10 scale, and it didn't work. There's no way I have found to change the scale of the named boundary once it has been created. We have to manually recreate every named boundary to change the scale. Much of this is probably by design, and is something we'll have to get used to. I think if we could put in an enhancement request to make this process easier, the issue would be solved if we could modify the scale (drawing seed) of an existing named boundary or group of named boundaries.
Civil Product Used | OpenSite Designer, OpenRoads Designer, OpenRail Designer |
Knowing that we are 'currently' not able to adjust named boundaries for cross sections (height, width, location), to be able to at least select a cross section set definition to change the scale seed would be helpful. Especially if the named boundary section/set has the option to be copied when changing the scale seed.
We often have to create two sets of named boundary definitions, one for our geotechnical engineers to evaluate for designs plotted at a vertical exaggeration of 1 (typ 10:10), then another set for creation of our drawing sheets with the normal vertical exaggeration defined (typ 20:10, 50:10, or 100:10).