Chapter 9: Basic Corridors

Build a single-baseline corridor from an alignment, profile, and assembly. Corridors are created from the combination of alignments, profiles, and assemblies. Although corridors can be used to model many things, most corridors are used for road design.

Master It Open the Mastering Corridors.dwg file. Build a corridor on the basis of the Project Road alignment, the Project Road Finished Ground profile, and the Project Typical Road Assembly.

Solution

1. From the Home tab’s Create Design panel, select Corridors Create Simple Corridor.

2. Pick the Project Road alignment, the Project Road Finished Ground profile, and the Project Typical Road Assembly. Target the Existing Ground surface.

Use targets to add lane widening. ...

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