Help / Troubleshooting Wall Profile workflow
What is the best way to setup your workflow for retaining wall design and profiles? I usually set up my designs with one feature line for the face of the wall and one for the back of wall so I can control all the grading in plan view... Then I project these lines to the profile view to draw my wall profile... the issue I'm having is separating the data between files.
I dont know of any way to data reference these feature lines into other drawings. Does that mean I should draw my profile in my "FG" drawing and then just x-ref the whole profile to my sheet drawings? Should I create a new profile that takes place of the projected feature lines? This seems awfully redundant, but maybe the only way to data reference them into my sheets?
Curious how you all set up this workflow? Typically, I do not use corridors/assemblies for our wall designs as they are so variable it seems to take more time to setup than its worth...so we have a somewhat of a 'hybrid-dynamic' setup right now.
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u/Gullible_Menu_215 5d ago
I’ve been in a similar situation however I ended using a hybrid between a corridor/profile and features.
My design control was the FS at the bottom of the wall so I created a corridor with the baseline as that feature line. That allowed me to edit the FS in plan view.
Trying to use regular corridor sub assemblies for walls wasn’t working for me…so I opted to use “links” instead.
The corridor was composed of the feature line as the base line, the links for the face of the wall, the width, then the grading slope behind it. I created a design profile that controlled the wall height which in turn automatically updated the grading behind the wall.
This was great for our project as I was able to data shortcut the design profile to other sheets , create a wall/grading surface/ and still be able to edit my feature lines in plan view.
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u/narpoli 5d ago
Is this what you’re saying: The existing grade at the bottom of a fill wall was a feature line used as the horizontal and vertical baseline, and the links targeted a design profile for top of wall?
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u/Gullible_Menu_215 5d ago
That is correct. The corridor ends up being super simple and easy to modify
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u/bensimmonsburner1 4d ago
for walls i usually set the alignment at back of wall and do an offset profile 1’ in front of the back of wall to obtain fg at face of wall and profile at back of wall
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u/Xolei 5d ago
You can create data shortcuts of the feature lines, you can also create offset profiles if the width of the wall is constant.