This tutorial demonstrates how to validate that your alignment design meets criteria specified by a local agency.
To create an alignment using design criteria, you use the same basic workflow that you use to create an alignment without design criteria. During alignment creation, you can select a design criteria file, from which you can specify the superelevation attainment method and minimum radius and transition (spiral) length tables. Design criteria files that contain AASHTO design standards are included with AutoCAD Civil 3D. If your local design standards differ from the AASHTO standards, you can create a custom design criteria file using the Design Criteria Editor dialog box.
Some alignment design criteria is not available in table form in the design criteria file. For these criteria, you can define design checks to validate design standards. To apply a design check to an alignment, you must add it to a design check set.
If the design parameters for a sub-entity violate a design check or the minimum values established in the design criteria file, a warning symbol appears on the sub-entity in the drawing window, and next to the violated value in the Alignment Entities vista and Alignment Layout Parameters dialog box. When you hover the cursor over a warning symbol, a tooltip displays the standard that has been violated. The display of the warning symbol is controlled by the alignment style.
For more information, see Criteria-Based Alignment Design.
Topics in this section
- Exercise 1: Drawing an Alignment that Refers to Design Criteria
In this exercise, you will use the criteria-based design tools to create an alignment that complies with specified standards.
- Exercise 2: Viewing and Correcting Alignment Design Criteria Violations
In this exercise, you will examine alignment design criteria violations, and then learn how to correct a criteria violation.
- Exercise 3: Working with Design Checks
In this exercise, you will create an alignment design check, add the design check to a design check set, and then apply the design check set to an alignment.
- Exercise 4: Modifying a Design Criteria File
In this exercise, you will add a radius and speed table to the design criteria file.