Cul-de-sac profile tied to incoming road profile

[CADDork]

Hello all

 

I have searched everywhere and cannot find an answer.

 

Is there a way to have the bulb profile for a cul-de-sac be tied to the centerline line alignment for the road (Road A) coming into the cul-de-sac, such that if the Road A profile is raised or lowered, the profile for the cul-de-sac bulb is also raised and lowered?

My boss thinks that if the Road A centerline has an assembly with curb and gutter as a sub-assembly, that the cul-de-sac bulb profile can be tied to the top of curb elevation of the Road A sub-assembly and dynamically change when Road A is raise / lowered.

 

He does not want to manually use "Inquiry” to get the elevation of Road A and compute the top of curb for the cul-de-sac bulb.

 

Is this possible?

 

The colors help me see what I am talking about and asking

 

Thank you

[MillerMG]

I hate to put a post that I don't think is helpful but I figured I would put my two cents in to this post. There may be a way to link the proposed profile of the cul-de-sac to the main road centerline proposed profile. We usually just run a surface label - spot elevation to check what the tie in points are and run the proposed profile from there. There is a way to lock the elevations. Maybe one of the other guys/ladies can elaborate on this.

 

Regards,

Miller

[Organic]

As far as I am aware it isn't possible in Civil 3D.

 

This is possible (and useful) in 12d though [and presumably other software packages also].

[BlackBox]

The only way that I know to accomplish this, is to use SincPac's Dynamic Links functionality, specifically the DLPROFILES Command.

 

 

 

 

Cheers

[CADDork]

Thanks for the help and replies.

 

My boss saw something on Youtube (probably SincPac) and was apoplectic when discovering that this functionality was not part of $7,000 +/- C3D.

 

Thanks again