ryanm Posted July 22, 2002 Share Posted July 22, 2002 Does anyone know if there's a PIO or other thing for drawing roads in plan? We need something like a PIO that has a polyline alignment, and parameters for the width of road and width of right-of-way. The road edge & right-of-way polylines should draw themselves at 1/2 their parametric distance from the polyline alignment. The road edge ones join to each other at the ends to create a fillable polyline. 2 more parameters cover road edge class & right-of-way class. Is this even possible? Can a path PIO have a polyline as its path or does it have to be a polygon? We've tried cavity walls & they're just a disaster on switchbacks. We've also tried Landmark roads & they're just too finicky for the design stage. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted July 24, 2002 Share Posted July 24, 2002 The Road tools in Landmark have some of the functionality that you talk about. Frank Quote Link to comment
ryanm Posted July 24, 2002 Author Share Posted July 24, 2002 Agreed, but they're 3D-oriented & left-brained (create stakes, modify DTM, etc.) and not really worth the price of admission... I was hoping someone knew of a more 2D, fluid tool, similar to "Expand Stroke" in Freehand or Illustrator. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted August 5, 2002 Share Posted August 5, 2002 Why not use the offset tool on the polyline centerlines? This is not a tool that can be controlled by VS, but this tool works for a lot of smoothed curve figures. Alternatively, you can import figures from Adobe products with the Import EPSF, or import image command. Frank [ 08-05-2002: Message edited by: fbrault ] Quote Link to comment
Petri Sakkinen Posted August 11, 2002 Share Posted August 11, 2002 I am - slowly - working on a 'buffer' PIO (path object) for simllar purposes. If I ever find the time to figure out the idiosyncratic vector functions of VectorScript, it may find its way to VectorDepot's marketplace. Before it does, I need to know whether there is any commercial demand for add-ons - and that will take a year as they only send sales reports & payments once a year. (I have a modest thingy there as a test and no intention to waste my time to do something that does not pay.) Quote Link to comment
David J. Clinton Posted August 12, 2002 Share Posted August 12, 2002 Try the routine posted by me under Techboard Landsmark section- offsetting centerlines. I draw the same kind of plans. The routine is not perfect but gets the job done. Dave C. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 To answer one of you original questions...yes, a path plug-in object has a 2D Polyline as its path (not a polygon). Quote Link to comment
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