I've known for some time that there is an option to display a typical section from a template library and find it to be a real time-saver, as long as your template library accurately reflects the typical section.
However, I recently discovered that the same tool can be used from within a corridor inside the roadway designer. As a bonus, I found that my Parametric Constraints defining pavement layer thicknesses are reflected in the displayed template. This removes one of my biggest stumbling blocks to having "universal" template libraries that control thicknesses, slopes and widths via Parametric Constraints. And considering you can import and export parametric constraints, it suggests a spreadsheet based tool where you fill out a table of constrains with values and station ranges which are then exported in the import format for the Parametric Constraints dialog box.
Today, as I was working on my typical section sheets for a set of plans, merrily displaying my templates for each road, I discovered one flaw in the process.
While all of my templates use constraints for pavement thicknesses (including some zero thickness layers that use display rules to completely turn them off) some of my widths made more sense being controlled with point controls. I just discovered that only those template modifiers that are contained in a Parametric Constraint carry over into the display template tool.
This tool needs to have a toggle that allows you to preserve point control widths and slopes when displaying templates and it would be nice if it also allowed you to include existing ground in the output.
And if this is not in Ss3/4, it needs to be, with these enhancements, too.