I'm just looking for some feedback concerning the "recommended" approach to merging the "Top Surface" data of multiple corridors/linear templates/civil cells together. One caveat, we absolutely need NAMEDbreaklines contained in the surface at the end of this consistent with the Feature Name of the elements in the OpenRoads Civil Model, no exceptions. We have enjoyed some success with simple models just exporting our OpenRoads models to ICM and importing into Trimble Business Center. After import into BC-HCE you get a corridor model 'sliced' to the 'top surface' and this surface has named breaklines, all is well. But, this doesn't work so well when you have areas with linear templates and civil cells contributing to the overall corridor model. You end up with lot's of corridors all slicing different surfaces when they should all be part of the same corridor. Makes for a lot of unnecessary clean up work prior to pushing files to machines and collectors.
We've also tried exporting Terrain models (*.xml) instead. We have success creating terrain models and *.xml files from Graphical Filters that retain the breakline names (choose "Link to Terrain Feature" flag) but for some reason we are getting multiple copies (tripled) of features for each corridor feature that has the "Generate Template Geometry" option set (mostly in the backbone of the template). We can efficiently produce terrain models that contain all the corridors/linear templates/civil cells that we want, but we can't send data to the field with so many redundant unnecessary features in the files.
Any ideas how to consolidate related corridors/linear templates/civil cells for clean export to machines and collectors is much appreciated.
Thanks