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Applying roadside grading

Applying roadside grading - InfraWorks Tutorial

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Applying roadside grading

- Roadside grading is an extremely powerful feature that is extremely simple to use. Let's take a look at how you can use roadside grading to create a fixed slope solution for your roads. I've opened the Lynda road model and I've chosen a proposal called "Grading." I'll start off by making a copy of that, called "My_Grading." Next, I'll choose the Lynda Road bookmark to take a look at my road from a 3D perspective. I've kind of rolled back to a proposal that does not have the bridge, where we can see this rather tall embankment here in the area where there really should be a bridge. This is a great way to study the behavior of fixed slope grading, versus fixed width grading. If I click this road, and on the road asset card change my Edit Mode to Roadside Grading, we get a glimpse of what kind of grading method is being applied. Right now, we see the fixed width method. And this is the method that is used in the core InfraWorks tool. Whenever you create a road using that core tool you,…

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