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Introduction
Eagle Point Menu
is an organizational tool as well as a product containing tools that are
used across Eagle Point products. It is used to help manage your
projects, specify the settings for your project, open Eagle Point
products and receive on-line Help for commands within the software.
The menus on the Eagle Point menu are explained in this section. For
more information on the Eagle Point menu, refer to the Getting
Started manual.Eagle Point Menu runs on AutoCAD, BricsCad, and
MicroStation and it also runs as a Stand Alone product.
File menu
The File menu allows you to manage your projects.
You can create new projects or sub-projects and open and delete
projects. Informational properties about the project, such as details,
history, manifest and client information are also provided to you.
Customization for printouts can also be found in this menu.
System menu
Units, formats, precision, CAD settings, and plot scales for the project
can be set using the System menu. All of this information can then be
created into a prototype to be used for subsequent projects.
You can set which Node (Field Code) Library will be used when
symbols are placed into the CAD graphic. If an external database is
desired for your survey points, it can also be set in the System menu.
Tools menu
The Tools menu contains commands that will increase your
productivity when working the CAD graphics. You can group
layers/levels together and then change their states all at one time.
There are several other commands, such as listing the layer/level of an
object, isolating a layer/level and setting a layer/level to be current.
Also, you can capture the current state of the CAD graphic file and
restore it to that state at a later time.
Products menu
You can access all of the Eagle Point products from the Products menu.
You can customize what products appear in the menu and specify in
which order they will appear.
Help menu
provides help on every command, along with on-line documentation.
The Help command also provides, if applicable, a picture of the dialog
box, definitions for each control on the dialog box, QuickSteps on how
to run the command and concepts about the command. The on-line
documentation is the complete documentation of all of the Eagle Point
products.
2. Surface Modeling
is a program designed to generate a topographic map. This map is generated from
the physical features of the original ground survey points and their respective
elevation and plan view feature lines for a proposed design. Flow lines for
ditches, building outlines, walls and edges of roads or water are a few examples
of these features.
To create a topographic map the conventional way, a ruler and calculator are used
to interpolate between points and feature lines to distinguish where the contour
lines for a specified contour interval would lie. Once these contour points are
established, contour lines are drawn to best represent the site plan.
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Miscellaneous feature lines, contour annotation and spot elevations are then placed in the CAD graphic.
Depending on the size of the project, work that would have taken days or weeks to do by hand can now be done
in minutes with Surface Modeling.
3. Roadcalc
isa computer software package with roadway design, earthwork computation
and drafting capabilities. It is an interactive tool providing speed, accuracy and
economy of roadway design.
The methods employed by Roadicalc for roadway design are derived from
conventional design. However, full advantage is taken of the speed, accuracy
and iterative capacity of the computer.
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Roadcalc offers you all the basic features:
Field data entry, reduction and viewing
Horizontal curve calculation
Vertical curve calculation
User-defined "intelligent" design typical sections called Dynamic Typical
Sections
Tabulation of earthwork volumes
Cross-section, plan and profile and mass diagram plotting
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Road calc offers these advanced features:
Alignments
Right-of-Way control to force slopes to tie inside of the Right-of-Way
Unlimited station equation adjustments
Multiple design alignments (100 per sub-project)
Super elevation by AASHTO or user-defined criteria
Transition spiral definition and combining spirals
Utility definition for display in cross-sections and profiles
Alignments
1. horizontal alignment
Prior to construction, it is normal practice for the Surveyor to prepare a detailed
center line survey.
This center line survey should normally consist of stakes located every 20 meters
on straights and every 10 to 20 meters along curves.
A mark is placed on each of these stakes defining the distance (up or down) to the
finished formation level of the road surface.
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The center line is normally described by means of a series of straight lines meeting at points of intersection.
Eventually, these straights will be joined by curves that will be set out during the detailed setting out.
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Example
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Example,
For R=500m and design speed= 80km/hr, emax,=8%,crown slope=4%
Da=1.15
R=500m
MSE=7%
percent of super elevation that is applied before the beginning of curve, SE, is assumed 66%
SR=0.556*V=0.556*80=45m
X=SR*C/e=(45*4)/8=23m
Y=2*X=2*23=46m
TR=X+SE*SR=23+66/100*46=53.4m
