Enhancements

Unlike with PRO designs, Siteworks now displays the corridor template surface in the 3D surface viewer and can generate and display design contour lines for the surface. However, the 3D View surface and the design contours are generated from a surface version of the corridor template surface, so the design’s tie slopes are included. As a result, when your location is over the design tie slopes, Siteworks won’t display design elevation data in the measure feature even though they are over the 3D surface or within the design contour area.

In the Stakeout feature, you can select a corridor alignment independent of the active surface/corridor. This enables you to stake a station and offset from any VCL alignment to the currently active surface, even if that surface is not associated with the selected alignment.

In the Stakeout Object screen, if you tap on the alignment for the active surface, a pop-up menu appears giving you the option to select the alignment or the active surface. This is to help PRO users transition to VCL data. With PRO data you select the alignment to stake the cross section data. With VCL data, you must select the corridor template surface to stake the cross section data.

In the Review & Edit Data COGO feature, if the active surface is a corridor template surface, you can use it to compute the volume between the measured surface and the template surface. It is important to note that the template’s design tie slopes are included in the volume computation. These tie slope surfaces are calculated in the Trimble Business Center software and depend on what surface was selected when defining the template. They may not be part of the original design and may extend outside the boundaries of the design’s footprint. Therefore, volume calculations may include calculated or extrapolated data instead of only design data. To see the extents of the template surface that is used to compute the volume calculation, select the Design contours option in the Map Options: Design tab. The red line drawn around the design surface indicates where the design tie slopes end.

When saving the current work order’s measured data as a new design, you can now merge the measured data with the corridor template surface. When merging the measured data with the template data, the design tie slope segments of the template surface are included in the merge. To see the full extent of the template surface that is included in the merge, select the Design contours option in the Map Options: Design tab. The red line around the design surface seen in the plan map view indicates the extent of the template surface, and what data is used when merging the template surface with the measured surface.