Import REB Files (.reb)
Import REB (Regeln zur Elektronischen Bauabrechnung (rules for electronic construction accounting)) files to use as road model data, including alignments and surfaces, and/or surface data. REB data is separated into different files for these types of data: horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, cross-sections, points/coordinates, surface triangles, and breaklines. To import a file, follow the instructions in Import Data.
Generally, this data comes as a set of three independent, but related roadway files. You can select one or more REB files to import at the same time, but each set of related files should be imported at the same time so they are co-related properly. Since different types of REB data are stored in separate files, if any data is dependent upon another type of data, both files must be imported at the same time. For example, you cannot add a vertical alignment file without concurrently adding the horizontal alignment file it is dependent upon.
Although REB files often use the .reb extension, they also use numeric extensions, such as: *.021, *.040, *.066, *.66, *. D21, *.D30, *.D40, *.D45, *.D49, *.D58, and *.D66. REB extensions indicate the type of data the files contain:
- .D21 and .021 - vertical alignment data
- .D30 - point/coordinate data (GAEB)
- .D40 and .040 - horizontal alignment data
- .D45 - point/coordinate data
- .D49 - breakline data (GAEB)
- .D58 - surface triangle data (GAEB)
- .D66 and .66 - cross-section data
Note: Cross-sections from REB data are converted into breaklines when they are imported.
Note: You can also import Wirth YXZ cross-section data in conjunction with an REB alignment file to create a road model.
Note: If you import or create stored cross-sections at stations that are beyond the extents of their associated alignment, the cross-sections are denoted by a triangle icon at the beginning of the alignment (the cross-sections themselves are not actually drawn). To select one of the stored cross-sections, ‘window’ around the icon in the Plan View and pick the cross-section in the Selection Explorer.
Note: REB is a data specification most-commonly used in Germany.
