Roads

New features and enhancements

Stakeout reporting now displays material thickness

When staking a road or alignment relative to a digital terrain model (DTM), you can now choose to display the cut/fill value relative to the design as well as relative to the DTM. Previously, you could only display the cut/fill value relative to the design or the DTM.

This new feature is particularly useful for checking the material thickness when constructing a road. To check the thickness, define a DTM for the previous layer and then when staking out the current layer select Design + DTM in the Display cut/fill to field.

Side slope staking

In Trimble Access version 2017.10 you can now:

  • Add a side slope when staking a station on a string or measuring your position relative to a string.

    To access this new option, tap in the graphics area at the navigation screen and select Add side slope from the pop up menu.

    You can define the cut and fill side slope values, the cut ditch width (available when a cut slope has been defined) and if required, select a different hinge string from the current string.

  • When editing a side slope, you can add or edit the cut ditch width.

Adding a side slope is available only for a Trimble road.

Resolved issues

  • LandXML files with multiple profile alignments: An issue where a LandXML file had multiple profiles but the resulting road always used the last profile in the list is now resolved.
  • Missing survey method fields when using railroad terminology: An issue when surveying a road using the traditional menu selection option to activate the survey method, where the related fields for each survey method were missing is now resolved. This was an issue only when the Use railroad terminology option was selected in the Settings/Language screen. This issue was introduced in Trimble Access version 2016.03.
  • Application errors: You should no longer see occasional application errors when you do any of the following:
    • View in the 3D map a LandXML file containing a road defined only by a Start point.
    • Select a station on a 5D string where the selected position defines the transition from a cut side slope to a fill side slope (or vice versa).