Roads

New features

Support for 12da files

As part of the workflow for defining a GENIO road, you can now use the Trimble Access Roads software to extract models from a .12da file and add them to a new GENIO .mos file. You can then use the new GENIO file to define the GENIO road definition. This feature is particularly useful if you are not able to export GENIO files from the 12d Model software.

For more information, see the topic To extract models from a 12da file in the Trimble Access Help.

Enhancements

Defining a Trimble road from the map

You can now define a Trimble road from the map. Make sure nothing is selected in the map and then tap the Define softkey to define a new Trimble road.

Defining a GENIO road from the map

You can now define a GENIO road from the map. To do this you must have a master string from a GENIO file selected in the map. To do this, tap in the map toolbar and then tap the GENIO layer twice to make it visible and selectable in the map. From the map, select the master string so that it is colored blue and then tap the Define softkey to define a new GENIO road.

Editing strings in GENIO road files

When creating a road by selecting strings from a GENIO file, you can now rename the string. Although string names in GENIO files are limited to four characters, this limitation does not apply when you rename it in Trimble Access. For 3D and 5D strings you can now also change the string type.

Cut/fill display in the map during road and DTM stakeout

To clarify the behavior when staking a road, the map no longer displays cut/fill values to the road surface. Cut/fill are only displayed in the map when staking using a DTM with the cut/fill values relative to the DTM. The road cut/fill values can be seen in the road stakeout screen. Previously the cut/fill value to the road surface was also shown, which could be confusing especially when a vertical offset was specified for a DTM surface.

Resolved issues

  • Improved behavior when orbiting a road: The road no longer occasionally disappears when rotating the road.
  • Discarded edits to a road being saved: We have fixed an issue where if you made edits to a Trimble road and then discarded them before saving, the discarded edits were incorrectly saved. This issue only affected roads that were selected from the map, not via the menu.
  • Navigating when staking a skew offset: The cross section view is no longer available when you are navigating to a point more than 3m away when staking a skew offset. In Trimble Access version 2018.00 we inadvertently made the cross section view available but because the target is nearly always not at the station being staked the information shown was incorrect.
  • Station or string selection when reviewing a road: We have fixed an issue when reviewing a road where you could not select a station or string for another road using the softkeys. This issue was introduced in Trimble Access version 2018.10.
  • New GENIO roads not automatically appearing in map: When you create a GENIO road, by default it is now always automatically shown and is selectable in the map.
  • Reviewing a GENIO road: We have fixed these issues that occurred when reviewing a 5D string:

    • A duplicate slope value that was displayed in the cross section view has been removed.

    • In certain situations the slope value for the opposite side of the road was displayed. This was an issue in the plan and cross section view when one side of the road was in cut and the other was in fill. The value is no longer displayed.

  • Application errors: We have fixed several issues that caused application errors when using or closing the software. In particular:

    • An application error no longer occurs when you review a GENIO file from the Define menu and you tap a station on a string to review. This was an issue only if you selected the Review option before selecting Edit or if the road was not already layered on in the map. This issue was introduced in Trimble Access version 2018.10.
    • An application error no longer occurs when you delete the start point and then another element in the vertical alignment of a Trimble road, or when editing the vertical geometry of an additional string in a Trimble road.
    • You will no longer see an occasional application error when you attempt to key in a nominal string value for a GENIO road at Review.