Category: Design Elements
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Quality Labeling and Where To Draw The Line
Summary: Quality labeling strikes a balance between clarity and efficiency, avoiding both neglect and excessive refinement that drains time and resources. Introduction All roadway projects for the Departments of Transportation look the same at first glance. Each project has the same looking title sheet with their plan sheets in the same organization as all the…
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Meet Liner Leopard: Ditch Lining Design Made Simple
Introducing a webapp alternative to a taxing, iterative workflow when designing ditches and their liners. Liner Leopard streamlines the process and helps designers make the right choices!
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An Attempt to Build a Retaining Wall Sheet
A Change of Pace The retaining wall sheets house a series of views, each with their own important information, for retaining walls on a plan set. In the olden days, that is, before OpenRoads Designer but after the printing press and Y2K, you would use Microstation to quickly piece together a retaining wall sheet. The…
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When Clipping Goes To Far
A Sticky Pair of Scissors Corridor clipping is weird and you should avoid it when possible. Welp, I can end our long conversation there but I’ll try to extend that idea a little. Corridor clipping does what it says it does. It takes a secondary corridor and clips it into a primary one. The visuals…
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Revisiting the Scope
Fog Ahead, Captain I’ve been thinking over how the typical proposal describes deliverables at each phase when the software used is PowerGeopak. The first phase will usually state that the horizontal and vertical alignments will be designed along with a geometric layout, preliminary drainage design (the meaning is usually vague), driveway profiles, typical sections, and…
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A Long Walk for a Short Driveway
A Workflow Concern I’ve only worked on one dense urban project in OpenRoads so far. I did, however, make an observation about the current way my DOT is requiring driveways to be designed. If Geopak’s driveway design was wishful guessing then OpenRoads’ driveway design is forensic science. I’ll attempt to explain that weird metaphor. Geopak…