How to design ditches for P&P sheets | OpenRoads Tips

Demonstrating how to design ditches for Plan and Profile sheets

This video is a condensed version and this topic will be discussed further in a future video series.

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:30 Import Baseline geometry
2:35 5:15 Referencing terrain model
5:30 8:10 Creating our ditch hinge alignments
6:35 10:55 Setting existing terrain active for our ditch hinge alignments
7:40 12:10 Creating ditch template
12:35 What should you do if you have different slope criteria throughout?
13:45 Appling linear template on one ditch hinge alignment
14:40 Dynamic XS view
15:45 Adding point controls to ditch hinge in our linear template
19:05 Projecting Ditch FL to Baseline geometry
21:20 Basic concept when designing our ditches (horizontally and vertically)
23:05 Finding inlet elevation to tie into
28:20 Creating ditch profile
32:20 Creating ditch horizontal alignment
35:45 Projecting created ditch profile to ditch horizontal alignment
37:35 Demonstrating the benefits of this approach
38:45 Point control to ditch FL
40:00 Check slopes of designed ditch
42:00 End of Session