• Control of min. road bed thickness

In 18.10 FP2 a new switch has been added to the road bed dialog. When this switch is activated the road pavement calculation checks to ensure that the minimum road pavement thickness is achieved across the whole cross section. So if a user makes a change to the road bed form which gives a road pavement thickness less than that defined the whole road bed will be moved down to ensure the minimum thickness. If a user wishes to specify a road bed without the control of the minimum thickness the switch should be deactivated. Below an example with the Switch active and deactivated.

Control of min. road bed thickness active.

Control of min. road bed thickness deactivated.

The switch can also be turned on/off in the Model – Settings dialog under the Element tab:

The default value is active. A warning is given if the road bed cuts an upper road pavement layer. It is recommended that the road model is built from the Model – Build menu. Apply in the road bed dialog will not update the model when the switch is changed.

• Draw road model - road model elements can now be drawn to DWG in 3D directly
• Draw road model - draw contours now also works for elevation below zero
• Draw cross sections - the DWG-file for title fields can now be in AutoCad 2010-format
• 3 new Excel-based reports for detailed information from road model (can be found under the international reports, only English language for the time being: 1. Road pavement: Superstructure for every used surface, whith thickness, area and volume per Superstructure layer in each station and total. 2. Cut volume separated per Soil-type, per station and total 3. 2D and 3D area, width and slope for all used surfaces per station)
• Fixed: Wire frame models complete for profiles above 10.000 meter
• Fixed: VR-viewer shows complete terrain again
• Fixed: Improvments to Finnish long profiles and drawing of horizontal alignments
• Fixed: Using a line as surface edge now works for 4-series surfaces