Templates Home

Scope of this section:

"Shareable" Project Templates

examples and explanations for a particular clever technique with broad applications (see the link bar to the left).

You can drag and drop templates from one library to another via the Tools>Template Library Organizer in the Template Designer form.

General Template Technology

Logic Branching: End-conditions

Note: for InRoads to process through a series of options, the end condition components must ultimate start from the same point.

Logic Branching: Display Rules and Child Components

Specific Trick or Treats

Feature Name Override:  for general design, having cut and fill lines with specific names (ClearZone_daylight, Cut2to1, Fill_Wall_2to1, ROW_max, etc.) is nice, but often, combining this dissonant names into a single feature (R_daylight) is useful.  Feature Name Override is in the Template Editor toolbar.

Branching: techniques for when the graphics and the logic seem to vary

• Backtracking to a common point
• Creating "phantom" pivot points at the geometric coincident point
• Backfilling between the last-common and the pivot using Parent components.

Components can go Vertical, but the surface itself still cannot (nor will it).