Proposed Cross-Section Help

Help on the criteria for creating proposed cross sections (the MHT files, formerly the WRI files) can be accessed from the following locations:

  1. Access through Project Manager
  2. Access directly from the Server

Access through Project Manager:

While "in" your proposed cross section "run", click on Shape Clusters and then click on the Typical button as shown below:

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The Typical button provides access to the Typical Sections dialog, (shown below). Select the Typical Section that you are interested in Help on, by clicking on one of the 6 Typical Sections. The example below illustrates accessing Help for the Undivided New Pavement (Unpavt) typical. When the Description button is pressed, the Proposed Cross Section help for that Typical Section is automatically launched in Internet Explorer.

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A fragment of the Help file (unpavt.wri, now unpavt.mht) for the Undivided New Pavement (Unpavt) typical is shown below:

NOTE: There are individual Help files for each Typical Section.

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Access directly from the Server:

Another method for accessing these Help files is directly from the following folders:

  • O:\V8i_Resource\X_30\GEOPAK\Typicals\English
  • O:\V8i_Resource\X_30\GEOPAK\Typicals\Metric

The individual Help files are indexed as follows:

Divided New Pavement DNPavt.mht
Existing Features ExFeat.mht
Rehabilitation Pavement Rehab.mht
Right of Way ROW.mht
Undivided New Pavement UnPavt.mht
Cross Section Labeling XS_Lab.mht

Simply double click on any of the MHT files (on the server) and Help for that Typical Section will be automatically launched in Internet Explorer.

A fragment of the Help file (unpavt.wri, now unpavt.mht) for the Undivided New Pavement (Unpavt) typical is shown below:

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