Colored Surfacing

A symbolic representation of an area of carriageway to be surfaced with a colored surface can be easily drawn in three different ways:

1. Selecting points to denote the outline of the area — note that all normal polyline options are available during this, or
2. Selecting existing entities (e.g., road markings) as boundaries for the marking — normal CAD hatch restrictions apply to this, or
3. Selecting either side of a carriageway will draw a rectangular area of any specified length — a useful and easy way to draw areas of colored surfacing used approaching traffic calmed areas.

In all cases, the color used on the drawing to show the surfacing can be set using the ProductName%% settings or the set surfacing color item in the menu.

Any area of hatched road marking created by the automatic hatching routines can be filled with shading to represent colored road surfacing. This default action is preset in the program options, but the individually properties of the diagonal road markings allow the color to be toggled on or off.

Friction & Rippled Surfacing

These are two alternative surfacing items. They are a symbolic representation of an area to be surfaced with either high-friction surface or for the ripple warning materials respectively.

They are drawn by the first method above (drawing around the outline of the area) and then confirming the angle at which the hatch pattern should be drawn.

The representation of the area of surfacing is created on a separate layer from the colored surfaces and also has separate settings for the pattern and layers used.