Tutorial - Interactive Edit Ramp


The Interactive Edit option allows you to edit the ramps that were created through the Automatic Ramp option. All edits can be interactively performed using the mouse while in Plan view.

The dataset for this tutorial is in the InteractiveEditRamp.zip file. (click the link to download the dataset).

  1. Open Vulcan with the dataset form the Interactive Edit Ramp Line folder.
  2. Open ugdesign.dgd.isis and load the RAMP and ZONES layers
  3. Right-click on one of the points in the ZONES layer and select Label > Point sequence to display the Label Option panel, then select All Points and click OK to display the point labels.
  4. Select Underground > Development > Interactive Edit Ramp.
  5. Click on the first segment of the ramp between Point 1 and the first turn.
  6. Right-click to display the Interactive Ramp Edit menu and select Add Fixed Point.
  7. Click on the segment after the first turn.
  8. Change the indicate mode to Snap to Points mode by clicking on the Snap to Points icon on the Digitise toolbar, and click on Point 2.
  9. Right-click to display the Interactive Ramp Edit menu and select Add Fixed Point.
  10. Click on the segment after the second corkscrew turn, and click on Point 3.
  11. Change the indicate mode back to Indicate by clicking on the Indicate icon on the Digitise toolbar.
  12. Now move all three turns out until the ramp turns green, indicating that the maximum grade constraint is satisfied.

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