Has anyone had experience with getting a C3D corridor into GNSS Machine Control? I am specifically interested in the corridor conversion, NOT the TIN. I have successfully made and converted TIN files into Trimble and Topcon machine control formats for several years, but getting a truly intellegent corridor into a machine is a more difficult tast we have not mastered. We have contractor clients asking us for a true corridor model instead of just a surface as the corridor allows them to follow any point of the corridor assembly. The machine operator can put the corner of thier blade on say the edge of pavement (or the toe of slope, etc) and the machine will tell them that is what they are on and allow them to follow it. I have tried exporting a corridor our of C3D to a .rxl with Trimble Link. This seems to be the best option, but it forces you to export a file for each corridor baseline. Also, when the various .rxl files get into Trimble Business Center, Site Vision, or Terra Model, there are “holes” in the corridor where a transition ends or begins. Read More
