Retaining Wall Placement

This command draws a retaining wall symbol in profile view and draws the excavation tie slopes from the base of the wall to the ground profile.

The program first prompts to select the retaining wall section symbol. To add custom symbols, create a wallXX.dwg in the Carlson SUP folder where XX is the wall number. For example, create a drawing wall3.dwg in the %appdata%\Carlson Software\Carlson2014\r18.2_x64\sup folder. This dwg should have one polyline drawn left to right to outline the wall section. The polyline should be open along the bottom. The wall1.dwg and wall2.dwg are examples of how to draw the wall section polyline.

After selecting the wall section, the program prompts for the tie slope and the base placement offset which is the offset from the base of the retaining wall to the bottom of the tie slope. Next there are prompts for the horizontal and vertical scales of the profiles which set the vertical exaggeration for the drawing. Then the program prompts for the insertion point for the base of the wall. Finally there is a prompt for selecting a ground polyline on the profile to intersect with the tie slopes.

Prompts

Tie slope ratio <1.000>: press Enter
Base placement offset <1.000>:
press Enter
Horizontal Scale <50>:
press Enter
Vertical Scale <50>:
press Enter
Pick insertion point:
pick a point
Select ground polyline (ENTER for None):
pick polyline
Total Wall Area: 12.00, Above Ground: 0.22, Below Ground: 11.78
Do another retaining wall [<Yes>/No]?
No

Pulldown Menu Location: Profiles > Profile Utilities
Keyboard Command: rwallsym
Prerequisite: None