Guide
Streets at their real width: continuous edges instead of centre lines
CAD ATLAS delivers streets as one continuous surface with clean edges, at the width the street really has. The surface stays closed at junctions, so there is nothing to clean up.
The trouble with centre lines
In map data a street is a line along its middle. Many sources pass that line on, or offset each segment to the left and right on its own. You can see the result on the left of the image: edges run through the junctions, segments overlap and nothing is closed. Turning that into a site plan means hours of trimming lines.
How CAD ATLAS builds the streets
- Our models know the width of each street, so every street comes out at its real width.
- Pavements are included where they are mapped.
- All segments are joined into one continuous street surface, including junctions, side streets and squares.
- The surface is closed, can be hatched and sits on its own layer.
