any ideas / ways to use it? the insert point might be handy but struggling to think of real uses for it
Yes, in fact - I have a very specific application in mind.
I'm not particularly a fan of how much work is currently needed to 'grade' a site, particularly subdivisions in my case.
While I do need Alignments, Profiles, and Profile Views for plans production, I do not technically need Corridors, or Grading objects, for anything more than culling rim / grate elevations for sanitary / drainage structures, and daylight line - they're just currently what I'm relegated to using to obtain the information what I need - or so I thought.
I've long been using Feature Lines for rear lot lines, creating a Surface from stepped offset, and then use MINIMUMDISTBETWEENSURFACES to extract the intersection (aka daylight), and subsequently delete the working Surface. For this reason, I recently started _not_ producing Corridors for R/W to R/W, and instead pull Feature Lines from Alignment / Profile, trimmed that, joined it to this, and did stepped offsets from that to design a Surface from which to cull - but even that took some time to model, and I still need to label it for plans production.
Being that modeling Corridors, Gradings, and ultimately Surfaces takes longer than I'd like, I started to explore other ways of 'grading' my site for plans production, and I circled back to Expressions + Alignment Station Offset Labels.
While cumbersome to setup, once in place, grading the site (for plans) now takes a fraction of the time as compared to any of the aforementioned combinations, in terms of plan production, as one only needs an Alignment, and Profile; the Expressions + Labels do the rest.
At some point, I still need a Surface though, and I realized there's no in-built way of converting Station Offset Labels with Profile reference text to any usable format for building a Surface (which is ridiculous, IMO).
It's at this point, that I came up with
CONVERTALIGNLABELSTOCOGO as discussed in
this thread, and now I plan on adding the ability to directly create Feature Lines in kind.
Cheers