Components
Components are the things built along the line, drawn as they are on site: RCC U-drains with their cover slab and PCC bed, masonry and earthen drains, box and pipe culverts, retaining and breast walls, rails, sleepers, the ballast and the whole track, OHE masts, bridge decks with girders, piers on piles, crash barriers, kerbs, poles, fences and trees. Each has a section (with its materials – RCC, PCC, masonry, ballast … – and their textures) and a plan (lines along the alignment, sleepers or posts repeated, or a symbol).
Sizes are parameters (W, D, T …): type other values in the table to try them; every placement can give its own. Edit changes a component of the project or of my library; a built-in one is copied into the project and takes its place there. Save to my library keeps one for every project on this computer; Export and Import share them as .cxblocks files.
Two ways to use one: pick it in the Component column of a template element (Templates) – it is drawn at the end point of that element in every section the template makes, mirrored on the left – or place it on a range of sections (Place…). The materials can go into the bill of quantities (source Components).
Commands
CXBLOCKSComponents – drains, culverts, track, bridges…
The component library: RCC U-drains with cover slabs, masonry and earthen drains, box and pipe culverts, retaining walls, rails, sleepers, ballast and the whole track, OHE masts, bridge decks, girders and piers, crash barriers, kerbs, poles and fences – drawn as built with their materials. Make your own with parameters (W, D, T …), keep them in your library, export and import them.
CXPLACEPlace components on the sections…
Put components on a range of sections and on the plan: at a named point of a layer (the toe, the shoulder) or at an offset, on one or both sides, moved out or up, with their own sizes – a drain at both toes, a culvert at a chainage, poles every 50 m.
CXTEMPLATETemplates and assemblies…
Template master: horizontal, vertical, gradient, slope and daylight elements; assemblies that write several layers (formation, blanket, subgrade) in one go.
CXBOQBill of quantities with rates…
The bill of quantities: schedule items with unit and rate, each quantity from the sections (cutting, filling of any area combination, turfing, benching, overhaul, spoil, borrow) or typed – amounts and total live, Excel BOQ with formulas.