Trimble Business Center

It looks like you cannot copy or offset from a linestring that is part of a side slope. If you do the copied or offset line is connected to the side slope and the line will disappear when you update the side slope.

Outside of exploding the side slope, is there a way to copy or offset from a side slope linestring?

You can append the line you want and then offset accordingly. This adds a few extra steps though.

The sideslope lines are refreshed (cleaned out and recreated each time you update the sideslope, so starting another sideslope off a line from another sideslope while possible is risky unless you 100% know that it will never be changed - you can explode a Sideslope to get the lines and then use those- however those will not get updated if the sideslope source needs to be updated or modified -this is a catch 22 and likely something we still need to work out

Alan

I agree with you on the creating side slope from a side slope. I understand why this creates some issues but could see some value in doing so. Mostly for getting linestrings on different layers.

This is a different issue, you cannot copy or offset a linesting from a side slope and have it be independent of the side slope.