MDT allows one to create an alignment’s cross-sections using a series of components or elements that, along with the customized superelevation table and the assignment of materials for different roadbed layers, determine the cross-section template in. These components include:

Platforms

Ditches

Median elements

Cutting slopes

Fill slopes

Roadbeds

Safeguard ditches

Wall and structures

          By assigning these sections to an alignment’s different sections and margins, one can generate the terrain’s construction cross-sections. One can subsequently proceed to check, list, draw, calculate volumes, etc.

          A file with the .SCC extension that stores all the information needed to configure the project’s roads is generated throughout this process.

MDT distinguishes two types of templates for the platform type assigned:

·         Urban templates.

·         Road templates.

          The main difference between them is that in the road templates it is possible to define the central reservation (median) elements and two types of roadbed also exist, one for the left roadway and another for the right.

          It is possible to work with the template file or with the segment, in the latter case the segment must already be comprised of all the road elements including the template type.