# Corridor.Baselines node fails while importing corridor having featureline as baseline

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730>\
**Category:** Civil 3D\
**Created:** [November 26, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730 "2020-11-26T13:45:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kaustubh\_93](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kaustubh_93/32/103615_2.png) [@Kaustubh\_93](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Kaustubh_93)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/1 "2020-11-26T13:45:05Z")

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The node Corridor.Baselines fail when importing baselines from the corridor having feature line as baseline. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/9/1/912e012f4bcd2fc9e3756c3eadfa4e3b60223883.png)  
what could be the possible solution to import such baseline?

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**Author:** ![bertrand.savarit](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/bertrand.savarit/32/103266_2.png) [@bertrand.savarit](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/bertrand.savarit)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/2 "2020-11-26T14:05:34Z")

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Hello,

Could you show us the error message and make a screenshot more large to see what is the input of your node here?

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**Author:** ![Kaustubh\_93](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kaustubh_93/32/103615_2.png) [@Kaustubh\_93](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Kaustubh_93)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/4 "2020-11-26T14:58:52Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/1/4/144927fd7fcad44f2338a252ed797a044618893d.png)  
I have used feature line as the baseline to create a part of the corridor.

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**Author:** ![Paolo\_Emilio\_Serra1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/paolo_emilio_serra1/32/12902_2.png) [@Paolo\_Emilio\_Serra1](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Paolo_Emilio_Serra1)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/5 "2020-11-26T17:43:54Z")

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Known limitation in Civil 3D API

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**Author:** ![Kaustubh\_93](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kaustubh_93/32/103615_2.png) [@Kaustubh\_93](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Kaustubh_93)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/6 "2020-11-27T04:16:30Z")

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ok. So, there is know other way I could extract the corridor feature lines for such corridors in dynamo?

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**Author:** ![KirkWM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kirkwm/32/104406_2.png) [@KirkWM](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/KirkWM)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/7 "2020-11-27T04:45:34Z")

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A workaround could be to use dynamo to create an alignment and profile from the feature line then switch the base line in program?

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**Author:** ![mzjensen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b77776/32.png) [@mzjensen](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/mzjensen)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/9 "2020-11-27T06:15:32Z")

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Or maybe extract them as dynamic corridor feature lines in model space and then use _Featureline.ByName_?

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**Author:** ![Kaustubh\_93](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kaustubh_93/32/103615_2.png) [@Kaustubh\_93](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Kaustubh_93)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/10 "2020-11-27T06:51:25Z")

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Thanks! this worked for me 🙂  
I used Featureline.ByObject instead.

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**Author:** ![Kaustubh\_93](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kaustubh_93/32/103615_2.png) [@Kaustubh\_93](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Kaustubh_93)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/11 "2020-11-27T07:26:50Z")

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I’ll give it a try. Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![genossealex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/97f17d/32.png) [@genossealex](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/genossealex)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/12 "2021-10-11T12:24:01Z")

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Hi.  
Can you explain that?  
I’m in the same situation and i dont’ know how to get featurelines from the objects (corridors)…  
Im really new in dynamo.

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**Author:** ![Kaustubh\_93](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kaustubh_93/32/103615_2.png) [@Kaustubh\_93](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Kaustubh_93)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/13 "2021-10-21T05:27:15Z")

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Hi,  
You can use the following Nodes under Civil3DToolkit package:

![Extract Featurelines1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/7/e/7e04d1b9e731b8cd5209e04c5a996115354af923.jpeg)  
 ![Extract Featurelines2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/1/2/127502d9022741243e1889574b890a6f668e6c32.jpeg)

or else you can also use this node from existing default nodes:

![Extract Featurelines3](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/b/2/b271ac690803788f3864e9a876ffa5b65fd5a5a5.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![genossealex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/97f17d/32.png) [@genossealex](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/genossealex)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/14 "2021-10-21T11:28:39Z")

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Hi.  
I know this nodes, but none of them works with featureline-based corridors…as far as i know.

And how have you used the featureline.byobject node?  
Or did you extract the featurelines by hand before?

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**Author:** ![kubastan89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19b73/32.png) [@kubastan89](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/kubastan89)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/corridor-baselines-node-fails-while-importing-corridor-having-featureline-as-baseline/57730/15 "2024-04-23T12:10:58Z")

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Hi. I have similiar problem. Even if I extract featureline by hand and use FeatureLine.GetFromObject I don`t know how to read start and end station of the extracted feature line and how to read feature line coordinate system. CorridorFeatureLine.CoordinateSystemByStation doesn`t accept selected feature line (even if it is Auto Corridor Feature Line).
