Several people have been asking, "How do I get the centerline symbol (or baseline, etc.) to plot using the GEOPAK Labeler in FDOT2010?" With the introduction of the FDOT true type fonts, this is a bit trickier. The old fonts used characters in the font to represent the commonly used symbols. These are not the same with the true type fonts. Listed below is a chart of the commonly used symbols supported. Character Symbol Key-in List When using...

2012 Florida Local Users’ Group (FLUG) Spring Training Event Cape Canaveral, Florida June 6 - 8, 2012 http://www.flugsite.com/ Registration is now open! This three day training event is packed with four full Session tracts along with four full Workshop tracts to choose from. Check out the agenda at: FLUG Agenda page at: http://www.flugsite.com/Agenda.pdf The FLUG will once again be held at the Radisson in Cape Canaveral. You can find the cost...

Design Training Expo 2012 “Innovative Solutions for Tomorrow’s Transportation Needs” Orlando, Florida June 12-14, 2012 The Office of Design is pleased to announce the 2012 Design Training Expo , at the Coronado Springs Hotel in Orlando on June 12-14, 2012 . This will be a comprehensive training event with a target audience of DOT and consultant staff involved in designing projects for the FDOT Work Program. Registration will be open...

Reference file pathing in MicroStation has always been a mistery. Most of you that know our software are aware that FDOT controls the search path of MicroStation, confining the search to the project directory using a folder called _Meta_Info and a DLL called FdotConfig. This restricts the design file search path to the Project directory. Well as Data increases it seems that more and more folders and files are being placed in a project folder that...

The curb and gutter compute items in the Design & Computation Manager, D&C, have been set up to deduct from the total length of curb when inlets are encountered. It does this by searching for the origin point of the cell within a set distance from the face of curb line. By default this distance is set to 0.5’. The origin point of the inlet cells is located on the edge of pavement (EOP). The distance between these two lines is 1.5’...

The urban ditch criteria has been updated to include the ability to control the ditch through a profile. This profile is tagged on to the back of sidewalk (BSW) line using the added adhoc, UD Profile. The cross section point controlled by the profile is the inside bottom of the ditch. It is important to note that this profile needs to be stationed to match the stationing of the baseline. As part of the modifications, the back of sidewalk is now being...

Greetings, The Engineering / CADD Systems Office released a Maintenance Release update to the FDOT2010 CADD Software Suite for MicroStation V8i. The release (Maintenance Release 2 - version 2010.02.00) is a cumulative update from our original release of FDOT2010 of March of 2011. This Maintenance Release is intended to support changes to FDOT procedural documents, such as the Plans Preparation Manual, Basis of Estimates and Design Standards. You can...

Florida Department of Transportation's Engineering CADD Systems Office is pleased to present FDOT Microstation Essentials Part 1, an upcoming series of webinars that breaks down FDOT's Microstation Essentials Part 1 training course into individual chapters. This course will be presented by ECSO via GoToWebinar and is completely free for all who wish to attend. Each webinar will be one hour long and present one or two chapters of the course...

Have you noticed a dramatic increase in the amount of time it takes to print some plan sets using Print Organizer in V8i? If so we have discovered the cause and can offer a possible resolution this issue. The reason you see this slow down is caused by a combination of the following: · Many cross sections in one file · Many references · A large number of levels in the workspace · Pen table usage of levels To explain this...

The most popular question asked during the Engineering/CADD Systems Office's webinar is "Will you be recording this webinar?" and "Where can I find previously recorded webinars?" The answer is simple -- on our "Quick Clips" page: http://www.dot.state.fl.us/ecso/downloads/clips/default.shtm Our Quick Clips page is not necessarily organized chronologically, but rather topically. You may have some difficulty locating...

Problems Creating a Project PDF Question: I’m trying to create my Project.PDF in Electronic Delivery Indexer (EDI2), and it successfully creates the Project.PS, but gives me an error and doesn’t create the Project.PDF. The error says “Error opening file/folder. File/folder doesn’t exist.” What do I do? Answer: This issue is caused by multiple versions of GhostScript existing on the server in the \fdot2010\APPS\UTL\GS...

FDOT2010 Informational Short Guide What You Need to Get Started FDOT2010 is certified for Microstation V8i ( and ONLY Microstation V8i ) Priority Build 08.11.07.469. You must install: Microstation V8i (Select Series 2) 08.11.07.443 (download from Bentley) Microstation V8i Priority Build Update 08.11.07.469 ftp://pribuilds:micro.station@ftp.bentley.com/pribuilds/microstation/updates/081107469en/setup.zip GEOPAK V8i (Select Series 2) Please see this...

The FDOT2010 CADD Software Suite is officially certified for use with GEOPAK version 08.11.07.427. This means that FDOT2010 was developed and tested on this version. It does not mean that FDOT2010 will not function properly with later versions of GEOPAK, only that it has not underwent rigorous testing with these versions. Since the original release of FDOT2010, Bentley has released two “ Refreshes ” for GEOPAK, versions 08.11.07.494 and...