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Exported Surface at Wrong Elevation

Nate Perius — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:17:40 GMT

I'm working in open roads with a terrain model provided by a client and everything seems fine.

But when I export the terrain model to either a geopak .tin or a LandXML the resulting surface is at a VASTLY different elevation.

The terrain model in my .dgn says a given contour is at 3,860 for example, but the exported surface says it has an elevation of -2,662,635.

Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

Feature Definitions not showing in template library

Nate Perius — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:08:45 GMT

I've been working in open roads for a while but this morning when I opened my template library I've been working in for months, all the lines/shapes displayed as white/gray while previously they displayed colored.

When I open component properties all the feature definitions I'm used to seeing are available in the feature definition drop down but for some reason none of them are displaying correctly.

I've had co-workers open the libraries and everything looks normal when they open them. So what configuration variable / preference setting / .xin file / other is not loading correctly on my end?

"Unable to cast object of type" error

Nate Perius — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 20:39:39 GMT

I built a corridor using open roads and everything initially built fine. But after adding a point control to make a point in my template follow a different alignment I get the following error message.

I'm not seeing any obvious error in how the model but this error message pops up (twice actually) every time I even open the point control tab in the corridor object menu.

Anyone have any ideas on what the error might be or how to fix it?

Thanks

Active Linestyle Scale

Nate Perius — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 19:27:11 GMT

I'm in a drawing that has the "Line Style Scale" set to "Global Line Style scale" with a value of 1.000

And after typing "active linestylescale" into the Key In, it says my Active Linestyle Scale is 1.000

But when I offset a line using a custom line style, that has the scale set to 1 in the Line Style Parameter, or draw a line, the new line has a a line style scale of 1.5.

Annotation scale is turned off but is set to full size.

Is there another setting I need to check or is there another solution to get my lines to draw at the right scale?

Thanks

Missing feature definitions

Nate Perius — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:04:37 GMT

When my co-worker and I individually open the same template library or dgn, we have different lists of available feature definitions.

We've checked to make sure both our workspaces are loading the same list of dgnlib's (our MS_DNGLIBLIST variable are the same) and we've made sure our computers are both pathed to the same network drive where the dgnlib's are saved.

What else should we look at? Is there another location where feature definitions are loaded from?

Line type Scale in a reference

Nate Perius — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:49:46 GMT

I have a drawing that has all my existing pipes drawn in it. We use the same custom line style for all the pipes but adjust the line style scale so that the pipes display as their true width.

The annotation scale in this existing pipes drawing is 1"=50' and I've made sure that each pipe displays as their true width in this drawing with the annotation scale set.

When I reference this existing pipes drawing into another base map, which also has its annotation scale set to 1"=50', the pipes show significantly larger (over 4x their intended size) even though the reference scale is set to 1:1.

The reference was attached coincident - world. True scale, scale line styles by reference scale, and use active annotation scale are all checked on (and checking them on/off does nothing).

The model setting are: annotation scale 1:=50', propagate annotation scale is checked on and Line Style Scale is set to annotation scale.

What setting an I missing? Why are the pipes in my reference drawing still displaying incorrectly?

Removing key station

Nate Perius — Wed, 13 May 2020 23:54:02 GMT

In my corridor, I had a point control that I have since deleted.

The corridor however is still calculating a cross section at that station.

The station is NOT in the Key in station list.

Is there a way to stop my corridor from calculating a cross section at this station?

Cannot save Cross Section Preferences in Geopak

Cody Burnett — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:54:31 GMT

I am working on creating a set of cross sections, but I cannot save the preferences that I am entering. When I open the Preferences window from the Create Cross Sections window, the Save. Save As..., and Delete are grayed out, and clicking on Load does not do anything. This is also true for the preferences for Annotate Cross Sections and End Area Volume preferences.

I am new with using Geopak so its very possible that this is user error and I am not doing something correctly, but I feel that this is fairly straight forward. Can anyone provide some insight on this issue?

Drawing/Annotating Cross Sections

Nate Perius — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:43:44 GMT

Due to a client upgrading their software I have had to convert a corridor I created in SS2 corridor modeling to SS4.

Everything seems to be running fine in plan view but I'm running into a couple problems with regards to the cross sections.

1. When I draw the cross sections most of the x-sec cells have a base elevation of 0 (some even have it at -5) while my design is around 3150. Only about 20 out of my 160 sections have base elevations close to where my design/existing ground are. This isn't a huge issue but for formatting reasons it would be nice if I could get the cells have base elevations closer to where the design is.

2. When I go to annotate the proposed sections I get no options for things to annotate in the Points, Features or Segments. The Crossing Feature windows in the various tabs are all blank.

I'm new to SS4 so any suggestions on how to fix either issue would be greatly appreciated.

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Point Controls/Secondary Alignments

Nate Perius — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 21:20:47 GMT

I'm working with SS2, Geopack 08.11.07.615, Roadway designer to design an interchange.

I'm attempting to use point controls/secondary alignments to model two roads merging together. Specifically, I'm trying to get my approach road's edge of pavement to match horizontally and vertically my main road's edge of pavement.

In my approach road's corridor I whent to point controls, selected my approach road's edge of pavement point, and selected both for the mode. I used control type alignment, selected my mainline's horizontal and vertical alignment and checked the box for "use as secondary alignment". I then input the horizontal and vertical offsets to go from my mainline CL to mainline EOP (44' horizontally, -0.88' vertically for reference), as measured perpendicular to my mainline .

When I view my cross sections the vertical "secondary alignment" line is at the correct offset but the point I set to be controlled isn't following that line but instead is 88' (twice my horizontal offset from my point control criteria) away from it. So for example the "secondary alignment" line at one station is correctly displayed at an offset of 19' from my approach road CL. But the approach road edge of pavement point (the one the point control is set for) is at an offset of 107' (88' away from where it "should" be).

Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks

SS2 Plan Graphics into SS4 Open Roads

Nate Perius — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:04:50 GMT

I have created a corridor using SS2 Corridor Modeling utilizing plan graphics to control things like the offset of my pavement edges.

My client needs to export my SS2 .ird into SS4 Open roads in order to then export the model into their staking software.

But when they do the export from SS2 to SS4 the plan graphics apparently don't carry through. Resulting in missing Dependencies and sharp "jogs" in the SS4 model.

Is there a way to tell the SS4 model to follow the Plan Graphics I've created for my SS2 model?

Issues with cross sections from corridor DTM vs tin

Nate Perius — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 18:17:12 GMT

I'm working on a project that features a station equation and have created a corridor for it.

When I cut cross sections everything runs great up until the station equation.

After the equation my proposed cross sections cut from the DTM my corridor model creates are totally off. They don't follow my profile or tie to existing ground almost like its drawing the section from a station "x" on the x-sec cell for station "y".

I cut sections based on the proposed finished ground tin the corridor creates and that appears to be fine. So its just the DTM which isn't even matching with "itself"

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm running V8I (SS2) 08.11.07.615. And for client reasons I can only work in SS2.

Thanks

Roadway Designer not following target aliasing

Nate Perius — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 22:14:45 GMT

In my corridor I want one side to tie to existing ground and the other to tie to a proposed surface.

In my templates, I have my tie points set to "Project to Surface" and have typed in either "existing" or "proposed" for the value depending on what side they are on.

In Target Aliasing, for my "existing" target I have added my existing ground surface to the list of aliases and for my "proposed" target I have added my proposed surface. *Both targets only have the one alias in their respective lists.

But when it builds my corridor my tie points ONLY tie to my active surface.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm running V8i, SS2, 08.11.07.615

Thank you