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AutoCAD conversion from OpenRoads Designer - Profile View

Robert Politano — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:51:57 GMT

Hi,

I need to export an annotated profile from OpenRoads Designer to AutoCAD. The export was successful for linework and the grid text, however the annotation text and curve data text is not displaying correctly (shown as 0's in screenshot below). Is anyone aware of a solution to this issue?

AutoCAD export - 2016 version - 2013-2017 compatible

OpenRoads Designer

Thank you,

Robert

annotate surface

Erik — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:05:30 GMT

Why is there no surface annotation group?

crossfal in planview

Erik — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 19:43:36 GMT

I want to show crossfal/ slope annotation between two features in plan view.

How can i get this ?

When I use the superelavation, then you can see the slope dynamic.

Is the any way to annotate this 3d value in a 2d plan View ?

[ORD U7] Can non-template strings\surfaces by automatically annotated in ORD?

Liam Wilks — Wed, 01 May 2019 05:15:22 GMT

Hi All,

When creating X-sections through ORD, any points created from a template within the x-section area are annotated according to the rules in the annotation group. However, I have found that if I have any non-template (but still featurized) strings\surfaces within the X-section area they can not be automatically annotated.

Is this working as designed? Are we expected to annotate all non-template points manually? This is not ideal through areas that reqiure a lot of manual string modelling such as intersections.

Thanks

Liam

ORD u2 - Annotate points

Louis van Amerongen — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 19:41:15 GMT

Hi,

In Inroads / PowerCivil it was / is very easy to annotate Cogo or Coordination points. Now I try to do the same in Open Roads Designer update 2. Unfortunately without any reasonable result.

A practice example is that a client mails me a coordinate list (xls or txt file) with XYZ coordinates, a name and description. In Inroads I can import the list, see a nice overview with information in a table (I miss this), choose or edit a Style (in the Edit Style) in the View Horizontal Annotation and label the points.

In OpenRoads Designer I tried the Element Annotation in the Drawing Production Ribbon. I suspect a menu where I can choose and edit different Annotation Features or Styles, where I can switch between showing only the for example Name and the XY-Coordinates, the Name and Description.

Is this possible in ORD and if the answer is yes, where can I find some tutorials / examples. I searched this community without any result.

thanks in advance,

Louis

Why are my DXF files not shown (properly) in OpenRoads Designer?

Lara Tijsma — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:33:46 GMT

I have a 100+ .dxf (Drawing eXchange Format, from Autodesk) files that are traffic signs.

When I place them as cell in OpenRoads Designer, the visual does not appear at all or is only shown partly/in some views.

I have tried to change the .dxf file to another file type, but this does not work correctly, so I am currently working with .dwg or .dxf

When I import them like a file, they appear very far (on their own coordinates from the original dxf file, which is made by someone else and I don't want to change them all in the original files), and the file is made from different layers. Is there any way to "group" those layers so I can move the file as one object?

The other method I prefer is to place the object as an active cell. I can place .dwg and .dxf files. I also tried .obj, .fbx, .dgn, .pdf, but .dxf and .dwg still work the best.

BUT

1. I do not see the signs correctly. The point of getting these signs in my OpenRoads model is to display them in a movie and in 3D views to show how road users see those signs.

2. The signs are not in the right location and in the right position, so I need to rotate them. This can be done by changing the degrees in the properties, but I hope there is a better/easier way.

Who can help me?

Some pictures that explain (hopefully) a bit better what I mean

1. Imported as dxf, parts of text disappear when moving

2. Placed cells from dxf and dwg

3. The information is there, I see it also in another display style

4. Zoomed in on the object you can see the text (display style Smooth, the display style I want to use)

5. Rotating the cell is not intuitive and very time consuming

6. Zoomed in, there appear gaps in the sign and the visual problems become clear

Point control mode "Both" secondary alignment

Christiaan Post — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:56:20 GMT

Hi,

I have two alignments for two tracks and create a template with these two tracks and want to use the second alignment as a pointcontol with mode "Both" and use as a secondary alignment strange things happens see images.

I also tried to split this in two pointcontrols without a good result.

Thanks in advance

//Christiaan

How can i use the International Roughness Index with the verticale adjustment Profile in open roads designer

Erik — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:49:51 GMT

How can i use the International Roughness Index with the verticale adjustment Profile in open roads designer

ORD Annotation Labels Error

Josh Shen — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:12:06 GMT

I'm trying to create a 200' scale alignment label. I've set the text dimensions to 0.06 such that when the annotation scale is 1:200', the labels would be 12'. In one dgn, this worked and produced desirable results.

However, when I tried to replicate this, the labels turned out to be 17.8'. Same text style referenced, same text favorite, same work space.

Any ideas what went wrong here?

my corridor lights up, when creating a corridor. How can i fix this.?

Erik — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:49:56 GMT

OpenRoads Error Newer Civil Data Found

Carl Kepple — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:40:35 GMT

I the get the error below when I open a file in OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Version 10.03.00.43 after the file was worked on in OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Version 10.05.00.30.

How can this be fixed? Can I save it down to an earlier version?

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Wed, 23 Jan 2019 03:36:16 GMT

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Features Definitions symbologies not showing up

Erik — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:16:37 GMT