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Civil Labels and Elements off by a factor of 10

William Vierling — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:47:10 GMT

Hey community,

I've been having a recurring problem when generating sheets and placing annotations using the Openroads workflow. I am using the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) workspace. I create a sheet container file from scratch using the IDOTeng.dgn seed, and bring in some references before cutting sheets. For reasons I don't understand, certain civil tools create items and annotations that are off by a factor of 10 given the annotation scale. For instance, in the picture below, the centerline alignment annotation comes in at the proper sizing for the 1" = 20' scale, but the civil labels generated by the civil labeler come in exactly 10 times too big. However, the arrowheads on the leaders extending from those labels are the correct size.

Sometimes, the tick marks for the alignment annotation come in at the right size, and the text 10 times too big. With other drawings, the text comes in 10 times too small. When I change the annotation scale, the text will always be off by a factor of 10.

At times the named boundary tool also cuts the named boundary length by a factor of 10. For example, for 20 scale plans the length should be 600', but it comes in as 60'. Changing manually to 600' makes the cut sheets look screwy.

This is maddening and requires me to scale all sorts of annotative items by 10 at random.

Our civil workspace is entirely within one directory on projectwise, and the IDOT standard dgnlibs can be copied to local folders in the project directory so they can be edited (but I don't want to do that yet).

I appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Will

Why are my dynamic cross section views blank?

William Vierling — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:26:05 GMT

Happy new year all,

I am working on an Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) project in OpenRoads Designer CE 2021 using their custom workspace. I have created a corridor using templates modified from IDOT's stock library, and have the corridor's end conditions referencing an active terrain model. This is the second time I have used OpenRoads, as opposed to PowerGEOPAK, to create corridor models and cross sections, and the first time all files, including the workspace configuration, are entirely on ProjectWise. I cannot for the the life of me get anything to show in my dynamic cross section viewer, and I have tried all of the following:

Deleting dynamic cross section views via the keyin command (multiple times)
Ensuring the 3D model is turned on as a reference in the dynamic cross section viewer
Ensuring all the layers of the 3D model are turned on
Ensuring there is, in fact, an active terrain model
Changing all the settings in the dynamic cross section viewer
Opening the dynamic cross section viewer using both the alignment method and the corridor method

In addition to this, I can cut cross section sheets and linework is created.

All I see in the dynamic cross section viewer is a blue diamond at the active profile elevation.

I am thoroughly stumped. I have followed the wiki article on this site with several solutions to this problem, and none of them have resulted in any change. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Will Vierling

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