Can someone make this awesome little program to work with Connect edition?

Suggestion: use sheets and you don’t need the macro

Suggestion: use sheets and you don’t need the macro

Hi Barry

Can you please make an video where you place an sheet at right coordinate system and right plot size/area and print pdf file, Then take the pdf file as an raster reference attachment, if it places itself on the same coordinates as you printed it I believe you.

//Tom

Hi Tom,

Tom said:

Can you please make an video where you place an sheet at right coordinate system and right plot size/area and print pdf file

I could, but why do you need to see a video when you can simply test it yourself, its really not difficult to place a sheet on top of a geospatially located model file? Let me know if you have any problems I can advise what I did.

Here is an example; you can see the survey file is at its original coordinates as there are no offset values, and the Sheet Model and Title block attachment have been moved & rotated into position at the required scale. The survey is also clipped by a non-printing element.

Tom said:

Then take the pdf file as an raster reference attachment, if it places itself on the same coordinates as you printed it I believe you.

Now you're moving the goalposts, at no point does the original post mention anything about geolocated PDF's. FWIW I don't use GCS or create geolocated PDF's, however, I see no reason why my above example wouldn't produce what you are looking for if a GCS was attached.

I don't compose drawings this way i.e. by scaling sheets (the negatives outweigh any perceivable positives); I dislike it as it requires having to insert my Title block tags cell AFTER the sheet is positioned not to mention scaling and rotating it as well. Also, the above example had a survey directly attached into the sheet model for speed as a demonstration. I also don't work that way; instead I would attach the survey into either a Composition Model file, or the design Model of this DGN, make a Saved view and attach the Saved View to the Sheet Model. In this situation I would need to reset the Saved View attachment's coordinates to 0,0 so that it would be in its correct geospatial location and only then move the Title Block attachment into position.