I have a data that contains the Coordinates of Beginning of Project, Tangent to spiral, Spiral to curve, Curve to Spiral, Spiral to tangent, radius of curve, length of curve, length of clothoid and I want to create an alignment from this points by importing this data’s as a text. When I use the text import wizard, to import the horizontal alignment, it needs the coordinate of the Point of intersection (Pi). As a result, I could not import it since I do not have that data for the Pi. So I was wondering if there is any other method that I can use to import this data. Thank you
In the case you have coordinates only then you will never import them as elements. You can import theses coordinates and then create the alignment manually based on these points with different methods (Elementmethod or Regression). Once have created an alignment then BRT supports have a look at the reports which file format can be imported. There is a macro available AlignmentFromASCII.dll which supports the old InRoads format. If you don't have success please submitt your data.
Gunnar
Dear Gunnar, it was successful the ASCII import works. I will illustrate below what I have done.
First, I just opened a horizontal alignment of another project and then i generated an XML report for the horizontal alignment and found in the data collection tab a horizontal alignment ASCII format. Then I prepared a text file with similar format of the alignment that I wanted to import. Afterwards, in tools there is a Runmacro function, there I found Alignment from ASCII.dll file. After I loaded the .dll file; a window with a name of import Alignment from ASCII has appeared. There I browse the text file and clicked on import, then I got a perfect horizontal alignment. Thank you Gunnar, for the help