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
I too am looking for the ORD version of COGO.
Hi Rose,
I think the answer of you're question will be that in ORD Points are the replacement of Cogo points. I also think that we both hope that the possibilities of the Points will be the same as Cogo points in ORD in the near future.
In first instance am I trying to Annotate this points on a way that is comparable with Inroads / PowerCivil.
Regards Louis
Has anyone had any success at annotating points in ORD? For COGO Points there has to be the traditional ability to annotate the Name / N / E / Elev / Description at least. How is this done? The Text Favs don't seem to have the capability to do this with ORD Points. Am "I" missing something ... or is ORD missing something? Is it possible to somehow use the Survey Annotation capability? I haven't been able to get that to work, but that's the annotation functionality that I'm after. Bare minimum I need to be able to annotate the Name of COGO Point ...but can't get it to work.
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I have made it work. You create a point annotation group with no specific favorite and it fills in the name. Than, you assign that as annotation to any Point Feature Symbology. Finally, you can annotate by model or element.
i am relaying this from memory but it was within the last few weeks I figured this out. If I see I’m missing steps or mixing something up, I’ll try to update this post.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
Chuck, thank you!! That worked, but that's not very intuitive. I don't understand why the Text Favorites don't have annotation categories like the Name, Description and so on for the Points like they do for the Linear elements. It's almost as if the stand alone Point elements weren't considered in the Text Favorites. I guess my next step will be figuring out how to include the Description in my Annotation Group.