Inroads SS2 - Roadway Designer Point Control Import and Export?

RE: Inroads SS2 - Roadway Designer Point Control Import and Export?

The Zen Dude — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:20:34 GMT

Sure, but those Style Constraints are really 'low level' Point Controls and have so many limitations besides the fact that they are so hidden from other users picking up that job later. Beyond that, you can't control Start and Stop Stations, or apply Offsets and are stuck creating your "controls" exactly where you need / want to use them. They obviously work, but have too many limitations for my tastes.

RE: Inroads SS2 - Roadway Designer Point Control Import and Export?

jpln — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:26:16 GMT

Isn't it possible to use a template with feature style constraints so that you don't have to assign point controls but just update the surface that contains the features to target ?

RE: Inroads SS2 - Roadway Designer Point Control Import and Export?

The Zen Dude — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:14:26 GMT

Colin, no, unfortunately Point Controls never had the export capability like Parametric Constraints currently have.

The only avenues that I can see that you have (neither of which do much for you) are 1) doing an XML report that catalogs the Point Controls that are used in the design Corridor, or maybe creating a custom XML report that might provide a more friendly format, or 2) just using the Copy From and copying the Corridor from one IRD to another. But that just means that you are handing off the 'latest and greatest' back and forth and will loose any changes that would occur if both people are working on their Corridor.

There used to be an older workflow for overlays (before the formal tools came out) where Point Controls would be set up in a Corridor and then the Templates would be swapped out, and the Point Controls would reassign themselves to the new Templates, but I don't think you want to be handing off a Corridor with Point Controls and then have to re-drop your Templates.

The only other thing that I haven't looked at, which might be beyond most folks, is to find those Point Controls in the IRD using an XML program. The IRD is an XML file and I'm sure the Point Controls have a specific format within the IRD. Those lines of code could be found, copied, and pasted into another IRD. But I've never tried it personally. ...iI might be worth a look. (I know I probably would if I were in your shoes trying to optimize your workflow.)