Hello everyone.
I'm learning OpenRoads for distribution within my agency and I am trying to reverse the stationing direction of a single horizontal geometry element.
I've found other topics and within the help that confirm using the Complex by Elements I can re-orient the stationing by the direction that the elements are joined and this has worked and I utilized as a "work-around" as noted below.
So here's my example:
I have a geometry line over an over-pass (north/south), through the on/off-ramp intersection and into a "T" intersection, which will have the legs partially rebuilt. The geometry of the overpass road ends in the middle of the "T" and then a geometry leg to each direction of the intersection, left and right. Stationing on this project goes from left to right, so coming off of the primary geometry end point and going to the right, the stationing works fine. But to go to the left from the same point - end of the primary geometry. This makes the stationing start at the intersection and go left, which is not what I need it to do, the stationing should be the other direction. It is just a 700' tangent so there is no complexity at all.
My work-around essentially split the line in two, and I made it a complex by elements in the other direction as the help suggested and it worked, to the point that there's technically an angle point in the middle of my line... It seems that having to do a segmented line and making it complex, or drawing a "construction" line, then drawing the final geometry back the other direction, adds work steps and time to a process that a button click should handle as well as the relationships of all the extra points and lines - I don't like extraneous line-work within my drawings.
Thank you for comments / suggestions.
Shannon M.
WSDOT
Agency OpenRoads Deployment
Most likely the element has a rule on it. If you remove the rule from the horizontal geometry element you could then rotate it 180 degrees.
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Hi. Thanks for the reply.
Upon first reading of it my thoughts are "that makes it CAD-like" without all of the rules / relationships and I was hoping for a button / command like 'Transpose'.
However, after letting it work through the brain during the day here I had a light-bulb moment. Removing the rules and rotating it would work, so why couldn't the rules just be re-assigned... So that partially worked, gave length and bearing and associated end & center point grabs. Why couldn't I grab the one end in the intersection and re-snap it to the end of the primary geometry line, which the thinking would be that it should re-associate to that point...
Low and behold, it did. set the stationing and it is at the proper end now and moving in the proper direction, so it looks like a few steps to go through but shouldn't be a problem for the designers.
Thanks again for the seed of thought to get where I was ultimately wanting to get to.
Shannon