Does ANYONE know how to set a the elevations of a collection of civil geometry points (COGO points??) to be that of a named terrain model in ORD Connect?! I see the question asked many times, with the answers all coming from "If you use the InRoads tool _____," or "Using GEOPAK tool _______" — but I am NOT using those products; I am using ORD 2019 R1 and am desperately trying to find out how to do this seemingly very simple task.
Alternately, I would appreciate it if someone would simply say "You can't do that in ORD/Connect" if that is indeed the case. Seems a simple enough task, though.
Thanks to all in advance.
Once I add elevations they appear in 3d for me. Then when I report them I don't get elevations reported unless I select the 3d points?
Regards,
Mark
OpenRoads Designer 2022 R3 (10.12) | Microstation 2023.1 | ProjectWise CE 3.4
How did you add the elevations - and why? All Ken needs is the elevations in a report (as far as I can see).
Tried that as well, but the report is staggered in rows, which makes me have to delete the rows I don't want to get columns of the elevations shown. I need to get the elevations from the "Analyze Elevation" report into the same as the points report (just columns that I can readily use in Excel.
I did find a solution, but not the one I wanted . . . I just dumped them out to Excel with their initial elevations, took them over into Carlson Civil and draped them there on each of the surfaces. Took about 5 minutes for all three surfaces. THAT's the kind of efficiency I want out of ORD/Connect, so I remain hopeful!
Thanks.
Nah, I had them as 3D points, tried them also as 2D, both independent of the terrain model geometry file and within it. I can't seem to hit upon the right combination. Surely someone, somewhere, knows how to drape points onto a surface?!?! Tough enough to drape elements by having to use the "Profile" tools, but OK, I can see it. But it forces you to make an alignment that way, when all we sometimes want to do is draw a 2D line, drape the ends on a surface and lower it 4 feet to use as a waterline. Simple stuff, really.
So I did hit on a solution, but not my preference . . . I just dumped the points out to Excel with their initial elevations and too it into Carlson Civil, imported the points into a coordinate file, set their elevations by surface model (three times, one for each surface, transferred to Carlson via LandXML), then report the coordinates out to Excel and voila! Took about five minutes total. That's the kind of ease of use I'm looking for with ORD/Connect, so I remain hopeful . . .
Thanks!
Ken
You can easily amend the report XSL file to get the following - I selected 5 points, and ran the report, and then just switched to a different report style.