Hello,
I am looking to see if any other users have had this issue. We received an outside party's alignment file that was working properly and suddenly one day, we noticed that anytime we clicked on an alignment, MicroStation would crash. We recreated the file from scratch (new dgn) and were able to use it successfully, but now we are having similar issues. Upon further investigation, we noticed that all our alignments have become a series of PIs (displayed in the Horizontal Geometry Reports). This was not the case when we initially recreated the file. I have COGO printouts from then showing that all the alignments were in order, with PCs and PTs. We have also noticed that the stationing at a specific point given by the Analyze Point tool for an alignment drawn in OpenRoads does not match the stationing at that point in COGO. Furthermore, the stationing from Auto Annotate in OpenRoads matches the gpk alignment, not the one drawn graphically in the file. In short, initially, the alignments in OpenRoads matched the gpk and now they do not. I think this is the source of all our crashes. Has anyone else experienced a similar issue? We have recreated the file a second time, this time with Auto Annotate and Auto Export turned off, but I am curious if we will have the same issue again in a few months.
Thank you,
Mona Lotfi
Yes, we have experienced this, except our "corrupt" files are not from a 3rd party, they are all created in house. Anyway, yes, files become corrupt and the rules on elements are lost, devolving into plain MicroStation elements.
Robert Garrett Senior Consultant
www.envisioncad.com
Thank you for the response, Robert! Have you been able to find a way to prevent this? We thought if we turn off auto annotate/auto export when creating our alignments, it could help. Time will tell.