From what I can tell, plan and profile annotation groups are set in the base geometry file's feature symbology settings. My problem is, I have other exhibits that use the same alignment but I want to use a different annotation group for the plan and profile. Is there a way to use a different annotation group in an exhibit file when referencing in my base geometry file?
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As I was, I thought of a possible workaround.
In V7 and V8, we had some offices that used different RSC files for certain linestyles. In the workspace, you would identify the office/discipline and the CFG variables would redirect these RSC files to an alternate location. As long as the line style names were the same, it would display them correctly for each office. So, what if you had duplicate names in different DGNLIBS? When a person from one office used the tools, they would get one display and when someone from another uses the tools, they get a different display?
Also, if the only solution is a copied alignment, could an alignment be created that was ruled as parallel to the original with zero offset and then it would automatically update if the original was modified?
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
You do not need multiple copies of the profile - what I meant bu 'ProfA' and 'ProgfB' was two different drawings, but using the same active profile.
How do you show different annotation groups though? From my understanding this is set by the feature definition of the geometry. Also, this requires that all profiles have to be created in the master geometry file which I would prefer if some people were not allowed access to those files.
I add a Profile Named boundary, and when it comes to Sheet model , I select a Different Annotation group. The image below shows 2 different style from one profile (the one on the right does not fit on the page properly (red outline), due to me not knowing that group i.e. wrong sheet size) - the profiles are annotated in the corridor file, not the geometry file - which means you do not have to allow access to those files.
This changes the Grid annotation but not the actual annotation of the profile line (VC, VPI, VT, K, etc), which is what I am looking for. Is this correct?