Exporting Alignment to Google Earth - Station Annotation Omitted

When exporting a Horizontal Alignment to Google Earth (KMZ/KML) via OpenRoads Designer, the stationing annotation (text only) does not convert and is not available in the Levels list within Google Earth. The station ticks, curve data, and cardinal points translate successfully. 

I have only had success with getting the station labels to translate if I drop the annotation twice (once to Text Nodes, then again to Text). This is not a desirable workflow as we often use KMZ/KML files as a means of transferring project data between subconsultants and with our clients. 

I have replicated this issue with the delivered WorkSpace, Training - Imperial as well.

Are there any settings I'm missing to make this translation work, or is this a bug?

 

  • Is there any information on this issue? Still encountering in 10.08.01.33

    Eddie Giese, PE
    Production Manager | Senior Roadway Engineer
    Licensed in FL & PA
    ACEC FDOTConnect Instructor on behalf of FDOT

    Patel, Greene & Associates, LLC
    PowerGEOPAK V8i SS10 (08.11.09.918)
    OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2 (10.10.21.4)
    OpenRoads Designer 2020 R3 (10.9.0.91)
    ProjectWise Explorer CE 10.0.3.453
    LumenRT CE Update 14 (16.14.60.98)

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  • This problem continues to persist in 10.09.

    Is there a solution or easy workaround that doesn't require us to drop the intelligence of the annotations? 

    Eddie Giese, PE
    Production Manager | Senior Roadway Engineer
    Licensed in FL & PA
    ACEC FDOTConnect Instructor on behalf of FDOT

    Patel, Greene & Associates, LLC
    PowerGEOPAK V8i SS10 (08.11.09.918)
    OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2 (10.10.21.4)
    OpenRoads Designer 2020 R3 (10.9.0.91)
    ProjectWise Explorer CE 10.0.3.453
    LumenRT CE Update 14 (16.14.60.98)

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  • Unfortunately, I had no trouble exporting an alignment with stationing text from ORD 10.08.01.33 or 10.10.01.03. I tried both my DOT's and the Training - Imperial workspace, and both worked fine. I tried modifying the font of the stationing text to something goofy, and still - no problems. I tried Google Earth 7.1.8.3036 and 7.3.4.8248 (installed on separate machines) and the stationing text appeared fine in both.

    UPDATE: I can get the stationing text to disappear from the KMZ if I change the annotation scale, then export to KMZ again. The stationing will reappear in the KMZ if I Remove Element Annotations, then annotate it again. Oddly, this behavior only seems to occur when the annotations are live in the active DGN. If the annotations are in a referenced DGN, I can export to KMZ at varying annotation scales all day without issue.

    Is your stationing annotation saved in the DGN that you're exporting from? If so, what happens if you reference that DGN into a blank DGN and export from there?