I am importing multiple text files into a survey file and modifying all the linking codes in this file. I started modifying one text file at a time and notice when I bring in another text file into the field book, then a lot of my previous work is disturbed or the new points try connecting to my already modified linking codes and messes everything up. I also tried just adding another field book, but then i am unable to connect lines that should continue between the two field books. Is there a way to add a data file to a field book without disturbing the current progress in the file? I'm working in Power GEOPAK V8i SS4.
caddcop
Is this something in your wheelhouse?
MaryB
Power GeoPak 08.11.09.918Power InRoads 08.11.09.918OpenRoads Designer 2021 R2
Coming from an InRoads perspective, we always had to use start codes if we wanted something to create a new figure. In GEOPAK i believe you could use a start code or not. Open Roads opened that world of alternative linking methods but we are sticking with the traditional InRoads approach so we don't have to do a lot of retraining and it is possible to bring many legacy surveys into Open Roads.
However, one feature of Open Roads that I have seen recommended is to use the setting that turns all figures into point lists after import. I don't recall the setting, but it is the second of the two link codes settings, I think. I seem to recall if a survey had a mixture of point lists and by link codes figures, when more data was brought in, it sometimes made new connections to old figures and I even seem to recall it screwing with figures that were not connecting to any new figures.
Truth be told, we may continue using native Survey tools vs Open Roads for a while, possibly until we move on to ORD.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
We are able to just convert whatever lines we want to point list features and that does help a lot. With linking codes the idea is that we save a lot of time with the tin or surface because it updates as you go. Our issue is exactly what you said. Whenever we bring in more information it creates all these new connections that we don't want. And sometimes messes up previous work we have made.
Here is more specifically what we want to do. These are two different text files in two different field books. Using linking codes we were wondering if we could somehow get these to connect.
Thanks!
if brought into a single fieldbook, they can link, if you keep them as two separate fieldbooks, then I don't believe you can link them. I'm not even sure that one survey fieldbook can "see" another's points.
Having the figures automatically convert to point lists still uses the initial link codes to make connections from point to point, but once a figure is a point list, the link codes are non-functional. But the figure editing by points are all available, so you can reorder points, add/delete points to/from figures, and much more.