I see that OpenRoads has the Export Geometry feature and have viewed the video demonstrating the feature itself. Pardon my ignorance on the subject, but is the purpose of this feature to import the exported file for surveying purposes? All I want to do if stakeout a particular feature?
Exporting the file was easy enough, but I cannot get my data collector to accept either the IFC or the LandXML file (ver 2.0). Was it supposed to? Topcon Magnet lists both as accepted file types.
Is the export geometry feature only for alignments? Or can it be used to other feature definitions with associated active vertical geometries?
Is there a certain LandXML version I should be using?
Thank you in advance!
Export Geometry is for Linear Elements with or without vertical geometry those can be Alignments or just linework. I would check with by trying other versions of LandXML to see if they can be recognized by your data collector.
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I believe they may need a name for a successful export. Some of the Reports can also create something that can be used for upload to a data collector. And they can be customized, although that is not a trivial skill.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
Chuck,
When you say a name, are you meaning a feature name for the particular alignment? The exported landxml file was a successful export based on the fact the file itself had tons of "content".... Just can't get Magnet to accept it (the 2.0 version). I'm gonna try the other versions as Beebe suggested. Yeah.. I haven't had much success with the reports for surveying purposes.
You can use a lot of tools on MicroStation Elements or you can create actual Civil Geometry. We found some tools were more stable if used with Civil Geometry. There is a Feature Name as well as a Feature Definition. Some elements can be un-named but certain tools only work if the element is named.
Many reports have a help page that tries to explain what is needed for the report to contain data. The reports read an XML file (not a LandXML file) and use a style sheet to reformat/transform them into ASCII or HTML. Some reports work only with very specific data, but there are a lot of reports that report on Geometry that are not in the Geometry folder. And as I said, customizations are possible. Finding a report that is close to what you need is one way to start dabbling in customizations. The language is officially XSLT but in many instances, topics on it are only a chapter or two in a much larger book an XML. I found many of my books in book clearance piles for a fraction of their original costs.