We are using a customized version of the SmartObjects VBA Project and it is working as expected for some features but not others. The tool cannot rotate cells upon initial import as the lines are not created until all the points are displayed. So the project requires a manual redraw of the survey fieldbook before the cells will rotate.
We are using it for two types of cells. The ones that work are pavement marking symbols, like turn arrows and word appliques (ONLY, LEFT, SCHOOL, etc.). The only caveat is that sometimes the direction of the nearby lines (road striping) results in the symbol being out by 180 degrees. The ones that are not working are our Guy Wire Anchor Cells. These are usually draw using a JPT code, unlike the road striping. Since that seems to be the only difference between the two, I wonder if the rotate code just cannot work on JPT lines. Of if the fact that the segment shares a coincident point with the cell is the problem.
I welcome any suggestions.
BYW, this is a sort of update to an older thread, but it is a newer version and more information. If anyone has managed to get a Guy Anchor cell to rotate, I would love to find out how.
Thank you very much for this. Did you ever find a use for the RotateLineList.txt file that comes with the SmartObjects.mvba macro? I'm about to start testing it now. Again, thank you.
While watching this thread, I'm so happy you can just open the dgn and rotate survey cells in the newer versions of ORD.
It is nice to be able to manually rotate cells. The purpose of the macro is to rotate all of the cells automatically after a large import of survey data from a data collector. It saves the time of doing this manually to as many as 100 cells depending on the amount of points collected by our survey team.
Since I've never used these macros, what is the process? Is it cumbersome? Is it done in the field?
I just surveyed a 2.4 mile urban stretch (no alignments given). It has about 20000 points and I'll be rotating approximately 100+ cells. I'll be done in an hour maybe 2 at the most. Is your total time to do how you do it less than that?
After the survey data is imported. You Redraw the graphics from the Survey workflow. It takes a second and its's done. It's worth it for us to not have to do this task manually.