Exporting Graphic Manipulator from Superelevation to DWG? Or making Graphic Manipulators actual annotations?

RE: Exporting Graphic Manipulator from Superelevation to DWG? Or making Graphic Manipulators actual annotations?

JeremieDL — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:21:43 GMT

see here for a workaround/answer: ORD - Annotate superelevation in plan? - OpenRoads | OpenSite Forum - OpenRoads | OpenSite - Bentley Communities

RE: Exporting Graphic Manipulator from Superelevation to DWG? Or making Graphic Manipulators actual annotations?

B vdO — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:52:06 GMT

I'll take another look and see if I can find something. Thank you for your help!

RE: Exporting Graphic Manipulator from Superelevation to DWG? Or making Graphic Manipulators actual annotations?

Steven Litzau — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 19:51:55 GMT

I think that is kind of at the heart of the issue here. I suspect they are stored as "properties" of the Superelevation Lane object and are rendered "on the fly" as manipulators. I have only poked around in the Text Favorites a little, but when I attempted to generate anything using the Superelevation Propeties, the software crashes.

RE: Exporting Graphic Manipulator from Superelevation to DWG? Or making Graphic Manipulators actual annotations?

B vdO — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 14:58:11 GMT

Do you have any idea where ORD saves those Graphic Manipulators (or the labels that it uses)?

We have a system in place to create the annotation in Civil3D, but are trying to figure out if it is possible to do it in ORD only since the process takes up some time.

RE: Exporting Graphic Manipulator from Superelevation to DWG? Or making Graphic Manipulators actual annotations?

Steven Litzau — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 14:28:39 GMT

I didn't want to presume C3D on the other end. If you are working with (or have access to) Civil 3D, it might be worth looking at an export > Import process for the transfer. I haven't explored this directly, but a little Excel wizardry in the middle you might be able to come up with, if not a seamless process, one that isn't quite manually labeling that content.

Steve

RE: Exporting Graphic Manipulator from Superelevation to DWG? Or making Graphic Manipulators actual annotations?

Jan Blaasse — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 14:23:26 GMT

As Steven suggested, it will be quicker to manually annotate them.

I'm involved in a project with mixed design software (both ORD and cilvil3d), and we (ORD) supply a list with the Superelevation changes for every alignment. The civil3d folks then import this list onto the civil3d alignment and use the civil3d annotation.

RE: Exporting Graphic Manipulator from Superelevation to DWG? Or making Graphic Manipulators actual annotations?

B vdO — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 14:19:09 GMT

Hi Steve,

That was kind of the answer that I was afraid of, these Slope Wedges are the closest thing to the Crossfall Checker in MX. I'll have another look at creating a custom label. Thanks for you help!

Kind regards,

RE: Exporting Graphic Manipulator from Superelevation to DWG? Or making Graphic Manipulators actual annotations?

Steven Litzau — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 14:09:05 GMT

I am not aware of a way to get these to export or annotate. If you are leveraging you superelevation into a corridor/terrain, you could potentially develop a label that you could place at these critical locations that would then export. If you aren't already doing a terrain, it might be quicker to just manually annotate them.

Steve