I'm sure there's probably a simple mistake, somewhere, but I've checked everything I can think to check and have come up empty-handed on this one. In short, I'm trying to annotate a couple new profile models, but instead of getting a profile grid with all of the points nicely labeled, I'm getting a tiny box at the beginning of the profile and the first ~10% of the profile length is having its points labeled (but those points and symbols are way up above the actual profile model).
I know the grid and profile annotations work, as they still work on the old profiles I had already cut for this project. I removed the automated annotations for the "Cl Construction301 - Profile 17 Views" model for reference, if you want to check that the annotation groups work. I've used a few different annotation groups to see if those were the issue, but I've been using the following two, primarily:
Profile grid annotation group: Profile>Drawing>Profile Grid (NE)
Profile linear annotation group: Profile>Linear>Stationing>CrossRoad-Pr
The two profiles I've been having trouble with are "Cl Side Path 1" and "Cl Side Path 2"; however, I only have the profile for side path 1 cut in the attached HAL file.
I've looked through the info and settings for the named boundaries, saved views, model references, etc. and the only possible hint I've found is in the "Cl Side Path 1 - PPR Test Profile Views" model within the 72736_HAL (testing).dgn file. If you open that model, you'll see the named boundary (in red) around the profile and existing grade lines. The weird thing is that if you "Activate" the reference for that model and use the "Analyze Point" tool on the alignment, the station numbers are only reading to 10% of the point I'd hover over the profile. In the attached image, you can see I'm snapping to the center-right of the named boundary, but the vertical red line is stopping exactly where the tiny annotation grid stops. In essence, the profile grid appears to be beginning at the correct point, but it's only covering 10% of the distance to either edge of the named boundary (vertically and horizontally). The profile, itself, is exaggerated 10:1, but I don't see how that should mess up the annotations - which, as I mentioned earlier, work correctly on profile models 1 through 17 of Cl Construction301.
Other than that, the profile element annotations also appear to be affected by the 10% length issue, though they're showing up at the correct locations (only moved vertically way above the profile). I've tried moving the annotations down and snapping them to the beginning of the profile, and the points line up and appear to be labeled correctly (though the annotation scale appears to be squeezed horizontally and stretched vertically). I've been using an annotation scale of 1":20' throughout the HAL file, though, so I don't see why this is happening.
8255.72376_DTM ZR.dgn72376_HAL (testing).dgn
That seems to have been the issue!
Apparently the DOT's Org-Civil files I had updated to had changed the working resolution for their Drawing/Sheet seeds, and so I could no longer cut sheets correctly, since the design model was at 1,000 resolution per distance unit (the old settings) and the new seeds were at 10,000 resolution per distance unit. I made a workaround by making copies of the drawing/sheet seeds and changing their working units/resolutions to match the old standard.
My feeling is that it is due to some intial setting in the file and especially something with working units.
If I create a new file based on Imperial Units and reference DTM and design, then copy or import alignment, then I can get annotation correctly done.
Answer Verified By: Nicholas Ericson