Team -
I have a completed project. I have to add a station equation to my base centerline to acomplish an alignment change (long story). Now I have to incorporate that station equation into my profile(s). However, when I try to load the original profiles into the verticial alignment tool I get an error: "Can not load Profile. VPI #... not on chain..." Usally, when this happens, I click <ok> and the tool loads the profile anyway, but not this time. After clicking through several similar error messages, Geopak states: "Parameter setting incompatible with current profile." Any suggestions? Do I need to start over with my profiles?
Daniel McCullough
MS 08.09.04.51, GP 08.09.06.30
The Vertical Alignment Generator tool will not allow you to load a mismatched Chain/Profile. You need to use the Element > Profile > Restation tool in COGO to restation the profile.
Derricke
Derricke -
Thanks for the input. I tried the Restation Profile command. It seemed to work because I could now load my profiles into the Vertical Alignment tool. However, the restationing tool moved every VPI station located after the equation by the distance defined by the equation. I was hoping to insert the equation without moving any VPIs. Changing the station of the VPI's essentially moved the profile to a different physical loaction on the chain, wrecking my design. (No actual designs were harmed in the writing of this post). I suppose that this still better than no solution.
Daniel
I think I figured out how to fiddle with the restation tool <begin station> setting to get all the VPIs after the station equation to line up. I only had to reprofile the first quarter mile and not the last 3.8 miles of the project. I also had to physically move all the profile line work that occured before the equation, I had to reset the Active Chain control Profile Cell with a new begining station, and smooth out any changes that occured across the Station Equation in the profile. Other than that, it was pretty easy.