Importing Survey Feature Codes into Survey

DAvid,

I'm looking for such an app too, We have all our survey codes in access-databases and it is worse to handle it all (more than 900 codes)

with the Inrodas style mananger manually.

Frank

Years ago, one of the guys from from the InRoads team sent me a spreadsheet that wrote an FWF based upon all of the rows and columns of symbology data in a worksheet. The format of FWF it wrote was an early version that InRoads 8.2 could read and also convert into a more current version.

Being the tinkerer that I am, I began tweaking the spreadsheet to add more capabilities. My InRoads involvement is not only with survey,  but also for design. What I ended up with allowed me to use the capabilities of InRoads Survey - including its Feature Table to Preference tool and create Feature Styles and Named Symbologies. I also wrote a series of modules to get it to suck in a WYSIWYG.INI and write out Feature Styles and Named Symbologies in a format that could be pasted into a CIVIL.INI file. My plan was to use the spreadsheet to keep all of these files - FWF and the two INI files in sync.

When Bentley went to the XIN file, I stopped work on it and now, it is a piece of unfinished business.

I'll have to do some searching, but I'll see if I can find a version that is as functional as possible. It has hundreds of hours of personal time into its development but I don't see it ever being a commercial product. So If anyone would like to try it out, let me know.

I still see a need for some type of tool to allow a bulk creation of Feature Styles. And the import of Named Symbologies using the CSV file has proven to be tricky at best. I have seen the import process create duplicate entries if not done in a very specific manner.

Years ago, one of the guys from from the InRoads team sent me a spreadsheet that wrote an FWF based upon all of the rows and columns of symbology data in a worksheet. The format of FWF it wrote was an early version that InRoads 8.2 could read and also convert into a more current version.

Being the tinkerer that I am, I began tweaking the spreadsheet to add more capabilities. My InRoads involvement is not only with survey,  but also for design. What I ended up with allowed me to use the capabilities of InRoads Survey - including its Feature Table to Preference tool and create Feature Styles and Named Symbologies. I also wrote a series of modules to get it to suck in a WYSIWYG.INI and write out Feature Styles and Named Symbologies in a format that could be pasted into a CIVIL.INI file. My plan was to use the spreadsheet to keep all of these files - FWF and the two INI files in sync.

When Bentley went to the XIN file, I stopped work on it and now, it is a piece of unfinished business.

I'll have to do some searching, but I'll see if I can find a version that is as functional as possible. It has hundreds of hours of personal time into its development but I don't see it ever being a commercial product. So If anyone would like to try it out, let me know.

I still see a need for some type of tool to allow a bulk creation of Feature Styles. And the import of Named Symbologies using the CSV file has proven to be tricky at best. I have seen the import process create duplicate entries if not done in a very specific manner.