[MX V8] Long section drawing - small vertical radius annotation

You can have more than one mmd file for a project. Make a copy of your prefered parameterfile .prm and .gui e.g. tutorial.prm and tutorial.gui and rename the files like mytutorial.prm and mytutorial.gui. Then edit the mytutorial.prm file and set CLUTTEXT=0. Start MX and select "New Project". Set project location to the location where you have your modelfile stored. Give a project name other than the one already used and finally change "default project settings" to mytutorial. REMEMBER to click NO to retain existing modelfile. Otherwise modelfile is overwritten.

Now you can start the project using different parameters file.

Chers

PER JUSTSEN

I've entered an enhance request (S-62017) to let you modify CLUTTEXT either in the GUI and/or by using minor option 017.

Best Regards

Wolfgang

I have tried but it seem not to work :)

I've fiddled, for the first time ever, with the PRM settings and found that they're not immediately effected. For example:

• changing CRMDRAWM (CREATE M-STRING PARAMETERS > Draw master string) didn't work until I created a new alignment;
• CRMCHINT (CREATE M-STRING PARAMETERS > Chainage interval) didn't work until I created a new project (overwriting my mmd);
• and changing all the HORIZONTAL DISPLAY parameters to 2 (red and dashed) has (so far) had no effect.

Perhaps changing all the required parameters in the file and then starting a new project would apply them all at once, but I was hoping to be able to experiment with the settings and see the reaction "on the fly". Ho-hum.

S

The parameter file (*.PRM) is like a 'template' for the MX project file (*.MMD). The settings of the PRM are stored in the MMD at the moment when you create the MMD.

The MMD file also stores the name of the PRM it was created from.

But the MMD doesn't get automatically updated when you change the PRM.

To "update" the MMD you must actually overwrite it:

Create New MX Project

- Project: the name of the existing MMD

- Location: the name of the existing MX project folder

On the first question... click YES to overwrite the MMD.

On the second question... click NO to retain the model.fil !!!

Alternatively you could also create a different MMD, as suggested by Per Justsen.

Regards

Wolfgang

So that's why when I changed "CLUTTEXT" it didn't affected the drawings. Good to know.

Another thing that's worth mentioning is that while drawing with mxtips (using GUI) it has the possibility of displaying bent leaders to text if "CLUTTEXT" is set to 0 while in Linemode text is removed.

The datum bug on paged longs still persists also.

Regards,

Vali.

You can also just open the *.MMD file in any notepad and edit the value of "CLUTTEXT" just before creating a final drawing.

There are same cases while You need in final drawing both CLUTTEXT=0 (box annotation of vertical curve) and CLUTTEXT=1 (level of section string through very dense TRIA model). In this situation I am creating two temporary drawings and with them compile a third (final). Don't know any other way.

Best regards
Aleksander Zamorski 

You can also just open the *.MMD file in any notepad and edit the value of "CLUTTEXT" just before creating a final drawing.

There are same cases while You need in final drawing both CLUTTEXT=0 (box annotation of vertical curve) and CLUTTEXT=1 (level of section string through very dense TRIA model). In this situation I am creating two temporary drawings and with them compile a third (final). Don't know any other way.

Best regards
Aleksander Zamorski 

It is not recommended to edit MMD files using a TextEditor.

There's the real possibility that you corrupt the MMD.

IF you edit the MMD, you should be using hex editing mode, or a hex editor.

But again, it's not recommended to edit MMDs like that.

Regards

Wolfgang

I did it with Notepad++ and it works great :)

There is a grain of anarchism in my soul and sometimes I got real pleasure while doing something what is not recommended :)

Seriously, I NEVER did anything like this without insurance - i.e. copy of file. I have passed through so many accidents of MODEL.FIL while compressing...

Regards
Aleksander Zamorski