HELLO GUYS AM NEW IN THIS COMMUNITY, PLS AM HAVING A VERY HARD TIME USING AUTOCAD 2011 AND INROADS FOR PLAN PRODUCTION, PLS ANY IDEAS AND SUGGESTIONS WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECAITED. AM AN AUTOCAD USER AND AM RUNNING INROADS SELECT SERIES 2, PLS ANY SPECIFIC WAY OF CREATING THE PLANS AND PROFILE USING INROADS WITH AUTOCAD AS THE CAD PLATFORM. THANKS GUYS..
I suggest you post the version of AutoCAD, OS and ram.
You might also check with support. They should be the first line of defense. I will post here for suggestions and occasionally to seek help with a problem, but logging a TR is a good idea whenever you cannot get the software to run without locking up.
I have not used plan and profile generator with AutoCAD but have cut cross sections. However it was many version ago - AutoCAD 2000 and who knows what version of InRoads.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
I know for Microstation, the Global Origin of your border file must be in the center of the Design Cube. The Key-In for Microstation is:
go=0,0;xy=0,0|uor
Obviously it would be different for AutoCAD. For that matter, I don't know if AutoCAD even has a Global Origin, or a Design Cube, but look for something similar. In addition, the bottom-left corner of your title block has to be at xy=0,0 (three Zeros for a 3D file), and your plan and profile views are referenced from this point. When creating the Plan and Profile sheets, InRoads looks for these specific coordinates, and if everything isn't exactly in the right place, this is one thing that can cause your title block to be over here, and your plan and profile views to be over there, there and even way over there.
As far as freezing up, I'd do like caddcop said and contact Support.
Anyway, like I said, I realize this is for Microstation, but look for an 'AutoCAD-equivalent'.
jeff_mcleod and caddcop i really appreciate your comments, its really going to help me out, for now i need to find out what is the equivalents of global origin and the design cube in autocad, pls if anyone still have an idea, i would really appreciate i thanks.
AKANDE PAUL
CDSS NIGERIA (ASST PRODUCT MANAGER AND TRAINER)
BENTLEY PARTNER IN NIGERIA
Wasn't it the AutoCAD base point I'm rembering in th mist!
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Frank
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Thanks frank_klein i will check it out if the global origin is refering to the base point.
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