I am working on setting up a template that has guardrail, but I want to be able to display the guardrail component only when there is an associated plan view graphic found for that side at a given station. The old way I was doing it was to have the conditional expression saying that whenever the shoulder widened to a certain width, to then display the component. This doesn't feel very intuitive and not a very accurate. I thought there was a way to display (on/off) components based off plan graphics as well as drawing the component to the associated offset of that plan graphic.
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Thanks for any help,Ken
One possible solution would be to create a null point and assign the null point a style constraint of the imported plan graphic. You can apply the display rule to that based on your width requirement too.
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Beebe,
Thanks for the reply, but I am not sure I understand how it works. I am still new to template creation and I have never played with the Style Constraints. I looked in help, but couldn't get much from it. The image below shows my current GR template which has a null point (GR Origin). I have set this point to use a Style Constrain which will be the same style when I bring in the GR element in my plan view graphics. I suppose I don't understand how to get from here to only showing this component (in the full template) when that plan view graphic is at that station.
Anywhere I can look for this information?
So maybe you can create an end condition that seeks the StyleXY or FeatureXY instead of a Surface. Choose the feature or style and then set the point of the end condition to do not construct. Then set the Guardrail Feature to be a child of the end condition that only solves when it finds the Style or Feature.
Thanks for the suggestion Beebe. This makes sense and I will let you if I have any further troubles.