Carlson question

It's under "Centerline".
Edit: I'm running 2008 standalone

calcoff will report station and offset to a line or a curve. The curve needs to be a polyline.

Under the drop down Centerline, Calculate Offsets.

Hope it helps.

To clarify, I already know the Sta's & Offsets from the plans, I'm trying to draw the lines they define.

In LDD, You input Sta & OS of beginning of line and then Sta & OS of subsequent points and the program draws the lines connecting them.

Thanks,
SS

Try the Centerline drop down and you will find what your looking for. The line has to be a polyline as Kris has mentioned. I don't know if the lines will be automatically drawn but if they are consecutive you can use the line drop down and menu to connect.

Edit:

After defining your centerline do a station polyline/centerline. This will show all the stations pc pt's blah blah blah.

Then go to offset/point entry. Plug in the station and then the offset info. As a check you can use the Label Station offset and each pint you pick will show up in the upper left hand screen

What he's looking for is the ability to draw lines/curves by station offset from an existing baseline. I know that Carlson didn't do it when I last used it over two years ago. It's a snap function in Terramodel.

Jason

I don't care about the points, I just want the program to draw the linework that connects the points, i.e. lines from 2+00,Rt10 to 2+50,Rt10 to 2+50,Rt25 to 2+00,Rt25 & closing back to 2+00,Rt10.

For about 10 years I've never had a "point" in a project that did not represent a field location; if I do a deed or map entry, it's simply an annotated polyline that becomes a block entity that I can manipulate to fit my field locations. No points involved except those I've measured. It works well for me, because I'm easily confused by scads of points in a drawing.

What I'm hearing is that I have to create the points at the sta & OS, & then draw the linework manually? Or am I being thick? (I'm noted for that, just ask Frau Schultz...)

Thanks,
SS

I agree with Jason. Maybe RK Mckswain could help. I think he is a user and you could shoot him an email. Wish I could help more.

You could draw the baseline and then use the "extend" command.
Use the "M" option in "extend" to move the cursor up the baseline to the station and then hit "D" (to draw a line), then hit "L" or "R" to turn the cursor 90d and enter your offset length. Then connect the line ends.

There is no reason you can't do what you're wanting, just you'll have to add a step.

Draw the base line and the offsets with 2dp. Then draw another line connecting the points.

I use very little points. I don't generate points for deeds unless I'm going to go set them or something.

There are tons of things on my drawing that were never measured in in a manner of speaking.

> I just want the program to draw the linework that connects the points, i.e. lines from 2+00,Rt10 to 2+50,Rt10 to 2+50,Rt25 to 2+00,Rt25 & closing back to 2+00,Rt10.

Probably the easiest method for several chains/figures along an alignment would be to:

1. Open the Centerline -- Input-Edit Centerline File command.
2. Click on the ROW (Right-of-Way) button and then click New.
3. Input the Station/Offset pairs for a given "chain" or "figure."

> from 2+00,Rt10 to 2+50,Rt10 to 2+50,Rt25 to 2+00,Rt25 & closing back to 2+00,Rt10.

4. Repeat steps 2 - 3 for the various polylines you wish to draw.
5. Save and exit from the Centerline editor.
6. Run the Centerline -- Label/Draw Right of Way command.

If you only have two Rights-of-Way to input, you could also run the Centerline -- Enter Right of Way command.

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Ladd Nelson