FDO Surface out-of-sync in paperspace

[Sinc]

I'm still trying to work with GIS data in Civil 3D, and still having lots of problems...

The latest endeavor was an attempt to use USGS DEM files. I need to pull in a number of panels. I got everything setup in a FDO Raster Surface connection, and everything comes in and appears to work well in modelspace (except for the occasional weird Draw Order behavior, which I've grown to expect).

However, when I switch to paperspace, the FDO surface fails to pan with everything else. As I pan and zoom around in paperspace, everything pans and zooms normally, except for the FDO surface, which fails to pan or zoom, and consistently displays in the wrong place.

I can print the drawing, and it prints fine. Print Preview is also fine. Modelspace is fine. It's just in Paperspace in C3D that the FDO surface is all messed up. Is anyone else familiar with THIS particular misbehavior?

-- Sinc
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[Anonymous]

It sounds like a display issue but I can't say. You might post to the Map
forum in case it is an FDO issue.

[Anonymous]

The Map group can't help him either we know of the issue and have no fix.

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"neilw" wrote in message
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It sounds like a display issue but I can't say. You might post to the Map
forum in case it is an FDO issue.

[Anonymous]

Do you know if it is related to Map, C3D or Autocad?

[Sinc]

Well, at least everything prints OK, and it all looks good in modelspace. I can live with the bogus display in paperspace.

The other annoying issue is that I'm reprojecting the DEMs from UTM NAD27 to State Plane NAD83, and I have "gaps" between a few of the panels in my surface display... I don't suppose there's any fix for that? That issue is actually more annoying, since it shows up on the final print.

-- Sinc
http://www.ejsurveying.com
http://www.quuxsoft.com

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, I would assume that its an FDO/Map issue.

I have seen that with Raster images in FDO as well. In fact, I had a
Dview Twist for the plan and profile, and I "hoped" that the image would
print 'cause I couldn't see it after rotation... It did.

Matthew Anderson, PE



dei-feif wrote:
> Well, at least everything prints OK, and it all looks good in modelspace. I can live with the bogus display in paperspace.
>
> The other annoying issue is that I'm reprojecting the DEMs from UTM NAD27 to State Plane NAD83, and I have "gaps" between a few of the panels in my surface display... I don't suppose there's any fix for that? That issue is actually more annoying, since it shows up on the final print.
>
> -- Sinc
> http://www.ejsurveying.com
> http://www.quuxsoft.com
>

[Anonymous]

Do you have the DEM's combined into a single image? It might help.



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[Anonymous]

Seeing how it happens in Map3D as well as Civil 3D and AutoCAD (vanilla)
does not have FDO I would say it's the render-engine used to render the FDO
and paperspace not getting along. There is a big black hole that likes to
distorts, reproject, colorize, or down right gobble up data when using
paperspace and the display manager, may the force be with you if you decide
to use multiple layouts.

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Murph
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"neilw" wrote in message
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Do you know if it is related to Map, C3D or Autocad?

[Anonymous]

It all turned out fine, but it was a little unnerving trying to get it
to look correct.

Matthew Anderson, PE



neilw wrote:
> Do you have the DEM's combined into a single image? It might help.
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[Sinc]

I have them all on the same Layer in Display Manager, being brought in from the same connection... Is that what you mean? Or is there a way to combine the DEMs into one?

-- Sinc
http://www.ejsurveying.com
http://www.quuxsoft.com

[Anonymous]

What I meant was the toggle to combine the images in the Raster Connect
dialogue. That will combine the images into a single image in the Display
Manager. Then any adjustments such as theming or transparency is applied to
them all uniformly. They behave as one image. It sounds like you have the
toggle on. You should see only one image in Display Manager.

If that doesn't help then the other option is to build surfaces in C3D from
the DEM data and paste them together so the triangulation closes the gaps. I
think you know from experience what will happen if you attempt to build
surfaces from the DEMs though.

wrote in message news:6343969@discussion.autodesk.com...
I have them all on the same Layer in Display Manager, being brought in from
the same connection... Is that what you mean? Or is there a way to combine
the DEMs into one?

-- Sinc
http://www.ejsurveying.com
http://www.quuxsoft.com

[Anonymous]

What I meant was the toggle to combine the images in the Raster Connect
dialogue. (See the screen cap). That will combine the images into a single
image in the Display
Manager. Then any adjustments such as theming or transparency is applied to
them all uniformly. They behave as one image. It sounds like you have the
toggle on. You should see only one image in Display Manager.

If that doesn't help then the other option is to build surfaces in C3D from
the DEM data and paste them together so the triangulation closes the gaps. I
think you know from experience what will happen if you attempt to to do that
though.

Other than those two ideas I don't have any other suggestions.