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Feature line linetype generation

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Anonymous
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Feature line linetype generation

Anyone know if they have addressed the issue of being able to generate
feature lines as a continuous linetype, like when you turn on linetype
generation in a polyline? I can't find it anywhere and I would have thought
this should have been addressed by now! Real basic need for plan creation!

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Larry Bettes
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Message 21 of 50
Jeff_M
in reply to: ArchD

No, this is for C3D objects only. 3dpolylines still display continuous only.

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Message 22 of 50
ArchD
in reply to: Jeff_M

That's a shame. Well, until then, style based pens will make them look dashed the way they should be. It's just up to you guys to determine wether switching over to STB pen sets are worth it.

 

After using STB sets, there are tons of advantages, and I would rather use them, it's just hard to get everyone in a company on the same page.

Archie Dodge
Applications Expert - Infrastructure Solutions Division
IMAGINiT Technologies
Message 23 of 50
Sinc
in reply to: Jeff_M

I am not seeing linetype generation enabled for Survey Figures in C3D 2013.  Is there some trick involved...?

Sinc
Message 24 of 50
jmayo-EE
in reply to: Sinc

plinegen?

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Message 25 of 50
Sinc
in reply to: jmayo-EE


@Anonymous wrote:

plinegen?


No effect whatsoever.

Sinc
Message 26 of 50
Jeff_M
in reply to: Sinc

It appears to be working for me. In this image, the left vertex is at 0 elevation, the right is at 260. The second image is essentially the same from 2012. I haven't done anything special.

 

5-4-2012 1-23-42 PM.png

 

5-4-2012 1-27-27 PM.png

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Message 27 of 50
jmayo-EE
in reply to: Sinc

Plinegen may need to be on prior to creating the FL/Figure. Was is set to 1 when the FL or figure was created?

John Mayo

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Message 28 of 50
BrianHailey
in reply to: jmayo-EE

I just tried it with featurelines in 2013 with both plinegen on and off and I saw no differences either way, the linetype was honored through the verticies (just like we all want it to). On a side note, this drawing was originally created in 2007 or 2008. Don't know if that makes any difference or not, just thought I would throw it out there.

Brian J. Hailey, P.E.



GEI Consultants
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Message 29 of 50
Sinc
in reply to: BrianHailey

STILL not seeing linetype generation in Survey Figures.  Not sure how y'all are seeing it.  What's the secret?

Sinc
Message 30 of 50
Sinc
in reply to: Sinc

Ah, I'm an idiot.  I had 2012 open.  Opening the same drawing in 2013 results in linetype generation.  Sorry!

Sinc
Message 31 of 50
wfberry
in reply to: Sinc

Sinc:

 

Here is how I look at this.  If Jeff says it works.  IT WORKS !

Plain and simple.

 

Smiley Very Happy

 

Bill

 

Message 32 of 50
Joe-Bouza
in reply to: Anonymous

Do you all really use corridor feature lines for planemetric linework? To like be on a finihed deliverable?

Thank you

Joseph D. Bouza, P.E. (one of 'THOSE' People)

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Message 33 of 50
jmayo-EE
in reply to: Joe-Bouza

I do on some plans. Sent from my iPhone

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Message 34 of 50
Joe-Bouza
in reply to: jmayo-EE

It sound neat, but I would have thought the 2d geometry was already there. I haven't gotten to the point where I could leave a plan blank until I get the corridor desgned 🙂

Thank you

Joseph D. Bouza, P.E. (one of 'THOSE' People)

HP Z210 Workstation
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12 GB Ram


Note: Its all Resistentialism, so keep calm and carry on

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Message 35 of 50
jmayo-EE
in reply to: Joe-Bouza

I have done this on very small jobs where the D geometry was set in stone prior to the grading and I didn't want to waste time managing an additional file. In proposed conditions our plans only use one non continuous Linotype for flu's needed to define the surface so using these Flu's is possible for sheets. We could not do this until now for existing conditions due to all of the non continuous Linotype we use. As Sinc said and as we all know from experience, the fences, dashed pavement edges, etc are not fit to print. I am hoping this new feature will save us the step of exploding figures and making D base maps from our topographic models and move away from keeping a D base design file for plotting. I will be testing this and when we roll out I hope to have new time saving procedures for the staff.

John Mayo

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Message 36 of 50
Sinc
in reply to: Joe-Bouza

I've been getting away from any sort of "plainmetric" usage, viewing it as far less useful than 3D.  That's why linetype generation on C3D elements has been such a big deal for us.

 

This one item has tempted me to roll out C3D 2013 to our company, just fearful...  It seems there's a new 2013 bug posted in these forums every other-day.  So I hope Autodesk comes out with a C3D 2013 SP1 very soon, not waiting as long as they did for 2012.

Sinc
Message 37 of 50
Joe-Bouza
in reply to: wfberry

I would like to see one of these files. It sounds impressive. Could you share a small one?

Thank you

Joseph D. Bouza, P.E. (one of 'THOSE' People)

HP Z210 Workstation
Intel Xeon CPU E31240 @ 3.30 Hz
12 GB Ram


Note: Its all Resistentialism, so keep calm and carry on

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Message 38 of 50
civ_engineer
in reply to: wfberry

So, has 2012 fixed the ltgen of feature lines or not?

I tried setting plinegen to 1 but my flowline created from "feature line from corridor" still looks horrible.

Message 39 of 50
Jeff_M
in reply to: civ_engineer

No, it is in 2013+ only.

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Message 40 of 50
civ_engineer
in reply to: Jeff_M

Is there a workaround?

How do you get your flowlines into the drawing?

 

Oddly enough.. my cut / fill slopes don't look that back... but my flowlines seem to have a lot of vertices??

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