Reference station to signage blocks

[GZE]

Am designing a long road with many road signage blocks, i want to create a list of road signs with reference alignment stations. What is the best method to do this task.

[odoshi]

If you have points at the locations of the signs, the Points > Station Offset to Points report would work well.

Regards,

Mike

[sjg]

Haven't done this before but an idea would be to assign points at each sign referencing the alignment then create a point table

[Joe-Bouza]

I'm not sure you can get a station referance to a point. But  you can get a sign symbol into a drainage structure. create a structure style for each sign, create a pipe network of only structures. now youll have a dynamic sign table from the network

[Pointdump]

Humphrey,

I stumbled upon this Third-Party Software that seems to do what you want:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFaE0pK4TI

Dave

[jmayo-EE]

I like this idea Joe. Pipe networks can be used outside of the box for a lot of things. Think about inlet filters/protection with a hidden pipe style next time you do an SESC plan. Fully dynamic block locations. Lots of fun things.

[jmayo-EE]

Credit for the inlet protection idea goes to our CAD Manager Bill not myself.

[Joe-Bouza]

Thank you John. Thankfully I didn't use the word "all" {|;-o

[Pointdump]

Joe,

"Thankfully I didn't use the word 'all'..."

Are you still smartin'? I'm so glad I resisted stepping into that one.

As for Pipes, I've only done Tutorials, so I don't know much about them. But I've set your idea up on a shelf inside my brain and might use it someday.

Dave

[Joe-Bouza]

Been Licking my wounds all weekend, Dave 🙂

I'm all ...um ah... mostly better now 🙂

[Bill_Myron]

You can add a User Defined Property Class to points.

Settings>Points>User Defined Property Class

Create the station property. After creating this, you will see that property at the bottom of the Properties Palette when you select a point. Pretty sure it shows up in the prospector and panorama too, but I never use those for points.

This is a non-dynamic manual property, but it can be added to a table. How often would you move signs anyways? 

AND you can always make the point label be the sign block. Win Win.

[Pointdump]

Bill,

"...you can always make the point label be the sign block."

That opens up some interesting possibilities! Another idea to place on a shelf in my mind.

Dave

[GZE]

Thanks all for your advice