Draw Alignment

[Bruce Dawson]

Hi all,
Have not posted in a while, trying to be retired!
I am doing some minor staking for an old client on an old job, and can't for the life of me figure out how to get a rather complicated Alignment to show up in the Map. I stake to it, but it doesn't show up in Map. This Alignment was manually input (not imported in any way). It does not show up as a polyline in the listing either.
Thanks for any help.
Bruce

 

[Matt Johnson]

Did you check if its page is turned on? If that is not the problem then attach the project or connect on RAMS so I can look at it.

 

[Bruce Dawson]

Hi Matt,
I believe the Alignments are all on Page 0 as well as my survey points. The points show up, but I don't see the Alignments. How do I verify the Alignments are turned on, or even the Page they are on for that matter?

 

[Matt Johnson]

Bruce I checked this and when you use "Create Alignment" to create an alignment it is only visible in the map when you select it to be staked.

 

[Bruce Dawson]

Okay, I will check that next time I am onsite. I do see that it is on Page 0 using the Info icon in Edit Alignment. How could I change the page? Alignments don't seem to show up in the Points listings where I can edit that. Also, if I wanted to just create a polyline of the Alignment, how could I do that other than import it from CAD?

 

[Matt Johnson]

I wanted to just create a polyline of the Alignment

You can do that with Edit Alignment > Manage Stake Points > Check Create Points > Save All Stake Points to the Map

This will create both the points and polyline in the map and in the list of points in the Points screen.

 

[Bruce Dawson]

Thanks Matt, I think that worked...sort of. I do have polylines for the Alignments showing up. I am not sure if the curves are there, however. Graphically, it just looks like chords, and the distance of the polyline is shorter than the Alignments stationing. Appears it just drew a polyline between the major points (PC to PT, etc). My hope was that I could just stake to this polyline as well as seeing where it lay in the Map, but I think I will need to continue staking to the Alignment. But this mostly meets my needs. I would have preferred Alignments having perhaps an option to automatically draw in the Map.
Still, thanks!

 

[Matt Johnson]

I don't think this will draw curves. It just connects all the Stake Points with a polyline. To do what you want, in the future I think it would work best if you draw the polylines in CAD and then import the CAD file in J-Field.