This file contains the descriptions for the
individual corrections and improvements that were made in the
past year. This covers the "2000 A"/"99 N"
through "2000 L"/"99 Z" releases.
Contents
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
The following features have been added to Eagle Point Software:
- Quantity Take Off - Import Database. A new command has
been added to the Database menu called Import. This
command allows you to append your current QTO database
with additional records by importing an ASCII file that
contains your own specific Item IDs and costs. The file
to import can be either comma delimited (.csv) or tab
delimited. After specifying the file name to import, you
must assign which columns of data belong to the specified
QTO fields. Minimally, you must import a CSI division,
Item ID, Description, Unit of Measure, Unit Cost 1 and
Unit Cost 2. You may also optionally import an Alternate
ID, Phase Code or Item Code (these are not required). The
CSI Division must be a 2-digit number between 01 and 16.
If a CSI division is not important to your database,
specify the CSI Division as 01. The Item ID must be 8
characters long. The Description must be between 1 and 70
characters long. The Unit of Measure must be between 1
and 4 characters long. The Unit cost must be greater than
0.00 and less then 1000000.00. While both Unit costs are
required, you can specify the same unit cost for both
Unit Cost 1 and Unit Cost 2. The Alternate ID can not be
greater than 12 characters long, the Phase Code cannot be
greater than 9 characters long and the Item Code cannot
be greater than 4 characters long.
The first line of the file must be the headers for each
column of data. The rows following the header must
contain the data for each record. For example:
CSI,Item ID,Description,Unit of
Measure,Unit Cost 1,Unit Cost 2
01,12344321,Stop Sign,Ea,15.00,20.00
01,87654321,Striping,L.F.,3.00,4.50
- RoadCalc - Catchlines. A toggle has been added to this
command that allows you to place the catchlines at a 2D
elevation of 0 (zero). This creates a 2D polyline/linestring
which enables special linetypes to be used in AutoCAD and
allows the feature to be more easily offset.
- RoadCalc - Breaklines from PT Codes. A toggle has been
added to this command that allows you to place the
breaklines at a 2D elevation of 0 (zero). This creates a
2D polyline/linestring which enables special linetypes to
be used in AutoCAD and allows the feature to be more
easily offset.
- Site Design - 3D Feature Editor. A toggle was added to
the Slope Projections Settings dialog box that allows you
to create a surface model of the proposed geometry. With
this toggle on, selecting the Calculate Volumes or
Preview Objects button triangulates the current 3D object
and any slope projection lines into the model name
specified. If slope projections are included, the
catchline is used as a boundary for the surface model.
Once the 3D Feature Editor is closed, the toggle is set
off and must be explicitly turned on to triangulate a
different object.
- Site Design - 3D Feature Editor. The Place button was
added to the preview dialog box to place the current
Slope Projections into the CAD graphic. The CAD Settings
are taken from the Slope Projection Settings dialog box.
Previous slope projection lines will not be erased. Use
the Erase By Selection button on the Project Slopes to
Surface Model command to erase previously drawn slope
projection lines.
- Data Collection - Uploading to Sokkia SDR33. A new
collector format was added to the Upload to Collector
command called "Sokkia SDR USFT". This format
is for the SDR 33 collector and sets the unit of measure
in the uploaded file to U.S. Feet. This new format was
added to prevent potential coordinate scaling problems if
the Distance setting of the SDR33 collector is set to U.S.
Feet. Using the "Sokkia SDR33" format still
uploads the file as before, setting the unit of measure
to Feet (International feet).
- Surface Modeling - Triangulate Merged Surface Models.
This command has been substantially sped up.
- System - AutoCAD users. Digitizer tablet overlay commands
have been incorporated into the Embedded CAD Menus.
The EPCivTab.dwg tablet overlay drawing can be downloaded
for free from:
ftp://ftp2.eaglepoint.com/Patches/Civil/Egpt/Year2000/EPTab
This drawing file should be placed in the ..\EGPT\Images
folder. To access the tablet overlay commands, it
is recommended that all EGPT_*.MNC, EGPT_*.MNR and EGPT_*.MNS
files be removed from the ..\EGPT\Program folder.
- System - New Project. Additional error checking has
been added to verify that the named prototype drawing
exists before a project can be created and new additional
drawings can now be created at run-time. Additional
error checking has been added to prevent duplicate
projects from being created.
- System - Open Project. If only one project exists in
the Project listing and the project is inaccessible, the
Delete Project button is no longer disabled.
- System - Project Properties. The Utility file (projectname.UTL
commonly used in RoadCalc, Storm Sewers, or Sanitary
Sewers) is now incorporated into the Manifest for the
project.
- COGO - Locate Lost Point. The elevation of a located
lost point between two points of different elevations is
now the prorated elevation rather than the elevation of
the first Node selected.
- COGO - Offset. Offsetting a closed figure to the
outside will now produce a closed figure.
- COGO - Inscribed Curve. Tabbing out of an empty Node
ID edit box no longer produces Eagle Point Exception
error.
- COGO - Convert Lot by Eagle Point Boundary. The tolerance
is now being used properly.
- COGO - Create Lot Group. Lot Groups can now be deleted.
- Data Collection - Upload to Collector. Nodes
exported to a Sokkia format will no longer have the
Northing and Easting coordinates transposed when the file
is re-imported back in as a Sokkia data format.
- Data Collection - Reduce. Certain conditions have
been corrected that would have erroneously reported
"Error, curve designator at end or beginning points
of line" messages. Additionally, certain conditions
have been corrected that would have erroneously reported
"Line only contains one point" messages. This
problem was commonly encountered when shots were coded to
create a line and the along with cross-section shots
where the cross-section pattern used the same line name.
- Data Collection - Reduce (AutoCAD/IntelliCAD users).
Reducing multiple curve designated shots for 3-D linework
no longer produces chorded linework.
- Data Collection - 3-D Line Templates. The preview of
the 3-D Line Template will now properly display the
results of the template if all break points have been
deleted.
- Data Collection - 3-D Line Templates. Clicking the OK
button now correctly commits the break point information
and dismisses the New 3-D Line Template Breakpoint dialog
box.
- Data Collection - 3-D Line Templates. Reducing data
with 3-D Line Templates and two or more consecutive curve
designated shots should no longer produce crossing
breaklines.
- Data Collection - Linework. When associating a 3-D
Line Template other than the first 3-D Line Template in
the list, the correct 3-D Line Template will now display.
- Data Collection - Linework. Additional error
checking has been incorporated to prevent duplicate
descriptions of Line Libraries or Linetype Libraries.
- Data Collection - Reduction Settings. Modifying
Geodat tags now correctly displays the proper data tag
name and description.
- Drafting - Annotation Styles. All of the Symbol
Multiplier edit fields and Text Height Displacement edit
fields now show 8 places of precision instead of 2.
- Drafting - Annotate Lots. The proper insertion point
for the annotation of the lot is now properly calculated
if the lot was adjusted or moved from the location it was
originally created at.
- Drafting - Annotate Multiple Objects. Annotation for
lines, curves, and alignments is now placed properly for
when the Rotate View Orientation is 180°.
- Drafting - Create Lot Table. Several fixes have been
made to the command to correct placement options that did
not work correctly and to update lot information in Lot
Tables if the lots are modified using native CAD editing
commands.
- Drafting - Date/Time Stamp. Selecting 'Time &
Date' or 'Date & Time' will now place both pieces of
information.
- Drafting - Insert Path. Use of this command on
drawing or design files other than those listed in the
Eagle Point Project (*.epp) file will now correctly place
the name of the active CAD graphic.
- Drafting - Write Legal Description. Passing ties can
now be created. Creating a legal description by points
with the Close Object command no longer draws a line to
the origin to close the area resulting in incorrect
direction and distance information.
- Intersection Design - Islands/Medians. The Offset
control now allows negative offset values.
- Profiles - Annotate/Query Vertical Curve. In certain
situations, annotating a vertical curve of a RoadCalc
centerline profile would place faulty annotation or
report incorrect vertical curve values. This has been
corrected.
- Quantity Take-off - Manage. Additional error
checking has been added that prevent the Modify and
Delete options if assemblies do not yet exist.
- RoadCalc - Edit Alignment Data. When specifying
Rollover parameters for all curves, the Rollover option
is enabled at all PI locations that contain horizontal
curves information and non-zero MSE values.
- RoadCalc - Edit Alignment Data. Modifying a PI location
with certain faulty Drafting annotation styles will no
longer produce a software lock-up.
- RoadCalc - Convert Objects to Alignment. The
Beginning of Project station value edit field now allows
a plus (+) character as part of the station value.
- RoadCalc - Extract Cross-Section Data. Clicking on
the Surface Model globe for multiple surface projects no
longer populates the wrong droplist.
- RoadCalc - Edit Profile Data. When the Pick In CAD (PIC)
button was used to modify a VPI station or elevation and
the Profile drawing was not loaded, the coordinate of the
active drawing was used as the station and elevation
value. The PIC button has been disabled in this case
to prevent this behavior.
- RoadCalc - Edit Profile Data. Modifying the
elevation of a VPI now adjusts subsequent VPI that are
not toggled as 'Fixed'.
- RoadCalc - Edit Profile Data. Toggling the
Asymmetric Curve option on for VPI locations with a curve
length of zero will no longer produce a software lock-up.
- RoadCalc - Edit Profile Data. Adjusting only the grade to
a VPI marked as 'Fixed' is now allowed.
- RoadCalc - Profile Settings. When specifying the
location of a Profile Coordinate System in the Plan
drawing, the Pick In CAD (PIC) button is disabled when
the Plan drawing is not active.
- RoadCalc - Run Design. Inconsistent behavior when
applying a benching pattern from a location on the
typical section other than the outermost point has been
corrected.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheet Plots. Various
modifications have been made to correct the fuel gauge
placement, the ability to save user format settings, the
ability to properly handle orphaned sheets, the proper
placement of annotated volume information, and other
annotation formatting problems.
- RoadCalc - Mass Diagrams. The values placed in the
Mass Diagram now correctly account for surfaces that are
toggled off.
- RoadCalc - Mass Diagrams. Loading a saved format no
longer removes existing sheets from the Mass Diagram
listing.
- RoadCalc - Catchpoints. The catchline limits when an
Overbreak and/or Undercut surface is in use no longer
produces faulty catchline limits. Also, the
performance of the command on large projects has been
improved.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. Switching from a volume report
to another RoadCalc sub-project and extracting cross-sections
no longer results in a software crash.
- RoadCalc - Sub-project Prototype Settings. Lengthy
descriptions no longer cause erratic behavior.
- Sewers - Export/Import. Problems relating to missing pipe
materials in the exported data no longer produces faulty
behavior when importing the data.
- Sewers - Plan & Profile Sheets. Creating a sewer
reach that references an alignment whose stationing
increased in the direction of flow now correctly places
the downstream junction.
- Sewers - Plan & Profile Sheets. Pipe annotation
and the Sheet Border are now properly controlled by their
respective CAD Settings.
- Sewers - Custom Reports. Invert Slope is now
available as an 'Available Item to Print'.
- Storm Sewers - Edit Junctions. When changing the
inlet type and calculating the network, the inlets of
other junctions are no longer set to undefined.
- Site Design - Project Plan Objects. The ability to
project native points to a Surface Model has been
restored.
- Site Design - Calculate Grade and Distance. Corrections
have been made to the Pick In CAD (PIC) control to remove
erratic behavior.
- Site Design - Shadow Flow Lines. CAD Settings are
now properly read and used.
- Surface Modeling - Feature Line. Using the Pick In
CAD (PIC) control to specify the direction of a desired
side no longer applies incorrect formatting to the
reported value.
- Surface Modeling - Surface Model from Contours. The
status of the command via the fuel gauge has been greatly
improved to provide more feedback about the progress of
the algorithm.
- Surface Modeling - Batch Operations (Microstation users). Attempting
batch operations without a properly defined fence caused
erratic behavior. This has been corrected.
- Surface Modeling - Add Point to Model. Adding a point to
a surface model and editing the elevation value of the
point selected no longer produces an application error.
- LandCADD - System (Microstation users). Closing any
active Eagle Point Command will cancel and focus will
return to the last dialog dialog box.
- LandCADD - System (Microstation users). Projects
with Architectural units will now correctly scale
LandCADD symbols.
- Irrigation Design - Drip Emitter. Will allow the
placement of emitters into CAD if there is no flow
assigned to a plant style with 0 plants.
- Landscape Design - VIP Plant Locate. Will correctly
snap plants to the selected surface model.
- Site Planning - Parking Lot Layout. Corrected the
duplication of end strips.
- Site Planning - Parking Lot Layout. Updated stall
line placement.
- Site Planning - Parking Lot Layout. Updated
handicap symbol placement.
- Site Planning - Parking Lot Layout. Update angle
parking lines to be uniform in length.
- Site Planning - Parking Lot Layout. Updated bi-directional
placement.
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
The following features have been added to Eagle Point Software:
- System - Node Field Code Library. VIP clients who use the
Additional Symbol capabilities for Nodes now can change
the Additional Symbol Multiplier using the Global Modify
command.
- Site Design - Annotate Slopes. A new command was added to
the Slopes menu called Annotate Slopes. This command
provides an annotation tool to label grades from points
selected on a Surface Model. You can annotate the grade
by picking a single point, picking a triangle and having
the slope annotated from the center of the triangle or by
picking two points on a surface model. Choose the slope
type (%, H/V, V/H or Unit/Unit), leader length,
annotation prefix/suffix and precision and whether the
annotation is above or below the leader. The annotation
object that is placed dynamically updates when the leader
is moved by using CAD commands and grips.
- System - Node Field Code Library. An Export option has
been added to the Manage Node Field Code Libraries
command that writes an ASCII file in the same format that
the Import Field Code Library command uses. This allows
for easily making mass changes/additions to a field code
library in an external file editor and then re-importing
the ASCII file back in.
- System - External Node Database. Microstation Users only.
When attempting to delete nodes that were locked and then
running a Microstation command without using the Reset
mouse button, the nodes were deleted. If the nodes are
locked in the graphic, this no longer occurs.
- System - Alignment Modifications. When modifying an
alignment that has been annotated with station
information, only the annotation on the modified
alignment is updated. The subsequent updated
annotation is placed using the active Default CAD
Settings for Drafting alignment annotation.
- COGO and Drafting - Lots are now dynamic such that grip
editing defined lots now updates all numeric data and
annotation upon modifying the lot. This affects the
Defined Lots dialog box, Modify Lot, Create Lot Groups,
Create Lot Report, Create Mapcheck Reports, Annotate Lots
and Write Legal Description.
- COGO - Distance/Direction dialog boxes. When using the
options that called for Node ID's to be entered (Two
Point, Direction Point, etc.) with an external node
database, the duplicate Node Instance dialog box
improperly displayed. This problem has been resolved.
- COGO - Select Nodes dialog boxes. When an External Node
Database is attached, the proximity option was returning
all of the Node ID's numbered up to the valid nodes that
are actually within the proximity. This problem has been
resolved.
- COGO - Resolve Duplicate Nodes. This dialog box no longer
reports 3 times as many duplicate nodes when using an
external node database.
- COGO - Construct Through Nodes. Changing the option from
drawing through curves to drawing lines and selecting the
PT Node as the Line Start Point, no longer places a zero
length line in CAD.
- COGO - Report Angle. The Angle Selection Method of 'Lines'
now displays the proper dialog box for selecting objects.
- Data Collection - Cross-Section Patterning. Certain data
sets drawing 3D lines in a cross-section pattern would
produce linework that "spiked" to improper
elevations. This problem is now resolved.
- Data Collection - Add Undefined Lines to Linework Library.
Microstation users only. Reducing a file that contains
undefined line names now makes the default level 1
instead of 0.
- Data Collection - 3D Linework. Microstation users only.
If the shots that make up a curve are all at a constant
elevation, the curve is drawn as a Microstation curve
element rather than an Eagle Point spline.
- Data Collection - Linework. Linework that is coded with
more than one stop line indicator will no longer
erroneously report warnings about the line containing
only one point.
- Drafting - Annotate Alignment. Grip editing an alignment
or using the Edit Alignment Data command in RoadCalc no
longer updates the annotation on all alignments. Only the
modified alignment annotation updates.
- Drafting - Annotate Alignment. RoadCalc Alignments with
compound or reverse curves are now getting the PRC and
PCC point with the proper label. Additionally, ending
points on non-tangent curves are now labeled as a PI
instead of a PT.
- Drafting - Alignment Table. Having a view rotation of
greater than 180 degrees no longer annotates the curve
prefixes backwards.
- Drafting - Annotation Styles. Changing the order for
annotation labels to values outside the maximum number of
things to annotate, no longer produces improper
annotation.
- Drafting - Insert North Arrow. Microstation users only.
The North arrow is now oriented properly when a view
rotation is set.
- Drafting - Break command. Breaking an object no longer
changes the object's CAD settings to the active settings;
the original CAD properties are maintained.
- Profiles - Draw Vertical Curve. Vertical Curves are no
longer queried/annotated as asymmetric vertical curves
when they are symmetric.
- RoadCalc - Generate Alignment Reports. The TR and SR
values have been switched in the printout to order them
the same as they appear on the Edit Alignment Data dialog
box.
- RoadCalc - Edit Cross-Section Data. Deleting shots on all
design surfaces at a station now properly updates the end
area files to "0".
- RoadCalc - Pin Cross-Section Slopes. This command no
longer reports an "Unsupported Operation" when
selected from the Edit Cross-Section Data dialog box.
- RoadCalc - Edit Profile Data. Toggling off the Asymmetric
Curve toggle on the Edit Profile Data dialog box now
forces the profile graphic to be redrawn with a symmetric
vertical curve.
- RoadCalc - Print Typical Sections. The Manage Typical
Section and Edit Typical Section Data commands have Print
buttons that now enable you to print out the data points
for the typical section in addition to the listing of
typical sections.
- Run Design - Using the Extend Slope control type for an
alignment that only exists for a portion of the corridor
no longer extends the slope over the entire typical
section range.
- RoadCalc - Edit Cross-Sections. Changes were made to the
reading/writing of the RCXPL###.DAT data file so that
occasional loss of the sheet listing no longer occurs.
This only occurred when the sub-project number was the
same as the sheet format default number.
- RoadCalc - Actual Volumes. Sub-projects with 2 or more
actual surfaces displayed the end-area and volume data in
the incorrect columns. This problem has been resolved.
- RoadCalc - Volume Settings. Toggling off Pavement
Surfaces to display in a sub-project converted from
version USEP5.5 no longer produces a Windows Exception
error.
- Sewers - Edit Junctions. You may now use this command to
change the downstream junction to a higher junction
number.
- Site Design - Calculate Slice Volumes. The table placed
into CAD no longer reports English unit labels in Metric
projects.
- Surface Modeling - Triangulation commands. These command
were sped up when the objects you are selecting are
existing contours (lines and polylines/linestrings).
- Surface Modeling - Import ASCII Points. Point files with
negative coordinates are now properly imported.
- Construction Details - Updated preview in the Locate
Detail to maintain the Aspect Ratio and update the
background color.
- Construction Details - Add right-click menu options to
the Tree & List controls that allow the use of add,
rename, copy, and delete.
- Construction Details - Added delete key options –
delete all selected details in list view.
- Construction Details - Added drag-n-drop operation from
list control to tree control to move files in the
Construction Detail Manager.
- Construction Details - Added code to the detail manager
to highlight all details that are not valid for the
currently active CAD.
- Construction Details - Added code to Locate Detail to
filter out details that are not valid for the currently
active CAD.
- Construction Details - Added Auto-fix feature to format
any detail that is not valid for the currently active CAD.
- Base Planning - Fixed multiple scale bug of breaking
Irrigation Head/Coverage grouping when multiple heads are
selected. Fixed to keep links for all heads selected.
- System - Updated code to copy QTO data for items that
have QTO on them when they are copied using a CAD copy
command.
- Irrigation Design - Fixed bug on scaling of drip emitters.
Updated to place drip emitters using the plot scale and
the plotted size in the edit control.
- Irrigation Design - Updated Auto-size lateral to allow
the resizing of a zone and update the zone valve's symbol
scale based upon what is active in the pipe configuration.
- Irrigation Design - Updated Locate Drip Emitter’s
interface to be more user friendly. Added feature to auto-update
the flow rate while editing. Added feature of assigning
QTO data to the emitters. Added feature to auto update
the math while modifying data on the dialog.
- Irrigation Design - Increase speed of closing Pipe &
Head commands.
- Irrigation Design - Added settings to remember the
Adjustable Arc toggle for Locate Single.
- Irrigation Design - Added Drip line to the equipment
table.
- Irrigation Design - Correctly places head on the edge of
a boundary for Auto Locate command (Microstation users).
- Irrigation Design - Updated Edit Pipe Database command to
resort the pipe sizes after adding/modify pipe data.
- Irrigation Design - Added update to Auto-size Lateral
command to compare heads in the selection and insure that
they are all in the same zone – Prompt to add them
all to the same zone or ignore.
- Irrigation Design - Added update to Auto-size Lateral to
carry the nozzle data over the Zone Define command.
- Irrigation Design - Updated Zone Calculations command to
properly display the Operating time when the zone is
defined using the Every X Days option.
- Irrigation Design - Updated Zone Report command to
correctly display the Operating time and water usage
report when reporting by zone.
- Irrigation Design - Adding setting to remember the label
toggle in Auto Pipe Locate.
- Irrigation Design - Added feature to set the focus to the
Zone Edit field after selecting the zone data.
- Landscape Design - Updated VIP Palette Manager dialog to
constantly display selected data – even when losing
focus to the other list control.
- Landscape Design - Updated VIP Convert Circles command to
correctly scale symbol when inserting plan symbols into
AutoCAD 2000. Previously was placing with a 1.0 scale for
all of the scales.
- Landscape Design - Updated VIP Convert Circle to gray out
fields are not required.
- Landscape Design - Updated Modify Plant Attribute command
dialog to take advantage of the plant palette. Updated
dialog to display only the available plants for the
currently active palette. Added VIP enhancements that
allow the VIP users to access the Palette and Size
Managers from the dialog with the usage of buttons.
- Landscape Design - Updated VIP Plant Locate command to
display metric value for height & diameter when a
plant is selected for placement.
- Landscape Design - Updated the Plant Palette icon.
- Landscape Design - Updated prompts for the VIP Grove
command
- Landscape Design - Updated VIP Grove command to delete
the boundary after selecting the rotation angle and/or
any islands to avoid.
- Landscape Design - Added setting to remember the VIP
Grove command delete boundary toggle.
- Quantity Take-off - Updated Print settings to remember
secondary sort.
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
The following features have been added to Eagle Point Software:
- Data Collection - Cross-Section Patterning. A new option
was added to the definition of a cross-section pattern
that allows for specifying a field code along with the
line name for each shot taken in the pattern. This option
removes the need to enter the node field code as part of
the description of the shot. Now, just the cross-section
pattern name can be entered in the field and when reduced,
the pattern places the node(s) using the specified field
code(s). If a field code is denoted in the description of
the shot, that field code over-rides the field code
specified in the pattern. Additionally, the draw line
designator does not need to be used.
- RoadCalc - Extend subsurfaces. A new toggle was added to
the Manage Condition Tables -> Condition Settings -
General Tab page that provides new functionality to the
processing of typical sections. If the Use Extend
Subsurfaces toggle is on, RoadCalc will extend
subsurfaces to the catch slope line after superelevation
is calculated. Only the subsurfaces that have a
breakpoint directly under the point at which the slopes
are attached will be extended. That point is specified in
the New or Modify Condition dialog in the At PT Code drop
list. For additional information click
here.
- Profiles - Pipe Annotation. A new option has been added
to the Draw Pipes and Draw Pipe Structure to Structure
commands to allow for customizing the annotation that is
placed when running these commands. The Pipe Annotation
Settings dialog box allows you to control how the pipe
annotation is placed along the pipe. For each of the five
pieces of annotation (Length, Size, Shape, Material and
Slope), you can toggle off, change the order of and
change the placement of the five pieces of annotation.
Additionally, you can customize the prefix and suffix
around each piece of data. For additional information click here.
- Site Design - Draw Feature Line. This command has been
updated to allow for directional input in bearings, north
azimuth and south azimuth.
- Surface Modeling - Predefined Void Regions. Changes were
made to the Predefined Void Regions command to allow for
additional selection methods. For AutoCAD/IntelliCAD/EP
Graphics Engine users, an option exists to select the
objects in CAD or to specify a layer that contains the
objects to predefine. For Microstation users, the
selection option allows for a single selection method, a
fence selection method or for specifying a level that
contains the objects to predefine. Whether you are
selecting the objects to be void regions by layer, level
or fence, the only objects that are predefined on the
layer/level or within the fence, are closed polylines or
closed shapes (Microstation).
Also, every closed region selected is now grouped
together under the name specified instead of adding an
entry for each object. Additionally, you are able to
predefine an object to be a void region for every surface
model you create within the current project.
- System - DCA2EP. This command has been added to the
IntelliCAD and Eagle Point Graphics Engine plug-ins. Type
this command at the command line to convert Softdesk 7.0/8.0
nodes into Eagle Point nodes. Be sure to THAW and UNLOCK
all node and node attribute layers prior to running this
conversion routine.
- Installation - InstallShield handling of system locked
and shared files has been improved to prevent certain
system files from being removed during an un-install.
- Installation - AutoCAD users only. The setup routine
checks for the existence of the Eagle_Point_98 profile
and does not overwrite it if it exists. The ACADHelp
variable is also added into Eagle_Point_98 profile from
the Default profile.
- Installation - After installing a newer version, certain
user settings are now being held including the CAD
command line switch, last project prototype used, dialogs
on top and embedded CAD menus.
- Installation - Network Setup. The InstallShield copy of
deployment files to a Novell server now copies all
necessary deployment files.
- Installation - Network Setup. A README.TXT file is now
installed to the client deployment folder indicating what
release is contained within that setup.
- Installation - Network Setup. Client deployments are back
to being completely silent. The Welcome and Installation
Complete dialog boxes no longer appear. Additionally, the
installation automatically assumes the update/repair
option when run from the client deployment location.
- Installation - Network Client Deployment. Attempting a re-install
of Eagle Point 99U/2000G/2000Q3 to a client workstation
that already had one of those versions, resulted in the
EGPT.EXE file being removed. This problem has been
resolved.
- System - AutoCAD 2000i Support. AutoCAD 2000i and AutoCAD
Map 2000i are now supported CAD engines. If you are
performing a clean installation of Eagle Point you may
choose the "AutoCAD 2000/2000i" or "AutoCAD
Map 2000/Map 2000i" option during the setup routine.
If you have upgraded or plan to upgrade to AutoCAD 2000i
from a previous version of AutoCAD 2000, you should be
able to continue using Eagle Point without further
modifications to Eagle Point or AutoCAD.
For other CAD versions, use the Configure CAD Engine
command in the Eagle Point Administrator and direct the
ACAD.EXE file location to your AutoCAD 2000 folder. You
will also need to add an Eagle_Point_98 profile with
additional Support File Search Paths of the ..\EGPT\IMAGES
folder, ..\EGPT\EP2000\PROGRAM and ..\EGPT\EP2000\DWG
folders.
- System - AutoCAD 2000 users only. The Eagle Point
Embedded CAD menus no longer get loaded more than once.
When using the embedded menus, switching to different
drawings would result in multiple menu loads.
- System - Open Project. If the project *.ifo file became
corrupted, opening that project would create a *.tmp file
that increased in size, preventing the project from
opening. This problem has been resolved.
- System - Copy Sub-project. RoadCalc data files are now
copied properly when copying from a project with Advanced
Data and Plot File locations set to a project with
advanced locations.
- System - Dynamic Annotation Toggle. Deleting an object
that has been annotated in Drafting will no longer delete
the annotation text if the toggle is set to 'Off'.
- Administrator - Convert Previous Projects. Microstation
users only. When converting version 5.5 surface models,
the Min and Max Elevation settings are being converted
correctly.
- Administrator - Convert Previous Projects. An error check
was added to allow the conversion of a previous project
that has some or all of the files marked as 'Read Only'.
- COGO - Point Protection dialog box. Setting the toggle to
disable point protection now sets the project point
protection to disabled. To enable Point Protection again,
use the System -> Formats command and set the Point
Protection toggle 'on' for the Nodes category.
- COGO - Construct Through Nodes. The range option for this
command now works when using an additional drawing and
attaching to an external node database populated with
nodes from a different drawing.
- COGO - Field Data Traverse. The default Absolute
Elevation is now being read from the COGO Entry Options -
Node Placement settings.
- COGO - Translate-Rotate-Scale. The Select Object(s)
dialog box now properly enables/disables the Back and
Next buttons for additional selections.
- Drafting - Annotation Settings. The Annotate Curve and
Annotate Line commands now follow changes to the current
annotation style when using the Annotation Style Library
buttons from each dialog. This also includes changing the
leader options from each dialog.
- Drafting - Alignment Annotation. When dynamic annotation
updates the alignment text, the default CAD settings are
used to place the text rather than the current textstyle.
- Drafting - Change Elevation. Using the PIC button more
than once on the same object during one session of this
command, no longer places duplicate entities at the new
elevation.
- Drafting - Swivel. This command now allows for multiple
selection for text entities.
- Profiles - Draw Pipes. Using any of the 'Slope' Input
Types with the Crown Elevation toggle on, now result in
the correct grade being annotated.
- RoadCalc - Conversion of EP14 Alignments. AutoCAD users
only. Previously, if ROW alignment data files existed but
contained no PI data, the conversion would cause and
AutoCAD exception. This problem has been resolved.
- RoadCalc - Edit Alignment Data. When changing an
asymmetrical Spiral Out length to match the Spiral In
length, the Ts value on the spiral out is being updated
properly.
- RoadCalc - Manage Utilities. Changing the CAD settings
for more than one utility will redraw all the affected
utilities in plan view.
- RoadCalc - Offset Alignment. Creating an offset of an
alignment with unequal transition spiral lengths no
longer terminates when it reaches a spiral.
- RoadCalc - Extract Cross-Sections from Surface Model.
This command has been updated to extract shots out to the
corridor edge even when the cross-sections pass through
void regions.
- RoadCalc - Edit Profile Data. After selecting the View
Profile Graphics button, selecting the Close button while
the profile is redrawing no longer produces a Windows
Exception.
- RoadCalc - Run Design. A change made in the 99V/2000H
patch caused a problem with processing ROW Type 2 slopes.
This problem has been rectified.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets. Changes were made to
the reading/writing of the RCPPL###.DAT data file so that
occasional loss of the sheet listing no longer occurs.
This only occurred when the sub-project number was the
same as the sheet format default number.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets. Creating sheets with
only original ground profiles will no longer "hang"
during sheet generation.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets. AutoCAD 2000 MDI
users. When creating sheets AutoCAD may prompt you to
perform a Full Demand load. Previously, this prompt box
could be hidden behind the Plan and Profile Sheets dialog
box. AutoCAD now receives focus so you may select the OK
button.
- RoadCalc - Actual Surface Volumes. A change made in the
99W/2000I patch caused actual volumes to not report the
data for all surfaces. This problem has been resolved.
- RoadCalc - Mass Diagram Sheets. The Compaction Factor is
now being reported properly in the Mass Diagram Table.
- Sewers - Hydraulic Profile. A change was made to ensure
that the placement of the first junction was correct when
using a reference alignment.
- Sewers - Plan and Profile Sheets. Changes were made to
the reading/writing of the STPPL###.DAT (SSPPL###.DAT)
data file so that occasional loss of the sheet listing no
longer occurs. This only occurred when the sub-project
number was the same as the sheet format default number.
- Storm Sewers - The printout of the HEC-22 results when
using a combo inlet, now report the proper labels for
Horizontal and Vertical Throat Types.
- Storm Sewers - Calculation Results. The Time of
Concentration calculation is now calculated properly
taking the flow time through the pipe into account.
- Site Design - 3D Feature Editor. When editing the grade/elevations
of the last leg of a closed object, the object remains as
a closed object. This allows slope projections to "sweep"
through the last/first point of the object.
- Site Design - Print Volume Verification Report. The
numbered triangles in the report now begin their
numbering at 0, rather than 1.
- Surface Modeling - Import ASCII File. Shots missing
decimal points for coordinates are no longer being
ignored. This change also affects the use of an external
ASCII point file when triangulating.
- Surface Modeling - Breaklines consisting of arcs that
only have one node at elevation will now be ignored
during triangulation.
- Surface Modeling - Place Triangles. This command has been
updated to allow for the placing of triangles from a
surface model from another project when the current
project has no models created.
- Surface Modeling - Weeded objects are now being placed on
the CAD layer/level of the original objects selected.
- Surface Modeling - Merge Surface Models. Merging multiple
surface models now allows for the selection of a user-defined
boundary.
- Surface Modeling - Place Grid Elevation Labels. AutoCAD
users. When using a textstyle other than STANDARD, the
grid elevation labels would not appear. This problem has
been resolved.
- Water Surface Profiling - Convert Objects to Alignments.
After adding cross-section alignments to the Manage
Alignments dialog box and entering an approximate stream
station, if the conversion of alignments did not follow
the same order as they were added, the listing of
alignments would be out of order. This problem has been
fixed.
- Water Surface Profiling - Annotate Cross-Sections. The
text placement has been updated to be on the correct side
of a cross-section alignment when the stream alignment
runs South to North.
- Landscape Design - Fixed the Plant Audit command common
and code name edit fields. These fields will now display
the data based upon the scientific name selected.
- Landscape Design - Fixed the Tree shadow’s boundary
and hatching. The tree shadow boundaries are drawn as a
closed entities. The closing of the entities allows for
the hatch to be correctly placed in CAD.
- Landscape Design - Updated all of the Dialogs to allow
for the easy selection/picking in CAD. The dialogs will
disappear when interacting with CAD. They will reappear
when done selecting or upon cancelling the command. This
will allow for easier interaction with CAD.
- Landscape Design - Updated code to increase the
synchronization of CAD with Eagle Point when interacting
between the two programs. This will provide a more secure
measure for storing the data on the objects placed into
CAD.
- Landscape Design - Resolved issue with VIP version of
Locate Plants & 2d plant symbols -> It now scales
properly when inserting.
- Irrigation Module - Updated the Edge Locate command to
place the correct number of heads along a line when
evenly spacing. Previous versions added an extra head to
the line, causing the coverage to tighten up.
- Irrigation Module - Updated Drip Subsurface command to
place the equipment placed into cad into the Irrigation
Equipment table. Previous versions ignored the equipment.
- Irrigation Module - Updated all of the Irrigation dialogs
to include labels to the edit fields to display the field’s
unit value.
- Irrigation Module - Update the Drip Emitters unit label
in the Irrigation table to display correctly when
reporting in a metric drawing.
- Irrigation Module - Updated Global Assignment dialog for
the Head database editor to display the active fields on
default.
- Irrigation Module - Updated the Locate Single dialog to
allow for an expandable/shrinkable dialog to display the
fields for the currently selected nozzle pattern.
- Irrigation Module - Updated Irrigation Design
Distribution Dynamic Query to show 0.0 for a value when
tracking outside of the coverage area. Previous version
displayed the current elevation value.
- Irrigation Module - Updated the interface for Drip
subsurface command to allow the user to continue on when
cancelling the action to draw a header/footer in CAD.
- Irrigation Module - Updated all of the Dialogs to allow
for the easy selection/picking in CAD. The dialogs will
disappear when interacting with CAD. They will reappear
when done selecting or upon cancelling the command. This
will allow for easier interaction with CAD.
- Irrigation Module - Updated code to increase the
synchronization of CAD with Eagle Point when interacting
between the two programs. This will provide a more secure
measure for storing the data on the objects placed into
CAD.
- Irrigation Module - Added cancel option to Auto size
lateral - when locating valve
- Irrigation Module - Resolved issue with duplicate pipes
being placed with Auto Locate Pipe - along the trunk of
the lateral
- Irrigation Module - Resolved issue of updating combo box
on Auto Locate Pipe after defining multiple zones with
the define button
- Plant Database Module - Added text to the Plant Growth
Page to indicate the plant type.
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
The following features have been added to Eagle Point Software:
- Drafting - Additional Annotation Shortcuts have been
added for AutoCAD, IntelliCAD and Eagle Point Graphics
Engine users. Like the previous annotation shortcuts,
these are alternative commands that do not use a dialog
box user interface for annotating objects in CAD and
thereby reduce the number of steps involved in annotating.
Five new commands add the leadering capability when
annotating lines and curves and two new commands allow
for coordinate annotation. The leader commands provide a
temporary display of a "bounding box" that
approximates the size of the annotation text that will be
inserted. The "Annotation Tools.mns" file is
provided in the ...\EGPT\PROGRAM folder and has been
updated to include the new icons and shortcut tools. The
contents of the MNS file can be added to the end of the
toolbar section of your current menu file. Refer to the
On-line Help topic "Annotation Shortcuts" for
additional information on the previously released
commands and on customizing the annotation toolbar.
- llo - Annotate Line Leadered by Object
- llp - Annotate Line Leadered by Points
- clo - Annotate Curve Leadered by Object
- clpoc - Annotate Curve Leadered by 3 Points (PC,
POC, PT)
- clrp - Annotate Curve Leadered by 3 Points (PC,
RP, PT)
- crd - Annotate Coordinates
- crdl - Annotate Leadered Coordinates
- RoadCalc - A new command called Annotate Cross-Sections
has been added to the Cross-Section menu. This command
gives you the ability to annotate the cross-section
number and station next to the cross-section line drawn
in plan view. You can place the section number, station
or both next to the cross-section line. You additionally
control the CAD settings for the cross-section lines and
the annotation text.
The following problems have been fixed in Eagle Point Software:
- System - Microstation users only. Opening a design file
using the Microstation File-Open command while in an
Eagle Point project design file, no longer causes an MDL
abort.
- COGO - Create Lot. AutoCAD 2000 users. When using
drawings that are AutoCAD version 12 DWG format, newly
created lots are not recognized within the current
session of Eagle Point when these drawings are saved
directly to version 2000 DWG format. Save the drawing as
R14 once, then newly created lots are available for use
within all future sessions.
- COGO - Zoom to Node. Microstation users only. The active
depth is now held after running this command. This
affects other "zoom to" commands within Eagle
Point (RoadCalc - Zoom to PI, Zoom to VPI, Sewers -
Center Junction, Surface Modeling - Show Crossing
Breaklines).
- COGO - Swivel Nodes. The relative rotation option is now
functioning properly when executed more than once within
a drawing that has a view rotation specified.
- COGO - Snap Nodes to Object. This command would not place
nodes onto closed objects when an arc with a delta angle
of 180 degrees was in the selection set. This problem has
been resolved.
- COGO - Report Nodes. AutoCAD/IntelliCAD users only.
Additional checking was added to this command when
selecting nodes in projects converted from version EP14
to display the Node ID, Field Code and Descriptions
properly. Previously, some projects would only report
Northing, Easting and Elevation data.
- COGO - Draw through Nodes. A change was made to this
command to allow you to change the starting point back to
the original starting Node. For example, you can now
start at Node ID 1, draw to Node ID 2 and then change the
starting Node ID back to 1 to draw to Node ID 3.
- COGO - Leader Nodes. This command now follows the view
rotation angle set for the drawing.
- COGO - Parking Lot commands. Microstation users only. The
CAD settings are now being saved and used properly.
- Data Collection - Use Field Code as Line Name. The
default designator for inserting descriptions (*) can now
be used when coding linework using the Field Code as Line
Name option.
- Data Collection - Designators. You may now place special
designators and the end of the Field Codes such as stop
designators, close designators, and command line
indicators to properly affect the construction of line
work. These Field Codes will also work with traditionally-coded
line work that hasn't been toggled for the Use Field Code
as Line Name option. Cross-Section Patterning is not
supported with the Use Field Code as Line Name option.
- Drafting - Create Curve Tables. AutoCAD 14/Map 2/Map 3
users. Creating line tables of previously annotated lines
works properly when switching between projects.
- Drafting - Insert Coordinate Grid. Microstation users
only. The northing/easting values in a design file with a
global origin shift are now annotated with the correct
values.
- Drafting - Insert Symbols from Library. Adding symbols to
a group no longer disables the Scale option on the
Settings dialog box.
- Drafting - Change Elevation. Microstation users only.
When changing elevations of cells not found in the
current cell library, this command now continues changing
all the elements it can. To change elevation of the cells
not raised/lowered, attach the appropriate cell library
and change elevation on the just the cells.
- RoadCalc - Alignment PI Stationing. The PI station
reported on the Edit Curve dialog box was incorrectly
being reported as the station at the midpoint of the
active curve (in 99V/2000H patch). It is now reporting
the station at the PI location. This also corrects a
problem with the annotation of the PI in Plan and Profile
sheets.
- RoadCalc - Extract Profile from Surface Model. Additional
error checking was added to allow the selection of a
surface model from another project that was a higher
number than those in the current project.
- RoadCalc - New Typical Section. The Extended Description
field now has a vertical scroll bar that allows you to
enter a description larger than the size of the text box.
- RoadCalc - Construct Typical Section. Defining a typical
section with only a subgrade and undercut type surface
will now define the subgrade surface correctly.
- RoadCalc - Run Design. When more than one bench slope is
specified to be used as a material slope, the first bench
pattern is now being applied properly.
- RoadCalc - Run Design. Low Side rollover superelevation
parameters are being applied during processing for
superelevated typical sections when going around a curve
to the left.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets. Microstation users
only. Additional error checking was added so that when
the path to a reference file exceeds the Microstation
limit of 65 characters, Eagle Point attempts to reference
the design files using the shortened "8.3"
convention.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets. The profile portion
of the sheet that follows a gap station equation, is now
attached and annotated properly.
- RoadCalc - Breaklines from PT Codes and Catchlines. These
commands place the vertex points of the lines in CAD,
accounting for gap station equations.
- RoadCalc - Catchlines. A new toggle was added to erase or
keep existing catchlines. Note that catchlines created
using previous releases cannot be erased by this toggle.
Only catchlines created using this or future releases can
be erased by this option.
- RoadCalc - 3D Faces. Microstation users only. You no
longer need to open the CAD Settings dialog box and apply
the settings in order for the 3D Faces to use the correct
CAD settings.
- RoadCalc - Adjustment Volumes. Changes were made to
adjustment volumes to account for having more than one
adjustment entry at the same station. Also, adjustment
entries at non-cross-section stations are now shown in
the volumes report at the station specified, rather than
the next closest station. If more than one entry occurs
at a station, they are totaled up and shown as one
adjustment volume. By adding the adjustment to the volume
report dialog box, this also fixed a problem when
determining Mass (Compacted) volumes.
- RoadCalc - Volume Settings. The "Adjust for
Horizontal Curves" toggle now follows all station
equations entered for the sub-project.
- RoadCalc - Balance Point Volumes. The printout of the
balance point data now matches the results on the dialog
box when station equations are used.
- Sewers - A new item "Invert Slope (Plan Length)"
was added to the Details dialog box and the Custom
Reports command that reports the Invert Slope between
structures using the horizontal distance between the
centers of the junctions. This item is in addition to the
original Invert Slope reported that uses the edge-to-edge,
pipe plan length. Also, the printout of the HGL and EGL
Slopes in Custom Reports now uses the edge-to-edge, pipe
plan length.
- Sewers - Create Hydraulic Reach. Storm and Sanitary
reaches can now be defined with the same Profile
Coordinate System in your plan view. Previously, only one
type of network (Storm or Sanitary) could be placed
within the same drawing/design file.
- Sewers - Design Settings. Using the Iterate Pipe Design
to Minimize Size toggle when designing invert elevations
with set invert elevations downstream will no longer
produce invert and pipe dimensions of -999 (or -11988).
- Sewers - Calculation Comments. Changes were made to this
command so as to not report warnings about super critical
flow when it didn't exist.
- Storm Sewers - HEC-22 Calculator. The Apply button
enables properly when modifying parameters on the Combo
Curb & Grate Inlet tab dialog box.
- Storm Sewers - Edit Flows. You are now able to specify
higher inlet numbers to drain to when the inlets are in
separate reaches within the network.
- Site Design - 3D Offset. Microstation users only. The
offset command was changed to prevent offset lines from
being "chorded" when offsetting 3D curves. This
change also affects the Assign Grade to Object and
Interpolate Additional Geometry commands.
- Site Design - Project Slopes to Constant Elevation.
Changes were made to account for projections to a
constant elevation. Previously, small, closed feature
lines could not project to very deep constant elevations.
Also, you can enter decimal elevation values.
- Site Design - Project Slopes to Catchline. Projecting
slopes from a closed object with arcs to a closed
catchline with arcs properly ties the slope projections.
- Site Design - Transition Slopes Around Corner/Transition
Slopes Along Object. The number of UNDO commands required
after running these command has been reduced.
- Site Design - Calculate Prismoidal Volumes. The Use
Compaction Factor toggle now disables and removes the
compaction from the volume results when it is toggled off.
- Site Design - Calculate Prismoidal Volumes. When
calculating volumes using a boundary, the boundary line
can contain more than 100 verticies. Previously,
boundaries of 100 or more verticies caused a Windows
Exception to occur.
- Site Design - AutoCAD users only. Flow Hachures now
support Eagle Point Contour Objects.
- Surface Modeling - Merge Surface Models. You can now
select the same numbered surface model from two different
projects when running this command.
- Surface Modeling - Join Broken Contours. This command was
changed to allow the selection of an entire drawing/design
file without producing a Windows Exception.
- Surface Modeling - Crossing Breaklines. This command was
modified to account for polylines/linestrings that begin
with arc segments. Previously they would produce a
crossing breakline situation.
- Survey Adjustment - Print Adjustments. You can now choose
to only print the Traverse or Sideshot information by
using the Cancel button on the respective Print Settings
dialog boxes.
- Water Surface Profiling - Extract Cross-Sections from
Surface Model. You are now able to extract cross-sections
from a surface model from another project.
- Landscape Design - Fixed the Plant Audit command common
and code name edit fields. These fields will now display
the data based upon the scientific name selected.
- Landscape Design - Fixed the Tree shadow’s boundary
and hatching. The tree shadow boundaries are drawn as
closed entities. The closing of the entities allows for
the hatch to be correctly placed in CAD.
- Landscape Design - Updated all of the dialogs to allow
for the easy selection/picking in CAD. The dialogs will
disappear when interacting with CAD. They will reappear
when done selecting or upon canceling the command. This
will allow for easier interaction with CAD.
- Landscape Design - Updated code to increase the
synchronization of CAD with Eagle Point when interacting
between the two programs. This will provide a more secure
measure for storing the data on the objects placed into
CAD.
- Irrigation Design - Updated the Edge Locate command to
place the correct number of heads along a line when
evenly spacing. Previous versions added an extra head to
the line, causing the coverage to tighten up.
- Irrigation Design - Updated Drip Subsurface command to
place the equipment placed into CAD into the Irrigation
Equipment table. Previous versions ignored the equipment.
- Irrigation Design - Updated all of the Irrigation dialogs
to include labels to the edit fields to display the field’s
unit value.
- Irrigation Design - Update the Drip Emitters unit label
in the Irrigation table to display correctly when
reporting in a metric drawing.
- Irrigation Design - Updated Global Assignment dialog for
the Head database editor to display the active fields on
default.
- Irrigation Design - Updated the Locate Single dialog to
allow for an expandable/shrinkable dialog to display the
fields for the currently selected nozzle pattern.
- Irrigation Design - Updated Irrigation Design
Distribution Dynamic Query to show 0.0 for a value when
tracking outside of the coverage area. Previous versions
displayed the current elevation value.
- Irrigation Design - Updated the interface for Drip
subsurface command to allow the user to continue on when
canceling the action to draw a header/footer in CAD.
- Irrigation Design - Updated all of the dialogs to allow
for the easy selection/picking in CAD. The dialogs will
disappear when interacting with CAD. They will reappear
when done selecting or upon canceling the command. This
will allow for easier interaction with CAD.
- Irrigation Design - Updated code to increase the
synchronization of CAD with Eagle Point when interacting
between the two programs. This will provide a more secure
measure for storing the data on the objects placed into
CAD.
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
The following features have been added to Eagle Point Software:
- Sewers - A toggle was added called "Iterate Pipe
Design to Minimize Size" to the Design Settings
dialog box in both Storm and Sanitary Sewer modules. When
toggled on, this option optimizes the pipe sizes that are
being designed. Previously, if both the pipe inverts and
pipe sizes were being designed, the calculation routine
would tend to oversize the pipes. Toggling on this option
will eliminate the over-sizing.
The following problems have been fixed in Eagle Point Software:
- System - AutoCAD 14, Map2, Map3 users only. Using the
AutoCAD OFFSET command on Eagle Point Alignments and then
EXPLODING the offset line would cause the individual
exploded elements to contain the same alignment data as
the original. While running Eagle Point, this intelligent
data is now stripped from all segments of the offset line
upon finishing the OFFSET command.
- System - AutoCAD/IntelliCAD users only. Using the OFFSET
command on alignments outside of the Eagle Point
environment leaves duplicate alignment data on the offset
lines causing the Synchronize Alignments dialog to appear
when opening the project. Use the Update Graphic option
to redraw the original alignment and then type the UNLINK
command on the command line and select the offset line(s)
to strip the intelligent data.
- System - Microstation users only. Copying the additional
symbol placed with the node no longer causes and MDL
abort. This process generally also produced the "Error:
Building EPOD Tree failed!" message upon re-opening
the project. This problem has been resolved as well.
- System - Microstation users only. Copying a Node or
Alignment in a design file while not running Eagle Point
would produce the "Error: Building EPOD Tree failed!"
message when that project was re-opened in Eagle Point.
This message will now be replaced by the Synchronize
Nodes (or Synchronize Alignments) dialog boxes to allow
you to correct the duplication of Eagle Point objects.
- System - AutoCAD Map 3.0 users only. Users who
experienced difficulties launching AutoCAD Map 3.0 from
within Eagle Point need to rename a system DLL that was
installed to the AutoCAD Map location during the Map 3.0
installation. In the same directory where the ACAD.EXE
file resides for AutoCAD Map 3.0, rename the MFC42.DLL to
MFC42.BAK. This ensures that the proper version of this
DLL is loaded when running AutoCAD Map 3.0.
- System - Alignment Synchronization. The Details dialog
box on the Synchronize Alignments command now highlights
the first line that differs between the comparison
windows.
- System - File Properties. The Filters toggle on the
History tab page no longer causes a Windows System Fault.
- System - Copy Sub-project. Copying RoadCalc sub-projects
to other directories now copies the alignment data
correctly. Copying Sub-projects within the same project
now appends the alignment database with copies of the
pertinent alignment data.
- System - Open. Instance ID 1007. This error message is
generally caused when the project.epp file is empty.
Additional error checks were added to prevent this file
from being "emptied".
- COGO - Stakeout Points. The Backsight Node Elevation is
now being printed with the proper elevation instead of 0
(zero).
- COGO - The Resolve Duplicate Nodes command now
immediately recognizes duplicate node instances when
placed during a Data Collection reduction.
- COGO - Report Area. This command now reports the Node ID
for all curve keypoints. Previously, if a keypoint did
not have a Node placed at it, subsequent Node ID's at
curve keypoints were reported as 'N/A'.
- COGO - Inscribe Curve. When using the POC option to place
the inscribed curve, both CW and CCW curves can now be
placed.
- COGO - Translate-Rotate-Scale. The Scale factor tolerance
has been changed to 0.00000001 to allow scale factors to
be used that are very near to 1 (i.e. 0.99999467).
Previously the tolerance was set to 0.0001.
- COGO - Snap Nodes to Object. When the selected objects
include arcs that are 180 degrees, this command would
terminate prematurely and not all Nodes would be placed.
This problem has been rectified.
- Data Collection - When drawing 3D linework with arcs and
the line name does not exist in the Line Library, the POC
shot is now being connected with the rest of the line.
- Drafting - AutoCAD users only. Curve, Line and Spiral
annotation using the leader option now properly places
the text into the drawing.
- Drafting - Creating Line and Curve Tables after labeling
polylines/linestrings using the multiple option no longer
produces a Windows Exception Error.
- Intersection Design - Non-intersecting RoadCalc
alignments may be selected when defining an intersection.
This allows for using it for interchange design where on
and off ramps do not tie into other road centerlines.
- Intersection Design - New Intersection. You can now use
the Next button on page two of the New Intersection
command without having to use the Select option.
- Intersection Design - Project Objects to Intersection
Model. Nodes are now valid objects to project to the
intersection surface model.
- Profiles - Construct Profile from Surface Model. Issuing
this command while in the plan drawing with a View
Rotation set, no longer applies that view rotation to the
profile as it is drawn in the RoadCalc profile drawing.
- Profiles - Construct Profile from Object. The profile now
appears in the correct station location when using a
Right to Left Profile Coordinate system in your plan view.
- RoadCalc - Edit Alignment Data. When viewing secondary
alignments, the station values for the portions of the
secondary alignment that extend beyond the Centerline are
interpolated using the back and forward tangent
directions depending on if the station is prior to or
after the alignment.
- RoadCalc - Edit Alignment Data. Alignments with unequal
spiral lengths on the same curve (spiral in vs. spiral
out), now properly report the spiral parameters to match
the coordinates of the TS, SC, CS, ST locations.
- RoadCalc - Horizontal Speed Tables. After adding a new
speed table, the Superelevation Calculator no longer
saves your calculation results to the first speed table.
Only the selected speed table gets the new parameters.
- RoadCalc - Synchronize Alignments. When the graphic
alignment no longer exists but the alignment data does,
choosing to update the data from the graphic (delete the
data) now removes the data form the Edit Alignment Data
dialog box without having to close and re-open your
RoadCalc sub-project.
- RoadCalc - Manage Surfaces - Delete. Deleting a surface
that contains no data, no longer terminates Eagle Point.
- RoadCalc - Edit Cross-Section Data - Modify Shot. The
slope value now has the correct signage when modifying a
shot using the Slope/Distance method. This also resolves
the elevation being improperly calculated.
- RoadCalc - Extract Cross-Sections from Surface Model. You
can now extract cross-sections from a surface model in
another project when your current project has no valid
surface models.
- RoadCalc - Extract Cross-Sections from Surface Model. The
User-defined from drawing option no longer mirrors cross-section
shots on portions of your alignment that run due EAST or
due WEST.
- RoadCalc - Generate Existing Pavement Sub-surfaces. Non-zero
BOP alignments now properly generate the existing
pavement sub-surface when using alignments to control the
offset values.
- RoadCalc - View Cross-Section. When graphically editing a
slope to be perfectly vertical RoadCalc no longer throws
out the second occurrence of the duplicated offset.
- RoadCalc - Manage Typical Sections. When copying typical
sections with extended descriptions that contain commas,
the description is no longer getting truncated at the
comma.
- RoadCalc - New Condition Tables. Entering more than one
Material slope in a condition table no longer produces a
Windows Exception Error when running the design.
- RoadCalc - Run Design. When using Benching slopes,
RoadCalc now processes the final tie slope vertically at
the corridor edge when the bench pattern would not have
tied into original ground.
- RoadCalc - Run Design. The Change Scales command on the
Step Through Processing dialog box now reads and writes
the values to the same settings as the Query Cross-Section
command.
- RoadCalc - PT Code Library. You are now able to add more
than 57 user-defined PT Codes.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets - Offsets/Elevations.
When annotating the offset/elevation for PT Code 1 (Centerline)
only the topmost surface is annotated.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets - Reference Lines. More
than one reference line can be saved at one time.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets. Alignments with a
negative BOP now round the starting station value down to
the lower even station interval when creating sheets (i.e.
BOP -0+20, the sheet begins at -1+00 with a 100 interval).
- RoadCalc - Adjust Plan and Profile Sheets - AutoCAD 14
users only. Making adjustment no longer produces the
AutoCAD ARX exception.
- RoadCalc - Mass Diagram Sheets. The Balance line is now
being drawn at the proper location on the sheet.
- RoadCalc - Mass Diagram Sheets. The Horizontal Curve
Correction setting is now being used for the Mass
Ordinate calculations.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. When using Zero Volume zones (with no
transition distances), the end area of the zone ending
station is now being included in the volume report.
- RoadCalc - Station and Coordinates. You may now enter a
station interval smaller than 0.5 (the limit is now 0.0001).
- RoadCalc - Station and Coordinates. Station equations are
properly being applied when adding your own user-defined
station. Additionally, the equation stations are
automatically added to the list and have a label of 'EQ'.
- RoadCalc - Sub-project Prototypes. Newly added Mass
Diagram format defaults will now appear in the New Sub-project
prototype dialog box.
- Sewers - Storm and Sanitary Sewers have a new Minimum
Slope edit field in the Design Settings dialog box. This
new setting will allow you to set an absolute minimum
pipe slope that can be used when Eagle Point designs the
network. The slope is entered in ft/ft or m/m.
- Sewer - Hydraulic Profile. The HGL and EGL lines are now
drawn properly when using a reference alignment that
causes the reach to double back on itself.
- Storm Sewers - Calculation Details. The Depth of Curb
reported in this dialog box had the units misreported for
English unit projects. The depth is now reported in
Inches.
- Site Design - 3D Offset. This command can now properly
offset objects that have been created using the Assign
Grade to Object or Interpolate Additional Geometry
commands.
- Site Design - Project Slopes to Surface Model. Running
this command twice on the same feature line (without
closing the module) no longer produces invalid
projections the second time.
- Site Design - Project Slopes to Surface Model. You can
project slopes to a surface model in another project when
your current project has no valid surface models.
- Site Design - Project Plan Objects. Nodes are no longer
deleted when selected to project.
- Site Design - Project Plan Objects. AutoCAD/IntelliCAD
users only. Point elements are now valid objects to
project to a surface model.
- Site Design - Calculate Prismoidal Volumes. You are now
able to select two different models from two different
projects when using this command.
- Surface Modeling - Place Triangles. A new toggle was
added to allow you to import the Surface Model triangles
at an exaggerated elevation stretch. When toggled on, the
value in the vertical stretch edit field is used as a
multiplier for the elevations of the triangles. AutoCAD
users can only use this option when the Construction
Method for the Surface Model triangles is set to Faces.
- Surface Modeling - Make Contours. The Use Screen Display
option now properly accounts for rotated views.
- Surface Modeling - Triangulate Surface Model. Additional
error checking has been added to Select Boundary option
to check for boundaries that "double back" on
themselves.
- Base Plan - Base Plan multi-scale now keeps QTO data and
IR head data and discards plant mix data.
- Irrigation Design - Updated the boundary code for
Irrigation Zones to be able to correctly calculate the
area for selected heads. This fixes the bug "Unable
to calculate area in zone".
- Landscape Design - Updated boundary code to fix Landscape
Design Tree shadows. New code will close & hatch the
boundary areas correctly.
- Symbols Manager - Fixed the OpenGL preview to prevent it
from locking up on certain symbols -> symbols that had
arcs - or extruded arcs. This will impact the symbols
manager & the open dialog preview - as well as many
other locations that use the opengl window.
- Landscape Design - Updated the Plant Audit code to fix
the bug on corrupting the plant data that has been
audited. This bug caused the symbols to remain in the
drawing even after the new plants had been added. This
gave the appearance that the symbols hadn't been updated
yet- because the old symbols that remained would
highlight behind the newly audited plants.
- Plant Database - Updated Plant Database code for Plant
Sizes to allow for duplicate Code Names - but not
duplicate code names & plant sizes.
- Plant Database - Added code to update the plant database
to display the plant sizes correctly when updating the
plant sizes using modify, add & delete ->
especially newly created plant sizes. Before duplicates
could arise - or new ones could simply just disappear.
- Plant Database - Added code to introduce the new plant
locate for VIP customers.
- Plant Database - Fixed bug for Plant Database &
deleting plants. Deleting a plant with multiple
scientific names could cause a repetitive loop if the
plant sizes resided on a plant lower in the list. This
would cause the delete marker to reindex back to the
first plant record & start all over. This fix safely
deletes all of the plants without updating the plant
index marker.
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
The following features have been added to Eagle Point Software:
- Data Transfer - A new file translator has been added to
the Import and Export command to support the CAiCE SRV
file format. This new format is capable of placing points,
nodes and/or lines into a drawing or exporting them to
the SRV file format from the drawing. This new format
will only appear after installing from the 2000 Q3, 2000
G or 99 U CD.
- Data Transfer and RoadCalc Import - A new file translator
has been added to the Data Transfer Import Data and
RoadCalc Import Cross-Section Data commands to support
the EMXS cross-section file format. This cross-section
format requires an alignment be defined before importing.
This new format will only appear after installing from
the 2000 Q3, 2000 G or 99 U CD.
- Site Design - A new button has been added to the 3
Project Slopes commands (To Surface Model, To Offset, To
Catchline) that enables you to erase slope projection
lines for individual objects that have slope projections.
By using the Erase by Selection button on these commands
you can select a slope line or catchline and all
associated slope, feature and catch lines are erased.
This preserves any slope projections that have been made
previously to other objects, whereas the Erase All toggle
removes all sets of slope projection, feature line and
catchlines that have been projected to the current
surface model. Only Slope Projections made with the 2000
Q3G release (or later) can be erased by selecting them.
The following problems have been fixed in Eagle Point Software:
- System - Preview Objects dialog boxes. The zooming and
panning controls on all Preview Objects dialog boxes have
been changed. The Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons have been
replaced with a Dynamic Zoom that works by selecting the
Dynamic Zoom icon and then clicking and holding down your
primary button on your Windows pointing device while
moving up or down in the preview area. Move the cursor up
to zoom in and down to zoom out. Zoom Window has been
added to allow you to pick two points that window the
desired objects to zoom in on. A Zoom Previous icon has
also been added to restore the previous views in the
objects. The Zoom Extents button remains. A Dynamic Pan
command has replaced the Two-point Pan and scroll bars.
Click the Dynamic Pan button and then click and hold down
your primary button on your Windows pointing device while
moving around the preview area. The command also
remembers the view perspective and settings during the
current session of Eagle Point.
- System - AutoCAD 14 users only. Additional error checking
was added to prevent the Rotate View Orientation command
from being issued while in Paper Space.
- Administrator - Microstation users only. Converting
version 4.2 metric projects now retain the Linear Units
setting.
- Administrator - Configure Eagle Point. When changing the
path to the Images folder, files in the \SUPPORT\RC, \SUPPORT\SS,
\SUPPORT\ST folders are now being updated to reflect the
new paths.
- COGO - Parking Lot commands. The CAD settings for this
command now use the settings established in the Site
Planning group within the Default CAD Settings command.
Additionally, the command options and settings are saved
per project.
- COGO - Report Area. You can now perform consecutive area
reports when using the By Points option.
- Data Collection - Reducing a file that has descriptions
with spaces no longer attempts to place line work when a
line designator is after the first space.
- Data Collection - Microstation users only. When printing
the Linework Library the header for the level column now
reads 'Level' instead of 'Layer'.
- Drafting - When using the Defined Alignments button for
the Annotate Stationing, Annotate Station/Offset, Insert
Symbol by Station/Offset and Write Legal Description
commands, alignments that share the same name but belong
to different sub-projects are properly used. Additional
error checking was added for the Defined Alignments
command when no alignments exist.
- Drafting - The tolerance for considering a direction to
be a Cardinal Direction has been changed from 20 seconds
to 1 second.
- RoadCalc - Offset Alignment. Error checking was added to
prevent the entry of a station prior to the BOP or after
the EOP of the chosen alignment.
- RoadCalc - Vertical Speed Tables. A change was made to
ensure that the speed reported for a designed curve that
was rated lower than the first entry in your active speed
table will be 'N/A'.
- RoadCalc - Dynamic Alignments that have unrestricted
zones start or stop where a cross-section location exists,
will now stretch typical sections properly.
- RoadCalc - Profiles that have the Parallel Original
Ground toggle set for any but the first VPI, now follow
the appropriate depth set on each VPI.
- RoadCalc - Step Through Processing. Additional error
checking was added when changing the slope offset to
ensure that it does not "double back" on the
typical section.
- Sewers - Extract Ground Profiles. You no longer receive
an error message when trying to use a surface model from
another project.
- Sewers - Design Settings. The 'Violate First' setting is
now being saved within each network.
- Sewers - Plan and Profile Sheets. You can now create a
hydraulic reach through a Y branch network.
- Sewers - Plan and Profile Sheets. When creating a
hydraulic profile right to left, the manhole annotation
no longer stacks in the opposite order. Also the most
upstream pipe is no longer drawn through its junction
structure.
- Sewers - Plan and Profile Sheets. When creating the grid
for a hydraulic profile, all of the text is now
considered in the sizing of the grid height.
- Sewers - Plan and Profile Sheets. Changes were made to
insert the pipe annotation correctly when changing the
placement options.
- Storm Sewers - Print Calculation Details. The Intercept
Efficiency of the Inlets that are of type "Undefined"
are no longer exceptionally large numbers.
- Surface Modeling - AutoCAD users only. When using the
Erase Existing Objects command on Eagle Point ARX Objects,
the Proxy graphics are also removed.
- Surface Modeling - AutoCAD 2000 users only. The Lines
Construction Method for Elevation Grids now places the
grid lines properly.
- Surface Modeling - The Place Spot Elevation Labels
command now uses the Text Style/Font established in the
CAD Settings command rather than using the active style/font.
- Surface Modeling - Triangulate Surface Model. The Build
File List dialog box properly reports the format chosen.
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
There are no VIP specific enhancements added to the software
in this patch.
The following problems have been fixed in Eagle Point Software:
- System - New Additional Drawing/Design File. After typing
the name of an existing drawing/design file a check is
made to ensure that the existing drawing is not
overwritten with the specified prototype. Also, if a
drawing/design file you are trying to add already exists
within the project, the error message now allows you to
change the name or exit the command properly.
- System - External Node Database. The Update Node
Information command now displays full precision when
showing coordinate differences on the 'Confirm New to
Target' and 'Confirm Change to Target' dialog boxes. Also,
the 'Coordinates Differ' dialog box shows full precision
when using a command that requires you to choose the
instance of a node.
- Data Collection - Microstation users only. Reducing Data
Collection jobs that use Microstation Custom lines no
longer requires the custom line(s) to be placed within
the design file prior to reduction.
- Data Collection - Reduce. Wild files coded with multiple
stop line designators on one shot, now produce linework
correctly through that shot.
- RoadCalc - Import Cross-Sections. When importing Cross-Section
type files (files referencing stationing rather than
coordinates), sub-projects with multiple station
equations will import the data correctly. If station
equations produce duplicate station occurrences, you will
be prompted as to what station instance the data belongs
to.
- RoadCalc - Define Typical Section. AutoCAD users only.
Lightweight polylines are now supported when you draw the
typical section geometry using CAD tools.
- RoadCalc - 3D Faces. A new button was added to this
dialog to have the 3D Faces CAD Settings inherit the
current CAD settings from the Manage Surfaces command.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. The Compaction Zones dialog box will
now list the proper surface names instead of 'TOP'.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. The New Adjustment Volume dialog box
will now list the proper surface names instead of 'TOP'.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. The Pay Units dialog box will now
list all design surfaces.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. The Balance Points dialog box now
takes the Freehaul distance into account when calculating
Overhaul.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. Sub-projects that require more fill
than available cut are now using the 'Ending % Compaction'
setting properly.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. Using Borrow Pits with compaction
factors now supersede the 'Ending % Compaction' setting
for the station range specified within the borrow pit.
You must also set the 'Compacted' toggle to No in your
borrow pit in order to see the compaction factor applied.
Setting it to Yes means compaction has already taken
place.
- Sewers - Modify Network. Changing the Plan Length of the
pipe no longer changes the confluence angle when the pipe
is redrawn.
- Site Design - Track Depths. You may now select the second
surface model from another project using the All Surface
Models button.
- Surface Modeling - Crossing Breaklines command. Changes
were made to this command so that lines/polylines drawn
on layers ending with a $X or $N are ignored when running
this command. This is similar to the check that is made
during the Triangulate Surface Model command.
- Surface Modeling - Breaklines. A change was made so that
lines that cross each other at the same elevation without
sharing a vertex, are internally seen as not crossing.
During Triangulation, a vertex is added to the lines so
that they are used as proper breaklines.
- Irrigation Design - The following changes were made to
Irrigation Design.
- New Heads database editor interface
- Assign by all quick assignment of QTO number to
head database
- Pre-assign Head graphic library via the heads
database
- Heads configuration now sizes head graphic by
plotted size
- Easy dynamic interface for selecting heads
manufacture and nozzle
- Improved locate on Edge routine. Added Corner
angle tolerance
- Improved autolocate routine
- Improved locate single - ADJ arc improvement and
auto disappearing dialog box
- Improved Modify heads that will allow for
coverage change and pressure modification
- Improved Pipe configuration - Now set fitting and
valve size via plotted size
- Landscape Design - New Plant mix interface.
- Plant Database - Improved error checking for
characteristics
- Quantity Takeoff - General improvements
- Stand Alone Graphics Engine - Changes were made to the
Stand Alone Graphics Engine which includes:
- Undo option now functioning
- Improved speed issues
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
There are no VIP specific enhancements added to the software
in this patch.
The following problems have been fixed in Eagle Point Software:
- System - Project and Sub-project Shortcuts. Using a
desktop shortcut to open Eagle Point projects and sub-projects
will now set the data files location correctly.
- System - Alignment Synchronization. A Details button was
added to the Synchronize Alignments dialog that displays
the inverse of alignment's graphic data and the numeric
data to help you determine which information should be
used to update the other. The two listboxes will "stay
in sync" with one another as you highlight specific
items in either list.
- System - Node Synchronization. Nodes on Locked layers
would previously cause the synchronize Nodes command to
display when opening drawings. This problem has been
remedied.
- System - Node (Field Code) Library. Microstation users
only. The make preview image command will now display the
previews properly when selecting a node at high
coordinates.
- System - Microstation users only. Changes were made to
prevent MDL aborts from occurring when opening converted
5.5 projects without converting the previous 5.5
installation.
- System - Node (Field Code) Library. IntelliCAD and Stand
Alone users. Specifying a rotation angle for node
attributes now rotates them appropriately.
- Administrator - The Convert Previous Projects command
will now convert version EDSC12 projects. The Convert
Previous Installation command also will convert this
version.
- Administrator - The Convert Previous Installation command
no longer uses the incorrect path for converting SUPPORT
files when your project library path is different than
the SUPPORT path.
- COGO - Move Nodes. A toggle was added to this command to
allow you to use the elevations of the objects you snap
to in CAD for your base point and displacement point.
- COGO - Inverse Alignment. The Alignment name and station
equations were added to the printed report.
- Data Collection - Additional error checking was added to
prevent you from adding two jobs with the same name. This
corrects a problem with the "Erase on Re-reduce"
option.
- Data Collection - Reduce. A change was made so that TDS
files that contain duplicate shots no longer overwrites
the Rod Height data on the shots between the duplicate
records.
- Data Collection - Reduce. Reducing Leica files with an
activity code of 09 no longer writes out an unsupported
SDMS tag. EC is used instead of ED.
- Data Collection - Manage. Changing the format of a job
now asks you if you want the formatted file to be rebuilt.
- Data Collection - Print Job. Jobs that are of the SDMS
collector type can now be printed from the Manage Jobs
and Query Backup commands.
- Data Collection - Multiple line coding is now supported
with the Use Field Code as Line Name feature in Data
Collection. You may now code up to four different lines
per shot, and these lines may be interchangeably toggled
with the 'Use Field Code as Line Name in Data Collection'
as ON or OFF.
- Drafting - IntelliCAD and Stand Alone users only. When
annotating lines with the 'Use Style's Height' option on
in CAD Settings, the above and below options are now
properly aligned.
- Drafting - Pattern Line. The text or symbols that get
placed are now properly aligned when a plan view rotation
is set.
- Profiles - Changes were made to many commands that
unnecessarily prompt you about duplicate station
instances when your profile coordinate system contains
overlap station equations.
- RoadCalc - Import Cross-Sections. A new option has been
added to the Import Cross-Section Settings dialog box
that allows you to import coordinate files as cross-section
data without having to use the 'N##+##' convention (where
##+## is a station value) outlined in the user manual.
You can now specify the interval at which the data was
shot and the tolerance within those interval stations
that you wish RoadCalc to import the data to. For example,
if your data when imported would have been at station 99+99.89
because of the coordinate precision, RoadCalc can
automatically adjust that to be station 100+00 if your
interval is set to a multiple of 10 and the tolerance was
set to something greater than 0.11. For stations that do
not lie "on interval", RoadCalc will gather up
all of those shots and present them to you in a dialog
box where you can multiple select them and assign them to
a specific station. This setting only affects coordinate
files and you must not use the 'N##+##' convention.
- RoadCalc - Offset Alignment. Changes were made to this
function to correct occasional instances where the offset
line would stop at the PC of some curves.
- RoadCalc - Utilities. Utilities that were offset from the
centerline at some stations but beyond the centerline at
others can now be seen in the profile views.
- RoadCalc - Extract Cross-Sections. The User-defined
boundary option is now calculating the offsets correctly
when the boundary lines are drawn at an elevation other
than 0.
- RoadCalc - Generate Subsurfaces. When generating existing
pavement cross-sections, the control stations are now
being created with the proper surface interpolation.
- RoadCalc - Generate Profile Reports. The dialog box no
longer closes when selecting the Apply button to allow
you to print more than one report at a time.
- RoadCalc - Profile Settings. The Sewer Reach list now
displays all sewer reaches that share right to left PCS
settings with RoadCalc. Also, toggling on to view the
reach when it was originally created in Sewers now sets
the toggles appropriately in RoadCalc.
- RoadCalc - Manage Condition Tables - Modify Condition.
Double clicking the Condition in the list to modify it
now stores your changes correctly.
- RoadCalc - Edit Design Locations. The Single Station
Occurrence option for typical section locations is now
being read correctly.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets. The last original
ground profile and design profile elevations on each
sheet are now positioned at their correct location.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets. Changing the Sheet
Length and Height values will now update the Sheet Lower
Left and Sheet Upper Right coordinates accordingly.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. Using the Enter key on the keyboard (rather
then clicking the Apply button) when Modifying Adjustment
volumes no longer produces a Windows Exception Error.
- RoadCalc - Stations and Coordinates. Additional error
checking was added to prevent zero from being the station
interval.
- Sewers - Locate Outfall, Create Network, Modify Network.
Changes were made to these commands to speed up the
coordinate tracking when inheriting elevations from a
surface model.
- Sewers - Import Network. Importing a .csv file that
contains an existing network will no longer set the pipes
to be designed if the pipe dimensions are specified.
- Sewers - Edit Pipes. The downstream invert elevation for
your first pipe is now set to the outfall invert
elevation by default.
- Sewers - Design Settings. The toggles for specifying the
pipe sizes to include/exclude for the design are now
being read.
- Sewers - Hydraulic Profiles. The profile graphic is now
drawn correctly when your sewer reach runs in the
opposite direction from your reference alignment.
- Sewers - Adjust Plan and Profile Sheets. Microstation
users only. Sheet adjustments will properly adjust the
reference files along with the annotation.
- Sanitary Sewers - Edit Flows/Forcemains. Pipe sizes no
longer show up as "Design" when you specify the
dimensions on this dialog box.
- Sanitary Sewers - Calculate. The New Flow Ratio dialog
box no longer labels the Peak Factor as GPD or LPD.
- Storm Sewers - Inlet Library. Metric project. The label
for Allowable Ponding Width have been changed to read
meters.
- Site Design - Project Slopes. Changes were made to speed
up the erasing of existing projection lines when
Projecting Slopes to a constant elevation.
- Site Design - Calculate Prismoidal Volumes. Calculating
volumes between a surface model and a constant elevation
with a user defined boundary no longer produces
inconsistent results.
- Surface Modeling - Raise/Lower Surface Model. This new
command was added to the Edit menu to change the
elevation of an entire surface model. Enter a relative
displacement elevation (positive or negative) to move the
model up or down. This command works similarly to the
Copy Surface Model command, however the model specified
is modified and not copied.
- Surface Modeling - Triangulate Surface Model from
Contours. Microstation users only. Changes were made to
this command to prevent occasional MDL aborts when
selecting objects.
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
The following features have been added to Eagle Point Software:
- Drawing Specific External Node Database files - A new
option has been added to the External Node Database
dialog box that allows you to link a different external
node database to each drawing/design file within a
project. The option 'Current Drawing uses Project
Database' means that the database file specified (including
the Read and Write settings) are established for the
entire project. When a drawing/design file is added to a
project, its option will default to 'Current Drawing uses
Project Database' meaning that the settings specified for
the project will be used for this drawing/design file.
Setting the option to 'Current Drawing uses own Database'
means that the file and settings established for the
current drawing/design file are specific to that drawing/design
file. Other drawings that use the project database are
unaffected. If you wish, other drawings/design files can
also use that database by setting them to use their own
database and linking to it. At any time you may establish
a different link without affecting the settings for the
original file that linked to this database. By allowing
each drawing/design file to have it's own settings you
may establish different external node databases that
contain certain nodes that only apply to individual
aspects or phases of the project.
- Surface Model Prototypes - A new command has been added
to the New and Modify Surface Model commands that allows
you to establish prototype settings for creating surface
models. The Surface Model Prototype Library button next
to the Surface Model Description on the New and Modify
Surface Model dialog box provides access to save and load
prototypes. The New Surface Model prototype command will
save all of the settings (including CAD settings)
established on the Surface Model, Contours, Elevation
Labels and Rectangular Grid Tab pages to a specified name
in the library. With those settings written to the
SUPPORT\SM folder, other projects can use the prototypes
established in any project. Creating prototypes for
different kinds of models can save time when adding new
models. Use the Load Format button on the Surface Model
Prototype Library to set all of the options and settings
for new or existing surface models. If you wish to change
a prototype to match the current surface model settings,
select the Save To button to overwrite your previous
settings in a particular prototype.
- Site Design Volume Verification - A new command has been
placed on the Calculate Prismoidal Volumes command that
prints out the individual triangle areas that contribute
to your current volume analysis. The report numbers the
individual surface model points and triangles for both
models used in the calculation and displays how much each
triangle contributes to the total cut and fill. This
command also allows you to annotate the point and
triangle numbers into CAD as references to the report.
This option is also available on the Balance Volumes
command.
The following problems have been fixed in Eagle Point Software:
- System - Dialog Box positions. Changes were made in how
the dialog box positions are determined. If you are using
the floating menu palettes, the dialog box commands will
cascade from the floating menu. If you are using the
Embedded CAD Menus option or if you are using the key-ins
for commands, the dialog boxes will cascade from the EGPT
main menu. The EGPT menu can also now be minimized while
running Eagle Point and all dialog boxes will display
cascaded from where the EGPT menu was last positioned. It
is recommended you position the EGPT main menu to the
left side of your screen and then minimize it so that the
dialog boxes can fully appear within your viewing area.
- System - Microstation users only. Changes were made to
the software to speed up the deletion of Eagle Point
objects from the design file.
- System - Microstation users only. The copy element
command no longer destroys the Enhanced Precision stored
on an element that has been "touched" by Eagle
Point.
- System - AutoCAD users only. The *Invalid* error that
appears on occasion during the external referencing
process has been fixed. This change will prevent this
problem from occurring during the creation of Plan and
Profile Sheets as well as running the XREF
command manually. This same fix also resolves Unhandled
Exception errors that sometimes occur when drawing files
are opened that contain Eagle Point Objects or Alignments.
- System - AutoCAD users only. Running the LINETYPE
command after placing Nodes and/or lines into a drawing
will no longer produce an AutoCAD Unhandled Exception
error.
- System - The DCA2EP command will now place the
EP Nodes on the same layers as the original DCA points.
The Node Field Code that is used for all converted DCA
points is the Field Code that is highlighted in the Node
(Field Code) Library dialog box at the time the DCA2EP
command is issued. Also note that all point and point
attribute layers should be ON, THAWED and UNLOCKED to
ensure the nodes are converted properly.
- System - The Open command will now properly display the
dialog box after issuing certain Drafting module commands.
- System - The EGPT Main menu will now retain it's last
screen position (instead of centering) after using the
Data Collection->Edit Instrument, DC->Edit Format
File, SA->Edit Active File or CG->Edit Batch File
commands.
- System - Printing. Various print commands in COGO,
Drafting and Site Design will no longer produce a Windows
error in projects with long project descriptions.
- System - Microstation users only. When placing Nodes into
a design file with a View Rotation angle set, the cell
now follows the setting to ensure the cell is "square
to the screen".
- System - Microstation SE users only. Placing Nodes with
the additional symbol option set in for your Field Code
no longer places an invalid cell header into your design
file.
- System - New Project. Specifying project paths greater
than 120 characters and opening that project successive
times, will no longer cause erratic behavior for the
Place Nodes command.
- System - The New Project command now allows you to select
an .epp file that uses Advanced Data Locations without
producing an .ifo error.
- System - Project Properties. The first line of the
project manifest will no longer display extended ASCII
characters when there are over 20 files in the list.
- System - Alignments. Performing a TRIM command on an
Eagle Point Alignment will now display the Synchronize
Alignments dialog box. To accept the change select the
Update Data button.
- Administrator - The Convert Previous Projects command no
longer creates the (null).set file.
- Administrator - After converting nodes from previous EP
versions, the inability to Report Nodes until the project
is opened a second time has been rectified.
- COGO - Save Settings as Default on Entry Options. A new
toggle was added to the Entry Options dialog box that
allows you to set the default settings for the Defaults,
Instrument, Node Placement, Mapcheck and Audit Trail
options for every project created from this point forward.
When toggled on, selecting the OK or Apply buttons will
write the current settings to the \SUPPORT\CG\DEFAULT.CG
file.
- COGO - Convert Objects to Alignment. The sequence of
prompts was changed to remove the extra "mouse
clicks" of selecting the Next button on the wizard
dialog box. Now, after selecting the Objects to convert
into an alignment, you will immediately be prompted to
pick the beginning point. After selecting the beginning
point you will immediately be prompted for the Alignment
Name and Stationing information.
- COGO - Zoom to Node. This command no longer resets the
Rotate View Orientation angle to zero. Also, with the
changes made to the dialog box positions, this command no
longer is placed at the center of the screen.
- COGO - Leader Attributes. After selecting the Apply
button, the dialog box will obey the Dialogs On Top
setting, sinking behind CAD when the option is toggled
off.
- COGO - Report Nodes. IntelliCAD and Stand Alone users
only. The Node ID field is no longer blank after
converting nodes from Pro-Surveyor projects.
- COGO - Create Lot Report. You may now use the Select Lots
button more than once.
- COGO - Report Area. The EP Boundary option now takes
alignments into consideration when determining boundaries.
- COGO - Inverse Points. AutoCAD/IntelliCAD/Stand Alone
users only. Using the By points option and an OSNAP
of PERPENDICULAR for the second point will now report the
inverse data appropriately.
- COGO - Inverse Points. Microstation users only. The
dialog now retains focus when using the Tab key to go
between Node ID fields.
- COGO - Construct Through Nodes. When using points only,
the end of line (curve) coordinate picked is now
automatically set as the start of line (curve) point when
the Apply button is selected.
- Data Collection - Use Line Name as Counter. When using
this option on files that contain no lines, the specified
field codes are now used in place of the Default Field
Code.
- Data Collection - Import ASCII File. Additional error
checking was added to prevent the use of a comma in the
job name. The comma is used as a delimiter and is not
valid to enter.
- Data Transfer - Import File. Choosing the Edit File
command on the Import File dialog box while using
Embedded CAD Menus no longer "hangs" Eagle
Point.
- Drafting - Import Text. This command now recognizes a 90-degree
Rotate View Orientation setting and imports the file
correctly.
- Drafting - Annotate Curve. The Delta symbol is now being
placed when you change the Rotate View Orientation
setting to something other than zero.
- Drafting - Create Alignment Table. Alignments that end
with an arc can now be tabled properly.
- Drafting - Create Node Table. The Rotate View Orientation
setting is now being taken into account when placing a
Node Table.
- Profiles - Draw Pipe Structure to Structure. The Default
CAD Settings are now being used for the pipe annotation.
- Profiles - Draw Custom Structure. This command has been
modified to work like the Draw Inlet and Draw Manhole
commands where entering Invert Elevations is no longer
necessary.
- RoadCalc - Edit Alignment Data. The Spiral Data for an
alignment with just a spiral out are now being reported
correctly.
- RoadCalc - Edit Alignment Data. Additional error checking
was added so a Dr. Watson error would not occur if you
change stationing data prior to entering any alignment
data.
- RoadCalc - Manage Alignments. Directly associating an
alignment to a sub-project that has the same name are
properly associated.
- RoadCalc - Alignment Reports. The printout of the TR out
superelevation parameter no longer uses the TR in
parameter.
- RoadCalc - Convert Objects to Alignment. The sequence of
prompts was changed to remove the extra "mouse
clicks" of selecting the Next button on the wizard
dialog box. Now, after selecting the Objects to convert
into an alignment, you will immediately be prompted to
pick the beginning point. After selecting the beginning
point you will immediately be prompted for the Alignment
Name and Stationing information.
- RoadCalc - Extract Cross-Sections. A modification was
made in this command to ensure that all shots including
the outermost corridor edge shots are extracted for cross-sections
when using surface models with steep terrain.
- RoadCalc - Microstation users only. The Extract Cross-Sections
command has been changed so that when extracting data
from a user-defined design file whatever is visible in
the design file is used. When extracting data from the
current loaded design file you still must place a fence
prior to selecting this option.
- RoadCalc - Import Cross-Sections. Changes where made to
the Geodimeter file format to make RoadCalc import a data
file similarly to the Data Transfer module.
- RoadCalc - Extract Profile from Surface Model. A new
option was added to allow you to not have to specify a
design profile for storing your profiles extracted from a
surface model. The default profile name of <None>
means the data for the profile will not be stored to file,
rather just the profile graphic will be drawn. This
change affects the loading time of profiles significantly.
Because the data is no longer stored, the validation of
the profile data is sped up dramatically. Realize that
profiles extracted and placed just graphically will NOT
dynamically update when scales or stationing change. The
command would need to be issued again.
- RoadCalc - Profile Speed Tables. Changes were made to the
way RoadCalc looked up design speeds in speed tables.
This solves problems with design speeds reporting back at
5-10 MPH less than the tables specify.
- RoadCalc - View Typical Section. This command now places
PT Codes in both the Cut and Fill Details of the typical
section when the drawing is reconstructed from the
numeric data.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. Undercut volumes are now
included in the volume annotation on all sheets.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. When setting your Fine
Grid lines to be half the distance of the Heavy Grid
lines and moving the sheet origin, the Fine Grid lines
are now aligned properly.
- RoadCalc - The Profiles from PT Code command will
properly construct profiles using the Station Range
option.
- RoadCalc - The command RCPROCE was added as a
key-in to reprocess all end area files. Use this command
if Volumes are reported as zero after processing typical
sections.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. The width of the various columns on
the Volumes dialog box are now stored to file so the next
time the dialog box is opened, the column widths are
restored to their last size. The Volume Type droplist is
also stored and remember the next time the Volumes dialog
box is opened. These settings are stored per sub-project.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. Seeding quantities are now reported
as Pavement Volumes.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. When using the Horizontal Curve
Correction toggle in sub-projects where the centroid of
the Design Earthwork is very close to the zero offset,
volumes will no longer be reported into the millions.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. The Use Zonal Compaction toggle now
properly controls whether compaction zones are used or
surface compaction factors are used.
- RoadCalc - Station and Coordinates. Changes were made to
correct the report when alignments with non-interval BOP
stations are specified.
- Sewers - Microstation users only. The text height option
for Pipe Annotation on the Network settings dialog box is
now being saved correctly.
- Sewers - Hydraulic Profile. When using a Right to Left
PCS the pipe annotation is no longer rotated 180 degrees.
- Sewers - Plan and Profile Sheets. When setting the
Beginning Station on the hydraulic profile to something
other than zero, the plan and profile sheet station
ranges update appropriately.
- Storm Sewers - Edit Rainfall Data. Additional error
checking was added to ensure that changing the input
method immediately after clicking the Results button
would no longer write zero intensities to the rainfall
data file. This change was made in all Edit commands and
Input methods.
- Storm Sewers - When you select a command the first time a
sub-project is opened that requires computations to be
run with a Western Rainfall file, the software will no
longer produce a Windows exception error.
- Site Design - Volumes. The Volume Results dialog that
appears after calculating prismoidal volumes or balance
volumes, now contains a Volume Units droplist to display
the results in Cubic Feet, Cubic Yards or Acre-Feet for
English unit projects and Cubic Meters or Hectare-Meters
for Metric unit projects.
- Site Design - Calculate Prismoidal Volumes. Changes were
made to correct volume computations when certain
boundaries are used.
- Site Design - Calculate Grade and Distance. You may now
issue this command more than once without having to
reload the Site Design menu.
- Surface Modeling - Microstation users only. Using a Fence
to Find crossing breaklines no longer produces a
Microstation MDL abort.
- Surface Modeling - Show Masked Objects. This command now
displays masked objects for any of the types specified.
- Surface Modeling - Triangulate Surface Model.
Modifications to this command correct problems with data
sets with certain breakline scenarios that would produce
"holes" or void regions in models. The Track
Coordinates and Place Spot Elevation commands would
report no data in these regions.
- Surface Modeling - Delete Triangle. Running this command
with the Multiple option set and selecting many triangles
will no longer "max out" system resources.
- Surface Modeling - Microstation users only. Running the
Delete Vertex command on Eagle Point Contours no longer
corrupts the design file.
- Surface Modeling - Microstation users only. The size of
the ellipse for contour annotation has been increased
when using the Place Symbol Around Annotation option.
- Surface Modeling - Make User Defined Contours. The item
for the user defined contours in the CAD Settings
droplist is no longer blank.
- Survey Adjustment - Entry By Nodes. Using an External
Node Database with Read Settings of Database only no
longer reports the "Node does not exist" error.
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
The following features have been added to Eagle Point Software:
- No Slope option for Typical Sections - A new feature has
been added to RoadCalc to allow your typical sections to
be processed onto your original ground without
catchslopes. This feature is beneficial to show bridge
areas without catchslopes and earthwork volumes. A new
Slope type will be added to the Slopes Library called 'No
Slope' with a single entry defaulted into that category
when you open the Slopes Library. The 'No Catch Slope'
slope may be used in your condition tables as a slope to
apply to your typical sections. When that condition table
is specified in your Design Locations and the Run Design
command is used, the typical sections processed in the
region you used the 'No Catch Slope' option will "float"
above your original ground without tieslopes. Design
Earthwork volumes will be zeroed out in that region as
well. By processing the 'No Catch Slope' condition, your
cross-section stations specified in that range will have
a Status of 'N' for No Catch Slope. To remove that status
use the Edit Cross-Section Data->Modify Station
command and toggle off the No Catch Slope toggle. This
toggle also affects the 3D Faces command. In the 'No
Catch Slope' regions along your alignment, the original
ground lying underneath the "floating" road
will have 3D Faces generated along with the road itself.
There will not be any faces created that tie the road
into original ground.
- Drafting Coordinate Table - A new command has been added
to the Create Tables menu called Coordinate. This command
allows you to place a user-specified list of Nodes as a
table into your drawing/design file. The command starts
by prompting you to select the nodes you wish to table.
Select the Nodes using the standard options. To control
what the table looks like use the Settings button. Toggle
on the options you want to see in the tables as well as
column headers, individual cell prefix/suffix and column
order. Use the Place button on the Create Coordinate
Table dialog box after you have your Node selection. The
CAD settings for this command may be found in the System->Default
CAD Settings->Drafting->coordinate table.
The following problems have been fixed in Eagle Point Software:
- System - Numerous changes have been made to the
synchronization of alignments. When projects are opened
that have in the past demonstrated loss of alignment data
or graphics, you may now be prompted to synchronize your
alignments. The synchronize dialog box now contains the
alignment name and RoadCalc sub-project number to help
you identify which option you want to choose when the
synchronize dialog box appears. If you do not choose to
update either graphics or the data and choose the Close
button, your alignments are still out of sync but you may
then investigate which of the two choices is appropriate
by running the Edit Alignment Data command in RoadCalc
for the specified sub-projects. Once you determine which
is correct you may run the Synchronize Graphics and Data
command from the RoadCalc Alignments menu. You will then
be prompted to update the graphic using the data or to
update the data using the graphic. Updating the graphic
from the data now uses the proper CAD settings defined
for your alignments. These changes should correct
problems in projects that have had alignment loss in the
past. If the process outlined above does not correct the
problems, deleting the original alignments and re-defining
them using commands in the 99 Q, 2000 Q1C or 2000 C
releases of the software should prohibit further
complications with alignments. Also, if alignments that
have been offset using your CAD offset command exhibit
strange behavior, you should run the Unlink Object
command on the offset lines. This removes the duplicated
intelligent data the CAD systems can create. Select the
Unlink Object command from the Drafting->Modify menu
or type unlink at your CAD command line (dr
unlink for Microstation users).
- System - Microstation users only. Switching between
design files while leaving the Microstation Plot
Configuration dialog box open will no longer corrupt the
next design file opened.
- System - When multiple users are accessing drawings
within the same project, your plot scales will no longer
change based on the last drawing opened.
- System - Open command. The drawing preview command now
allows each drawing within a project to have its own
preview image. Also, changes were made so that
highlighting different projects with a large number of
objects in the preview images does not slow down your
machine.
- System - Copy. Changes were made to ensure that all Sub-project
files are copied to the specified destination location.
- System - Import Field Code Library. An additional filter
was added to the open dialog box to allow you to select a
file to import with any extension. Additionally, the
first and third lines of the format Example of the ASCII
file in the On-line Help are missing the QTO Tag values.
- System - Node Synchronization. Microstation users only.
Changes were made to this command that can affect
projects that exhibit synchronization errors that cannot
be resolved. Choosing either option to resolve the error
should eliminate future synchronization notifications.
- System - Node Conversion from previous releases. A fuel
gauge has been added to this command to show progress of
the conversion process. Also, checks have been added for
AutoCAD users to make sure that drawings opened while in
paper space do not get the nodes converted into paper
space.
- System - Default CAD Settings. When using the Large Fonts
option in Windows, selecting the Bylayer option on the
Color button sets the Color setting properly.
- Administrator - Converting Previous projects will now set
the active symbol library to match the symbol library
used in past versions of Eagle Point (EP13.x/14.x, MS5.5
and ProSurveyor). You MUST convert the previous
installations of your past Eagle Point versions so that
the symbol libraries are available at the time the
converted project is opened. Use the Convert Previous
Installation command in the Eagle Point Administrator.
- COGO - The Unused Nodes command has been sped up. Nodes
on frozen layers or levels that are off are now included
in the report.
- COGO - Modify Lot. This command now allows you to use the
PIC button to graphically select the lot you wish to
modify.
- COGO - Construct Through Nodes. When changing from a
curve selection to a line selection, the last Node
entered (PT) is set to the first point of the line
segment by default. This only affects numerical input.
- Drafting - Annotate Alignment Stationing. Station
annotation will dynamically update when using RoadCalc to
adjust curve parameters.
- Drafting - Create Alignment Table. Microstation only. The
degree symbol used for the Deflection Angle, Delta Angle,
DOCarc, DOCchord, and Chord Direction now uses the
setting specified in Annotation Styles->Edit Direction
Styles. This corrects the problem where the fraction '33/64'
appears in the table.
- Drafting - Create Alignment Table. The Defined Alignments
dialog box now allows you to highlight the alignment in
the list rather than having to select it from CAD.
- Drafting - Annotation Shortcut commands. Line annotation
when first placed into the drawing will now be placed as
text just like the dialog box versions of the same
commands.
- Drafting - Annotation. Lines and arcs that are numbered
using the various annotation commands (By Number, Number
to Fit, Annotation Shortcuts) should now all be
recognized as objects to be tabled.
- Drafting - The Unlink Objects command has been modified
to allow window and fence selection of multiple objects
in CAD. Running the Unlink command will destroy ALL
intelligent data on the objects selected.
- Profiles - Annotate Point/Grade Break. The station value
and location of the annotation will now be properly
placed in the PCS.
- Profiles - Draw Custom Structure. Specifying a block that
is not in your CAD support file search path can now be
placed using this command.
- Profiles - A problem was resolved with setting a RoadCalc
profile to use a PCS in the Plan Drawing and immediately
running the Place Grid command.
- RoadCalc - Edit Alignment Data. Alignment PIs with
deflection angles exactly 90 and long spiral lengths will
no longer produce invalid graphic representations of the
alignment.
- RoadCalc - Modify PI. Microstation users only. An MDL
abort was fixed when modifying the location of PI#1 in an
alignment with only BOP, PI1 and EOP.
- RoadCalc - Edit Alignment Data. All segments of
Unrestricted special alignments now follow your specified
CAD Settings.
- RoadCalc - Generate Alignment Reports. When printing the
PI and Curve data directly to a printer, all pages of the
printout will now be printed in the same queue, rather
than being buffered to the next printout.
- RoadCalc - View Cross-Sections. Microstation users only.
You can now view consecutive cross-sections without an
MDL abort.
- RoadCalc - Edit Cross-Section Data. The lock status ('L')
in the Station list on the Edit Cross-Section Data dialog
box no longer disappears after a graphic modification.
- RoadCalc - Edit Cross-Section Data. The Modify Shot
dialog keeps track of the Offset, Elevation, IH, RR,
Slope and Distance properly when switching between the
different entry methods.
- RoadCalc - Extract Cross-Section from Surface Model. A
problem was resolved that prevented the command from
working when an alignment begins or ends in the middle of
a triangle that only has one neighboring triangle.
- RoadCalc - Profiles. The processing and drawing of the
original ground profiles when viewing the profile
graphics was significantly sped up.
- RoadCalc - Extract Profiles from Surface Model. You now
can select a complex object to profile by selecting an
arc segment contained within the complex object.
- RoadCalc - When specifying Unrestricted zones in your
design profiles, the VPI station where the Unrestricted
toggle is set will use the specified elevation at that
VPI. The following VPI station's elevation will also be
used during the Run Design process. All stations between
will use the elevations as drawn on the typical sections.
- RoadCalc - Generate Profile Reports. Profiles with an
asymmetric curve on the first VPI can now be printed.
- RoadCalc - Profile Settings. Changing any of your profile
settings will now force a redraw of all profiles and
utilities to ensure they are drawn with the proper PCS
settings.
- RoadCalc - Typical Sections. Microstation users only.
After converting a version 5.5 sub-project, the template
files will now be reconstructed so that you won't receive
the message stating you must have a 3D design file.
- RoadCalc - Manage Typical Sections. When copying the left
side and right side from two different typical sections,
the typical section graphic will be redrawn using the
combined data.
- RoadCalc - Construct Typical Sections. Negative PT Codes
can now be entered during precision input.
- RoadCalc - Run Design. A problem was corrected that may
occur when using the Run Design command in the RoadCalc
module. It is possible for the design profile elevations
to be set incorrectly with certain data sets. This is the
same fix that was provided via the 'RCRunDesign' patch
posted 1/25/00.
- RoadCalc - Run Design. You may now print the processing
warnings.
- RoadCalc - Run Design. When using a Condition Table that
applies your catchslopes from a specified PT Code rather
than the outermost point of your typical section, the
typical section surfaces are removed and tied properly to
themselves.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. Reference lines are now
annotated on both sides of the centerline when requested.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. You may now specify
elevation intervals of less than 1 in metric sub-projects.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. The Text Settings now
allow for prefixes and suffixes with spaces in them by
using the <> convention as documented.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. The Color button on the
CAD Settings command may now be used to set your colors.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. The Circle Stations and
Datum Elevations with certain metric scales and grid
settings will now align closer to the edges of your sheet.
- RoadCalc - Plan & Profile Sheets. Your list of sheets
in your current sub-project are now properly maintained
after loading a different format from the Format Library.
- RoadCalc - Plan & Profile Sheets. Microstation users
only. The attachment points for the plan design file and
profile design file are now properly aligned to the sheet
annotation.
- RoadCalc - Plan & Profile Sheets. AutoCAD/IntelliCAD
users only. Additional error checking was added to ensure
that the sheet prototype used has the TILEMODE set to 1
before attempting to create the sheets.
- RoadCalc - Mass Diagrams. Metric projects with Adjustment
volumes no longer will produce a Dr. Watson during sheet
creation.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. The Use Zonal Compaction toggle on
the Calculation tab of the Settings dialog box now
properly includes or excludes the compaction zones
specified.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. Toggling off original ground surfaces
on the Design Earthwork Display Settings tab will now
affect the total Mass volume at every station.
- RoadCalc - Using the Stations and Coordinates command
with certain alignment data sets no longer locks up.
- Sewers - Locate Outfall. When using the PIC button and
snapping to a object, the elevation is extracted from the
object and used as the Outfall Elevation.
- Sewers - The Set Inverts by Slope command now allows you
to enter negative slopes.
- Sewers - Calculate. When receiving the "Not enough
drop in reach" warning message, the affected pipes
are now displayed.
- Sewers - Calculation Details. The listbox in the lower
left corner will now hold its position when changing
between pipes.
- Storm Sewers - HEC-22 Calculator. The local depression
value no longer gets divided by twelve after running one
calculation.
- Storm Sewers - HEC-22 Calculator. The printout has been
modified to contain the Flow Data Input and Inlet
Parameters along with the Calculation Results.
- Site Design - 3D Feature Editor. Tooltips have been added
to the 4th and 5th icons (Slope Projection Settings and
Calculate Volumes).
- Site Design - 3D Offset. Arcs that have been changed to 3D
segments using the Assign Grade to Object command can now
be offset.
- Surface Modeling - 2D polylines that have been weeded
remain as 2D rather than being changed to 3D polylines.
- Surface Modeling - Repair Crossing Breaklines. Additional
checks are now in place when Trimming the shorter line.
When two lines cross, all four of the segments are
analyzed to trim the shortest one.
- Surface Modeling - Grid Elevation Labels. AutoCAD users
only. The Eagle Point Spot Elevation Object now uses the
text rotation setting.
- Surface Modeling - Triangulate. Using the External Files
option with an External Node Database now includes the
nodes in the triangulation.
- Surface Modeling - Triangulate. When crossing breaklines
are encountered during the triangulation process, the
buttons on the warning dialog box now contain captions.
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
The following features have been added to Eagle Point Software:
- Inherit Node Elevation from RoadCalc Design - A new
command 'Inherit Elevation from Design' has been added to
the RoadCalc Output menu. This command allows you to
select a group of Nodes and change their elevations
according to your current sub-project design. No matter
what station the nodes "fall" on, the
elevations are processed from your design input (profiles,
typical sections and slope treatments). This is done by
calculating the exact station and offset values the nodes
lie at and processing those stations as if they were
cross-section stations. This makes the elevations of the
nodes account for such things as vertical curves and
superelevation. An optional report may be toggled on to
display the Station, Offset, Northing, Easting and New
Elevation of the "changed" nodes.
- Site Design Track Depths - Like the Track Elevations
command, this new command in the Site Design Depths menu
now allows you to query Northing, Easting, Elevations and
Depths between two specified surface models. After
establishing the two models to analyze, click the Apply
button to send focus to CAD. As your cursor moves across
the models, the Northing, Easting, Elevation (of both
models) and depth is dynamically tracked, providing a
quick query of where the second model is in a Cut or Fill
situation.
The following problems have been fixed in Eagle Point Software:
- Administrator - Convert Previous Installations command is
now converting the plot format defaults for RoadCalc.
- System - The Sub-project prototype droplist on the New
Sub-project command now defaults to the first or second
prototype depending on the Project units (English or
Metric respectively) for the first sub-project added.
After that, any other sub-projects added to that project
default to use the last Sub-project Prototype selected.
RoadCalc, Sanitary Sewers and Storm Sewer each save their
own settings.
- System – Prototype Settings. MicroStation users only.
The New Prototype Setting command no longer freezes Eagle
Point.
- System – A Projname.set file is no longer
created in the parent directory of where the project is
stored.
- System – Import Node Field Code Library. Field Code
Libraries that have Attribute Styles with spaces in them
are now imported when using the ASCII option.
- System – Node Field Code Library. Nodes placed with
a Field Code that was added in the current session of
Eagle Point are now displayed correctly in Report
commands.
- System – New Field Code Library. MicroStation users
only. The cell name will now be used as the field code
when adding a new field code library with the
Automatically Add Cells from Cell Library option toggled
on.
- System – Update Node Information. IntelliCAD / Stand
Alone users only. Updating from the Database to the
Drawing now functions correctly.
- System – All data files are being written to the
correct location when using the Advanced Options for Data
Files and Plot Files.
- System – New. Adding in a project by select the Projname.epp
file will now set the path correctly for all sub-projects.
- System – Open. The STDAT/SSDAT file is now being
copied to the project directory when opening a project
from a previous version of Eagle Point.
- COGO - The Select Nodes dialog boxes found on various
commands (i.e. Move Nodes, Report Nodes, Report Station/Offset,
etc.) now save the last options specified. For example,
if in the Move Nodes command you set your Selection
Method to AutoCAD, the Report Nodes command by default is
also set to use the AutoCAD Selection Method.
- COGO – Leader Attributes. Additional spaces will no
longer be added to the description when using various
options in the External Node Database.
- COGO - MicroStation users only. The Place Nodes Along
Object command now finds the correct elevation along 3D
curves when using the Inherit Elevation option.
- COGO - Boundary and Alignment Traverse commands will now
compute the Degree of Curve Arc and Chord definitions
when entering a radius for a curve with a tangent
direction of NE90.
- COGO - Field Data Traverse. The Instrument Height and Rod
Height settings are now defaulted with the same settings
from the Entry Options command.
- Data Collection - Topcon FC-4 coordinate files now reduce
properly.
- Data Collection - A file date check has been added to
ensure that the reduced files (*.g##) are updated when
the downloaded files (*.d##) are edited outside of the
Eagle Point software.
- Data Collection - A check has been added to the
Designators dialog box so that the same character cannot
be used for more than one designator.
- Data Collection - 2D linework with multiple shots on
curve now contains multiple arcs fitted through the shots.
- Data Collection - 3D linework with multiple shots on
curve now smooths the curves with the correct elevations.
- Data Collection/Drafting - MicroStation users only.
Pattern lines with text now have the text appear.
- Data Collection - 3-D Template Library. Error checking
has been added to not allow duplicate names.
- Data Collection - Linework Library. Error checking has
been added to not allow duplicate names when Modifying.
Also, older version linework libraries that may have
duplicate line names, will be repaired to contain only
one instance of the name.
- Data Collection - Sorting the Cross-Section Patterns list
by any of the columns no longer causes index problems for
the Modify, Copy or Delete commands.
- Drafting/COGO - The Annotate Area, Write Lot Legal and
Create Lot commands now highlight the area in question
when using the EPOLY option.
- Drafting - Annotation Style data files (\SUPPORT\DR\ANSTY???.DAT)
that are marked as 'Read Only' can now be used correctly.
- Drafting - Annotation Styles - Edit Direction Style and
Write Lot Legal settings. Leading and trailing spaces can
now be entered for the Directions, Degrees, Minutes and
Seconds.
- Drafting - Annotation Styles - Edit Station-Offset Style.
Leading and trailing spaces can now be entered for the
suffix labels.
- Drafting - Write Lot Legal. The direction of the lot is
now used in all cases when writing the description.
- Drafting - Insert Coordinate Grid. AutoCAD users only.
Creating a grid using ticks no longer creates an
exception violation.
- Drafting Annotate Lines - MicroStation users only. The
direction arrow is now placed when toggled on.
- Profiles - Draw Inlet/Manhole. The Invert Elevation
fields can now be left blank.
- Profiles - Draw Pipe Structure to Structure. The inlets/manholes
are resized according to the Elevation or Grade entered.
The depth of the structure is based on the lower of the
two inverts.
- Profiles - Profile from Object. A profile can now be
constructed in a RoadCalc PCS when the object you select
to profile extends beyond the limits of the alignment.
- Profiles - Deleting a RoadCalc sub-project will remove
the corresponding PCS from the Setup Profile Coordinate
Systems dialog box.
- RoadCalc - Alignment CAD Settings. Changing the CAD
settings for alignments will no longer insert an extra PI
into the alignment.
- RoadCalc - Edit Alignment Data. Entering the same spiral
length twice as the Spiral In or Out will no longer re-calculate
the curve data more than once.
- RoadCalc - Modifying and alignment with only one PI no
longer creates an application error.
- RoadCalc - Superelevation. If the Superelevation Data
file is missing, instead of reporting an error that the
file does not exist, RoadCalc automatically re-creates
the Superelevation data with defaults.
- RoadCalc - Modify Cross-Section Shot. Modifying a sub-surface
Cross-Section shot that was entered as Offset/Depth,
properly displays the depth rather than the calculated
elevation.
- RoadCalc - View Cross-Sections. Additional error checking
was added to eliminate random lock ups when trying to
rapidly view cross-sections in CAD.
- RoadCalc - Extract Profile from Surface Model. Profiles
may now be extracted from objects that extend beyond the
limits of the alignment.
- RoadCalc – View Profile Graphics. Viewing the
profile graphics that has a hydraulic profile referenced
will now reload the hydraulic profile drawing instead of
attempting to attach it again.
- RoadCalc - Define Typical Section. Undercut surfaces can
now be defined properly.
- RoadCalc - Associate Alignments and Profiles. Modifying
an association will no longer change the Control PT Code
to match the Alignment/Profile PT Code.
- RoadCalc - Condition Table Settings. The Number of added
segments for Slope Rounding is now being saved.
- RoadCalc - Setting a slope condition to be applied at a
PT Code other than the outermost point is processed
correctly now.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. If AutoCAD linestyles or
textstyles are specified in the settings and do not exist
in your prototype drawing, you will receive an error
stating which styles are missing.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. The Stations to Plot
command accounts for station equations and settings are
now being saved after closing the RoadCalc sub-project.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. Problems with Circle
Stations and Datum Elevations being placed off the sheet
with certain horizontal and vertical scale settings have
been remedied.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. Surfaces that only
appear on one side of the centerline no longer are
annotated on both sides.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets. MicroStation users only.
The sheet border is now being drawn using a shape element
rather than a linestring.
- RoadCalc - Cross-Section Sheets/Plan and Profile Sheets.
MicroStation users only. Heavy and fine grid lines can
now use custom linestyles.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets that start at odd
stations now annotate the profile stations and elevation
in even intervals.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets. Reverse curves are
being annotated with PRC settings rather than PCC
settings.
- RoadCalc - Plan and Profile Sheets. The annotation of
Original Ground Profile elevations will now follow the
toggle settings.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. Undercut volumes are now included in
the total Cut and Fill Earthwork volumes when toggled on.
- RoadCalc - Volumes. Problems resulting in Adjustment
volumes and borrow pits not being used have been remedied.
Borrow pit names can now have spaces in them.
- RoadCalc - Stations and Coordinates report correct values
when using overlap station equations.
- Site Design - There are now separate CAD Settings for Cut
contours and Fill contours in the Depth Contour commands.
- Site Design – The Northing, Easting and Elevation
edit fields are no longer disabled after graphically
select the first point in the Draw Feature Line command.
- Site Design – Project Slopes to Offset. Now prompted
to select a catchline to project to when the Use Boundary
option is toggled on.
- Site Design – Project Slope to Catchline. When using
the Elevation from Surface Model, the catchline is now
correctly drawn in 3D.
- Site Design – Project Plan Objects. MicroStation
users only. Added the ability to use a fence selection.
- Site Design – Calculate Volumes by Slice. Volumes
are now correctly calculated when using a boundary with
more than 100 sides.
- Surface Modeling – With a surface model added to the
manager but no model created, the Preview Contours
command no longer causes an exception in EGPT.EXE.
- Surface Modeling – Edit Model. MicroStation users
only. When contours are redrawn because of an edit to the
model, the contours will now be placed with the correct
CAD properties.
- Surface Modeling – Annotate Contours. When a
rectangle is placed around the contour annotation the
spacing between the text and rectangle has been increased.
- Surface Modeling – Annotate Contours. Selecting an
arc on locked layer will no longer prevent contours from
being annotated when using the Interval or End Points
options.
- Surface Modeling – Annotate Contours. The CAD
properties on the contours are now being held when they
are broken for the contour annotation.
- Surface Modeling – AutoCAD users only. With the
PLINEGEN system variable set to 1, the linetype no longer
starts over at each vertex of a contour line.
- Surface Modeling – AutoCAD users only. Using the
PEDIT command on a contour that is a Heavy Polyline will
no longer give an exception error upon exiting the
command.
- Surface Modeling – Mask Objects. A fuel gauge now
displays when the command is processing.
- Surface Modeling – Make Surface Model from Contours.
Now can use more than 1 predefined void region.
- Sewers – When the network is redrawn, plot scales
are re-read to determine the size of text for the pipe
and junction annotation.
- Sewers – Now allows you to have a lower junction
number farther upstream in the network.
- Sewers – Other sewer networks are now displayed as
utilities in the current network.
- Sewers – Convert Objects to Reach. MicroStation
users only. Arcs are now converted into the sewer network
and marked as a curved pipe with a length equal to the
arc length.
- Sewers – Details. ToolTips have been added to the
zoom and pan icons.
- Sewers – Details. The pipes are now scaled correctly
in the graphic window when in metric units.
- Sewers – Hydraulic Profile. Utilities are now placed
in the correct location when placing the hydraulic
profile in the plan drawing and using a profile
coordinate system other than 0,0,0,0.
- Sewers – Hydraulic Profile. Pipe ends (laterals) are
now drawn to the correct size.
- Sewers – Hydraulic Profile. View Rotation is now
being taken into account correctly.
- Sewers – Hydraulic Profile. EGL and HGL slopes are
now annotated correctly.
- Sewers – Hydraulic Profile. Pipe Length is now being
annotated according to the pipe length settings.
- Sewers – Hydraulic Profile. Pipe Slope is now being
annotated according to the pipe slope settings.
- Sewers – Hydraulic Profile. Profile Junction
Elevation now reads the annotation toggle.
- Sewers – Hydraulic Profile. The slope annotation on
the pipe is now annotated correctly.
- Sewers – Hydraulic Profile. Profile invert
elevations are now being annotated correctly.
- Sewers – Details. Infiltration units are now being
applied correctly.
- Sewers – Plan and Profile. MicroStation users only.
The Pipe text placed along the pipe in the plan portion
of the plan and profile sheets is now aligned with the
pipe.
- Sewers – Plan and Profile Sheets. Additional error
checking prevents EGPT.EXE exceptions when you toggle on
the Reference Alignment option but do not select an
alignment.
- Sewers – Plan and Profile Sheets. Text placed below
the inlet/manhole no longer interferes when there is sump
depth.
- Sanitary Sewers – Sanitary Sewer networks are no
longer displayed twice in the Manage Utilities dialog box.
- Sanitary Sewers – Details. Peak factors are now
displayed correctly for the flow profile that was used to
calculate the sewer network.
- Sanitary Sewers – Pump Data. The exit loss
coefficient properly checks the valid range of input data.
- Sanitary Sewers – The System Curve is now being
drawn correctly.
- Storm Sewers – Details. Gutter flow is now reported
correctly when using a grate inlet on grade.
- Storm Sewers – Details. Fixes to rainfall data in
metric unit projects corrects the following inlet
calculation results; Depth at Curb, Depth at Pavement/Gutter,
Gutter Velocity, Gutter Flow, Pavement Flow, Carryover
Flow, Gutter Cross-Slope, Skipped Flow, Total Flow, Total
Intensity, Inlet Rational Flows and Total Time of
Concentration.
The following items discuss the most recent changes found in
this version of Eagle Point Software:
NOTE: For Users installing this release over
a past Eagle Point 98 or Eagle Point 99 release:
- You may install Eagle Point 2000 to the same directory
folder location on your hard drive.
- During the Installation/Setup procedure, you will be
prompted for the Windows Program folder location.
You may (optionally) use your previous program folder
from Eagle Point 98 or Eagle Point 99.
- If you do not run Storm or Sanitary Sewer modules, you do
not need to convert you Eagle Point 98 or Eagle Point 99
projects.
- If you worked with Storm or Sanitary Sewers in Eagle
Point 98 or Eagle Point 99, refer to the Conversion section below
that discusses important bub-project conversion issues.
Common Sewer Enhancements
- Sub-project Prototypes - Prototype (standard default)
information can be created and saved for future use on
other sewer networks.
- Closest Pipe Size - A toggle is now provided that allows
the program to select a size pipe (either larger or
smaller) that is closest to the size calculated by the
program.
- Pipe Library - A common library of pipes can be created
and shared between all sewer networks and allows you to
associate a Quantity Take-Off (QTO) identification value
for simpler cost analysis.
- Structure Library - A common library of junction
structures can be created and shared between all sewer
networks and allows you to associate a Quantity Take-Off
(QTO) identification value for simpler cost analysis.
- Set Inverts by Slope - Invert elevations can be quickly
established by specifying a desired slope from a known
starting invert elevation. Drops across inverts can also
be specified.
- Convert Objects to Network/Reach - Primitive CAD objects
(lines, polylines, line strings) can now be converted to
a sewer network reach by graphically selecting the object(s).
The rim elevation(s) at the junction point(s) can be
extrapolated from an Eagle Point surface model if desired.
- Import/Export Data - Sewer network data can be imported
from or exported to ASCII-based files for use in
spreadsheets or databases. This allows data to be more
easily shared with other sewer applications.
- Edit Commands - The various edit commands allow you to
review the list of available information and also allows
you to quickly select the piece(s) of information you
wish to adjust.
- Plan and Profile Sheets - Plan and Profile Sheets have
more annotation settings available that provide greater
flexibility to control how Plan and Profile Sheets are
generated.
- Hydraulic Profiles - Hydraulic Profile information can be
placed into any CAD graphic file you choose (including
the main project drawing). The Hydraulic Profile drawings
are now used in Plan and Profile Sheets.
- Hydraulic Grade Line (HGL) and Energy Grade Line (EGL)
information is now plotted in Plan and Profile Sheets.
- Infiltration and Exfiltration - Water can seep in and out
of the network.
- Network Utilities - You can now see another network
within the current network as a utility.
Storm Sewers Enhancements
- Storm Sewers - Rainfall Library - The Rainfall Library
organizes and tracks different rainfall configurations so
that they can be quickly located, modified, printed, and
used in different Storm Sewer networks.
- Storm Sewers - Rainfall Library - Rainfall data can be
placed in a tabular format that allows you to enter
specific rainfall data you have. Eagle Point will perform
a straight-line interpolation of the rainfall data that
has been entered.
- Storm Sewers - Rainfall Library - In Eastern/Central and
Custom rainfall methods, you can use an alternative
method for extracting the intensities when the rainfall
duration is greater than 2 hours.
- Storm Sewers - Rainfall Maps - The Rainfall Maps have
been enhanced so you can zoom and pan in the maps and see
bordering states. Rainfall intensities can also be
extrapolated from the maps by graphically picking the
location you are interested in.
- Storm Sewers - Flow Data - Drainage area and runoff
coefficients can be entered in a table so weighted
composite drainage basins can be more accurately
represented.
- Storm Sewers - Inlet Library - The Inlet Library allows
you to organize and track different inlet configurations
so that they can be quickly located, modified, printed,
and used in different Storm Sewer networks.
Sanitary Sewers Enhancements
- Sanitary Sewers - Force Mains - Hazen-Williams is now an
option for loss method.
- Sanitary Sewers - Minor Losses - Minor losses can be
specified using equivalent lengths.
- Sanitary Sewers - Flow Calculations - You can specify a
peak factor at a specified time in a 24-hour day. Peaking
factors can be entered in a table.
You can use Storm and Sanitary Sewer networks created in
previous versions with Eagle Point 2000. Below are the procedures
to convert projects from previous versions for use in Eagle Point
2000.
EP Version 13/14 for AutoCAD and EP Version 5.5 for
MicroStation
You need to use the Eagle Point Administrator to convert the
project first. After the project is converted, all you need to do
is open the Storm Sewer or Sanitary Sewer sub-project. If you are
using Storm Sewers, the rainfall file for the sub-project needs
to be imported.
- Convert the project using the Eagle Point Administrator.
See the Getting
Started manual for this procedure.
- Once the project has been converted, select File from the
Eagle Point menu and click on Open. On the Open dialog
box, highlight the sub-project on the Open dialog box and
click on the OK button. The sewer sub-project will open.
- If you are using Sanitary Sewers, skip to step 8.
- If you are using Storm Sewers, we need to import the
rainfall file for this project. From the Rainfall menu in
Storm Sewers, select Rainfall Library. The Rainfall
Library dialog box appears.
- Click on the Import button. The Import Rainfall Data
dialog box appears. Change the directory to where your
project is and select the *.rnd file
used in the project.
- Once the rainfall file is selected, click on the Open
button. You are now prompted for a description for the
rainfall file. Enter the description and click on the OK
button.
- At this time the rainfall file is added to the rainfall
library. Highlight the description just added. This makes
the rainfall file you just added the active rainfall file.
Click on the Close button.
- You are now able to start working with the network in
Storm Sewers or Sanitary sewers.
Standalone Version 7.0-S & EDSC Version 12 for AutoCAD
You need to add a Storm or Sanitary sewer sub-project first,
then import either Standalone Version 7.0 or EP (EDSC) Version 12
network file. If you are using Storm Sewers, the rainfall file
for the sub-project needs to be imported.
- From the File menu in Eagle point, select New.
- Add a new project with a description for the sewer
network. You will specify the drawing to use here as well.
- After the project is added, highlight it and click on the
Create New Project/Sub-project button on the Open dialog
box.
- Highlight either Storm Sewers Sub-project or Sanitary
Sewers Sub-project and click on the Next button.
- Enter in the Sub-project number and Description for the
network. Click on the Next button.
- On the New Sub-project dialog box, select the Finish
button to use the project drawing you specified before.
- Highlight the sub-project on the Open dialog box and
click on the OK button. The sewer sub-project will open.
- On the Storm Sewer or Sanitary Sewer menu, select Import
from the Network menu. The Import Network dialog box
displays.
- Change the Files of Type droplist to 7.0 Stand Alone
Network for version 7 networks and 12 Network for version
12 networks.
- You can now use the file selection options to select a
file with a *.stm extension for Storm
Sewers or *.san for Sanitary Sewers.
- Once you have highlighted the network file, click on the
Open button. The Network will be read in.
- If you are using Storm Sewers, we need to import the
rainfall file for this project. From the Rainfall menu in
Storm Sewers, select Rainfall Library. The Rainfall
Library dialog box appears.
- Click on the Import button. The Import Rainfall Data
dialog box appears. Change the directory to where your
project is and select the *.rnd file
used in the project.
- Once the rainfall file is selected, click on the Open
button. You are now prompted for a description for the
rainfall file. Enter the description and click on the OK
button.
- At this time the rainfall file is added to the rainfall
library. Highlight the description just added. This makes
the rainfall file you just added the active rainfall file.
Click on the Close button.
- You are now able to start working with the network in
Storm Sewers or Sanitary sewers.
The following features have been added to Eagle Point Software:
The following problems have been fixed in Eagle Point Software:
- Administrator - Convert Previous Projects - Converting
previous projects with RoadCalc templates without
Overbreak information no longer causes the conversion
process to stall.
- RoadCalc - Edit Data (Alignment) - Superelevation
transitions between severely overlapping curves are now
properly handled.
- RoadCalc - Settings - When RoadCalc Profile graphics are
configured to be written to the Plan graphic, RoadCalc
now correctly places the profile information in the plan
graphic associated with the RoadCalc sub-project rather
than the project’s main plan graphic.
- RoadCalc - Construct Typical Section - Point (PT) Codes
placed into a typical section graphic when the "Fill
Only" option is enabled are now properly placed on
the correct layer/level.
- System - External Node Database - When reading from and
writing only to an External Node Database, the Rename/Renumber
Nodes command no longer removes the Nodes from the
External Node Database.
- System - RoadCalc - AutoCAD Only - When switching between
drawings, Eagle Point menus and dialog boxes are "hidden
below" the AutoCAD drawing notification dialog box.
- System - Open - When opening a RoadCalc sub-project and a
sub-project graphic is loaded, the main plan graphic is
no longer automatically loaded.
Copyright © 2000 Eagle Point Software
Corporation
Last revised: December 04, 2000.