Trimble Business Center

There appears to be a bug, or at least a misunderstanding in the alignment labeling function.  The issue is with the spacing for the major ticks: as long as the value you are using for the spacing is an even multiple or divisor of 100 (100, 200, 50, 25, 12.5, etc) everything seems to work fine.  I don't even want to get into why, but I need to label an alignment every 264 feet and said alignment starts at station 10+00.  Meaning I would like a label at 10+00, 12+64, 15+28, 17+92... for seven miles.  If I put in 264 for the spacing, it puts a label at 10+00, but then 10+56, 13+20, 15+84... (it seems to be calculating the points based on the alignment starting at 0+00)

@Gary Lantaff

I don't think that this is a bug - the 264' station intervals are computed from 0 not from the start station of the alignment (10+00), this is usually what people want i.e. if the alignment started at 925.235 and you say you want an interval of 20 then you would not typically want stations at 945.235, 965.235 etc. you would want them at the 925.235 and then 940, 960, 980 etc.

What you have here is a "Corner Case" / "Special Need" that is highly unusual I would say - and the tool just was not written to handle that. I would create a copy of the HAL and start its station at 0 to create the Ticks in the right places, and then Label them manually for this situation (depending on how long the alignment is) - you can use the increment text command as it is today to do that relatively quickly as that works this way today at least (I just asked yesterday to get that changed because it doesn't work as well as it should for the 95% use case - however it sounds like we should allow the entry of a Reference Station (from which the Intervals are computed), the Interval and then allow overrides as needed.

Alan

ah yes, of course I should have realized that.  definitely not a bug.  Thank you, Alan.  

Odd.  It changes base if you choose 20+00, 50+00, etc.  Works at 1+00..

Development have addressed this issue today and it will be in the next release.

Alan