Custom Railroad Subassembly help needed

[willbacker45]

Hi all,

 

I am new to the discussion groups but have been looking up answers here a lot. I want to thank you all for taking the time to help out!

 

I work in Rail Development and I am trying to create an assembly that will automatically generate a rail/tie shape and label Top of Rail Elevations, Track name and number, and offset distance. I have been copying/pasting a block onto each track in every cross section. This takes way too long! I have attached an image of what I want the assembly to look like in the cross section.

 

Before now, I have been typing in all of that information, when there are 9 tracks and 77 cross sections, it becomes quite time consuming! Any tips would be very much appreciated!

 

Thanks!

Will

[hugha]

At first glance I'd suggest adding attributes to the block to position the text. You may already be doing this.

More complete automation would involve inserting the block at a picked point and feeding those values in from a row in an external table. Many ways to skin that cat. This may help:

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?15732-controlling-titleblock-attributes-with-excel-sheet

[ReMark]

Could the information be handled by a field?

[LibertyOne]

Are you able to extract data from other plans/dwg's to use in your sections?

[willbacker45]

Thank you for the responses. I would like to have the assembly read from our prof/alignments and then just display the information in the cross-section. This can be done, as I have done it before. I just cant remember how I got it to work!

[ReMark]

Maybe you used attributes and an Excel spreadsheet?

[willbacker45]

It is a marked point with offset and elevation labels.

[willbacker45]

I know that I didn't reference a table. Everything is read straight off of the profile and alignments that the corridor follows.

[ReMark]

Then you must have used a feature unique to the program or a field.

[willbacker45]

ReMark, thank you for your help. I think that I figure it out. I had made a custom label style with the marker being a block that I created to represent the track.