Profile Station and Elevation Labels

[t-square]

I am a first time poster and would also probably classify myself as an advanced novice when it comes to LDT, so if this is a basic question, please bear with me and excuse my ignorance. I am using LDT 2005.

I have been cutting profiles for a project, and when I started, everything seemed to be working just fine. Recently, however, when I create a profile, the Station and Elevation labels are missing. The layers are being created (and are not frozen or off), but for some reason the data isn't getting inserted into the profile drawing. Is there an options setting or a switch somewhere or a system variable that needs to be changed? What am I not seeing? I have been fighting some "FATAL ERROR's" and "Assertion Failures" that have on occasion changed "FILEDIA" FROM <1> to <0>, so I wouldn't be surprised if something else was changed.

Thanks.

[MHultgren]

Have you defined a FG centerline? Created the FG tangents and\or Vertical curves? As far as I know, LDT doesn't give you Station-Elevation labels (other than the grid labels) for existing ground profiles. Or am I mis-reading your post?

[t-square]

Thanks for the quick response. You probably didn't mis-read my post. I probably don't have the verbiage down yet. The grid labels are what I am looking for.

I am not building roads, rather laying out routes for water and sewer pipelines where no roads exist. My profiles are only for the existing ground, no curves, no left or right profiles, so my alignment would be my centerline.

I hope this helps clarify things.

[Phil Ferguson]

Any chance you have a text style set current that is intended for paperspace (small)?

I have done this before...

[MHultgren]

In addition to Phil's suggestion. Do you have the profile layers set to create all layers with the Alignment prefix? If not, are you telling it to erase existing profile layers?
And the BIG Catch-ALL-- Do you have the latest SP installed?

[t-square]

I had checked that when this problem first started, and that didn't seem to be the culprit. Following your reply I went back and double checked, but that doesn't seem to be a problem. I'm using the same text style for the alignment station labels, and they are showing up fine.

All the appropriate layers where created and all objects but those on the *_PEGCT & *_PGRIDT layers are being displayed.

Thanks

[t-square]

I went back to the "Edit Settings" dialog box and double checked all the Profile settings, and all seems as it should be.
Profile layers are set to create all layers with the alignment prefix (*_).
As far as I know, I am not telling it to erase existing profile layers - at least not intentionally.
I have SP 1 installed.

Thanks

[Aquaserpent]

Zoom Extents and see if the information is somewhere in space.

[Phil Ferguson]

Zoom Extents and see if the information is somewhere in space.

Good idea...Have the profiles been moved?

[t-square]

Fred & Phil, thanks for your suggestions.

I tried the Zoom Extents and scrutinized every speck I could see. I even changed the layer colors to the brightest yellow and even turned out the overhead lights. Most of the specks turned out to be dust, but none where the wayward grid labels. This was a good suggestion because I've also been having an issue with things going off into the yonder when doing a copy with (or without) a base point and paste. I'd paste in from the clipboard and not see my object, then later find it some incredible distance to the northeast (usually NE but occasionally to the southwest). But that's a separate issue that I've been working around for now. My immediate concern is this grid label issue.

Regarding the thought about the possibility the profiles may have been moved, they haven't.

Again, thanks for the thoughts and suggestions and please keep them coming.

Randy Knutson
Anchorage, Alaska