I think you are missing my question.
First - it has been a while since I played with Data Acquisition and Civil Geometry. Still married to traditional InRoads per client situation. A recent post indicates that there is movement on that front, so I needed to shake off the cobwebs. Coming back to Open Roads technology in Ss2 after many months, I could not remember how to tell Ss2 to use my XIN file for Civil Geometry.
Second - I have apparently configured my workspace to use the variables that I have been using in the native InRoads Project Defaults dialog box, for any settings possible that the Open Roads software could use. I must have done this based upon some of the videos and other information collected since these capabilities were first introduced.
In my standards folder, I have a Site-InRoads.cfg file. In it, my hidden variable for XIN files is defined as follows:
_InRoads_XIN = $(_AB_IRXM_CLIENT)Data/$(_AB_CLIENT_XIN) #XM or later: XIN
This uses other variables, set in other CFG files, to read the path and filename for the XIN file. This variable appears in our one main Project Defaults Project that we use for all MicroStation projects. With it, we automatically load the correct client XIN file.
Apparently, for Ss2, I added this line along with a few others:
DA_STYLEFILE = $(_InRoads_XIN)
And for Ss3, I also added these lines:
CIVIL_SURVEY_STYLEFILE = $(_InRoads_XIN)
CIVIL_XIN_FILE = $(_InRoads_XIN)
So when I launch Ss2 or Ss3, my survey styles are set automatically.
But only Ss3 loads my civil styles. That requires me to use the Items dialog box, which if you haven't used Civil Geometry in Ss2 in many months, is pretty far back in the brain. However, even after manually loading my XIN in the Items dialog box, when I open the Setting > Design File dialog box, this is what I see:
In the Category pane, there is no Civil Formatting item. Now, according to the help file, it should be here. And I believe there are other posts on the newsgroups where this is discussed. Actually, here is the Angle settings from the image in the help file:
And the Civil Formatting.
So, is Civil Formatting supposed to appear in my Power InRoads Ss2 Design File Settings dialog box? Is these some variable I need to add to enable it?
I almost forgot to mention, there is also supposed to be a new View Options - Civil pane in the user preference dialog box. I am also missing that.
TIA