On our current project, we are using alignments by others as guides for Site Modeling
Every important alignment is saved to native style ALG files. For our task, we imported their Alignments so we can do whatever we need with them and if the alignment changes, we can re-import and our derived geometry will update.
So we use a vertical offset from their alignment to assign a profile to our geometry. When we looked at the propertied for our Profile By Projecting LinEnt3D Slope Rule, we noticed the Stations reported as Start and Stop were based upon the Stationing, minus the starting station value and ignoring any station equations.
Since the XML reports honors these values, why do not these derived values?
As part of our design process, we often have had to shift one of our derived elements using station values. We are told move this point to Sta. XX+XX.
Having to translate Alignment stationing to raw stationing reduces the value of these tools as some of our alignments literally have gone through the entire alphabet twice and are starting on their third. We are talking A-Z, AA-ZZ and are now using AAA-EEE.
To convert one of those from Alignment station to raw station could take hours.