New Vehicle Tracking 2018
Eleanor Heidecker
Vehicle Tracking provides a set of transportation design tools that include vehicle swept path prediction for steered vehicles, light rail vehicles, and aircraft, as well as parking layout design and roundabout design.
Vehicle Tracking is a suite of transportation-related programs that includes vehicle swept path prediction for steered vehicles, light rail vehicles, and aircraft, as well as parking layout design and roundabout design.
Civil engineers working on roads, highways, airports, rail, and site design can use Vehicle Tracking to conduct swept path analysis and design, create and edit parking areas, and improve roundabout design.
Your Vehicle Tracking subscription gives you access to install and use the three previous versions of Vehicle Tracking. Available downloads are listed in your Autodesk Account after subscribing. See also previous releases available for subscribers.
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Per the supplied screencast, I have created a custom report in a drawing (changes the visual style / colours of the default Vehicle Tracking) and have gone through the steps to make it the default report style (im assuming this is the correct process, documentation and help on vehicle tracking is quite limited). I then switch to another drawing and would like to enable this created custom report, yet there is no option to select it.
Its a shame that the report changes arent "live / shared" between existing drawings (perhaps that can be a suggested feature in an update?) but atleast the reports can still be used. Creating a new drawing while xref'ing the previous drawing is a good idea!
I would like to add a wish to this question for Autodesk to develop/implement in Vehicle tracking. It would be great to make it possible to export and import reports and/or copy a report from one vehicle to another in the same drawing. Say youve made 3 paths with different report styles. It would be nice if there was an option at Report Wizard "Copy report" and then just click on the desired vehicle and the report settings will apply! It would make this program so much easier for the users since you now need to make new reports for every single vehicle if you havent set your custom report from the beginning.
And is there any option to create an "export" of the report to copy it into other computer? I'd like to prepare one common report for my colleages and I'd like to share it with them, so I am looking for the simply solution.
Yesterday I was working with Vehicle Tracking and left a path in the file when I saved, closed C3D and went home for the day. Today the grip editing isn't working. It just moves the entire path like it is a block. I downloaded and installed the grip editing hotfix four days ago. Is there a way to get the grip edits to work other than just erasing the path and redrawing it? That is not a big once, but a bit of a nuisance if it happens all the time.
This is a late reply, but I just ran into what I think is the same issue recently. Using AutoCAD 2018, I noticed that all of my grips were gone and I could not edit the path of the vehicle UNTIL I reactivated the Vehicle Tracking module. Simply opening the Vehicle Tracking Explorer and then closing it without doing anything else was enough to reactivate the grips on my existing path.
I agree, we should have been notified of this unusual behavior. I can't think of anywhere else something like this happens. Can you simply make the license acquisition happen when we click on a vehicle path and Vehicle Tracking is installed on the computer?
BTW, my C3D license is a stand alone license, as is my VT license. Saturday I will move from IDSP license with VT to AECC, but it again is stand alone. Will this still happen when I install the new version next summer when SP 1 comes out for AECC 2019? I typically wait for SP 1 before installing any new versions.
Does anybody know if it's possible to display the centreline of the path a vehicle follows? My company has been using Autoturn for quite a while and they want Vehicle Tracking outputs to look as similar as possible to what they've been using.
This is what it would probably look like. Colors are per my guidelines and would need to be changed for yours. Let me know if this is sort of what you are looking to achieve. I have found that you can get it close but not exactly the way Autoturn presents it.
Vehicle Tracking calls the line you are after the "Path Line" and it is one of the path construction lines. It can be enabled and have its draw style changed in the report wizard or the path properties diagram.
I used to work with you at GTA for a brief period and I can't remember how we used to generate the swept path key. I have no issues generating the vehicle profile but can't seem to figure out the general swept path legend (key).
can anyone tell me how to show steering wheel arrow in print? I can see that arrow in drawing, but i want to show that in print, couldn't able to find a way to show it. Please anyone guide me with this.
When your talking steering arrow are you talking about an arrow showing the direction of the path, like seen in attached screen capture or the steering pointer that gives the angle of the wheels that you usually see in the beginning of the path?
Perfect. To do this the easy way, create a new report and call it Travel Arrows or Flow Arrows or something. Inside the report highlight the "Symbols" settings and select edit. If you look at the Report Settings image attached I highlighted the areas to focus on for the settings. First Select the "Spaced" tab. From here I select the "Show Evenly Spaced Outlines" to keep the travel arrows uniformly spaced in my vehicle movement. Next add the distance you would like to show the arrows in your movement. Can be any distance you would like but I usually use 100 or 200 feet spacing. The "Fill" check box will be if you want the arrow solid filled or hollow. Select per your desire. Last is where you select the color you want your arrows to be. Remember there are forward and reverse options so if you have a CAD standard you are using make sure you set each color appropriately. This will give you the arrows as seen in my previous posts picture. Hope this helps you out.
One thing to note is that the arrow is considered to be a construction line, by default they do not get drawn in paper space or plotted. If you need to plot them please enable the "Plot construction lines" option in the Vehicle Tracking view settings.
@spsluka And if I would want to make the steering pointer visible in a plot, how would we do that? I notice the steering pointer is visible in the model view and layout, but not in the plot preview. Is this normal behavior? I would like to be able to plot the steering pointer and percentage.
I'm working in 2018 C3D xrefing in files from an architect and getting the message to update vehicle tracking to 19.0j. I have installed the 2019 vehicle tracking object enabler to no avail. Do you know of a fix for this? The warning pops up a blue million times when opening or printing. It's an aggravation I don't need.
Hi there, I see an article that might help you solve this issue of the "Update to 19.0j Vehicle Tracking". I have an article from the AKN that addresses that issue, at least in description, as found here.
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