TransDEM Forum

Hi All,
I accidentally deleted one of my Tiles, I forgot to re-lock the layer where the tiles are kept.
The route I'm building is rather large, covering all of South Wales, UK. The tile deleted is important as it contains a number of points (switches) on a complicated junction.
The tile in question was still in my export folder, but when I reloaded it into my route (the only one I currently have) the tile loaded but wasn't placed in position, it was also facing the wrong direction.
I only selected the 'Scenery Folder' from my export folder. containing just the tile I deleted. (the others I moved to a 'Temp Folder').
I would hate to start again, so do I import the whole 'Export Folder', the single tile or the scenery folder ?
I did open my route for edit in the CM. The original tiles are from Google Earth and I used the correct 1000 grid setting.
Apparently, I must be doing something wrong, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, as my route progresses, I may want to add more tiles, Again, do I import the whole export folder. IE: Will TransDem simply overwrite the Existing contents or ignore what is already loaded.

Thanks in advance for any help
Peter

Peter, you have at least two options to fix this.

The moment you delete the tile in Surveyor, it disappears from your route, but not from your asset data base.

Therefore, the first option is to simply select the tile from the available objects ("Objects" flyout in Surveyor) and place it where it belongs. The anchor point is always on a 1000 m UTM grid line intersection. For a 500m tile this means it has to be rotated by 90°, 180° or 270° if it is not the SW corner.


The other option is to add the tile again in TransDEM. For this you need to open the route for edit in Trainz Content Manager. Before you do that make sure that the editing folder does not already have a sub-folder with the same name as your route.

In TransDEM export the UTM tile in question to the route just opened for edit from Content Manager. Use "overwrite, keep KUID". In this case, and with the previous tile still in the "scenery" folder, TransDEM will reuse that KUID.

You can then go back to Content Manager and commit the changes, even without adding the newly created tile. TransDEM will have added the tile object reference to the proper location in the route, with the KUID of the original tile object still in the asset data base.

Hi Roland,
Thanks for the advice.
Sorry about the late reply, other duties have prevented me from computer work.
Once again, many thanks.
Peter.