CADD Support: MDOT MX  Add-Ins

A variety of Add-ins have been developed for use with MX at MDOT. Several of these have been incorporated into our customized MX Menu structure. They are listed under their various menu headings below.

These Add-Ins have been updated to work with both imperial and metric units.  They are packaged in Add-Ins.zip, which can be downloaded from the link here, or from the MDOT MX Downloads Page.

Under Design Menu

  • MDOT Driveway Design.exe - An add-in to help design perpendicular driveway entrances in accordance with MDOT Standard Details and specifications.

  • MDOT Geometry Strings.exe - A tool to use in creating a PENT string with points terminal ends of curbing, and a PCBH string with points at the center of each proposed catch basin location.

  • MDOT Urban Match.exe - MDOT's Urban Match Add-In was developed to provide a means to easily create interface strings for urban projects by user-specified station and offset values where it's not necessary to hold a constant cross slope over a long range of stations.

Under Draw Menu

  • MDOT Create Alignment Drawing.exe- This application will create an alignment drawing and launch the MDOT DAB Add-In to generate an MDOT Alignment Report on the alignments included in the drawing.

  • MDOT Draw Plan Pages.exe - Creates sheeted plan drawings in a color scheme that dithers well to grayscale when plotted. Requires the creation of an MX Plan Page Layout before use.

  • MDOT Draw Cross Sections.exe - Creates a multi-paged cross section drawing, in MDOT's standard format, for plotting or translation to MicroStation.

  • MDOT Create-Draw Profile.exe - Creates a multi-paged profile drawing for plotting or translation to MicroStation.

Under Report Menu

  • MDOT Vertical Alignment Report.exe - This application will produce a custom vertical alignment report in MDOT's standard format.

  • MDOT DAB.exe - This application will produce a custom horizontal alignment report in MDOT's standard format.

  • MDOT Geometry Reports.exe - This application is used to generate custom reports and tables to be incorporated into MDOT's Geometry Sheets.

  • MDOT Station-Offset.exe - Creates a station-offset report in MDOT's standard format.

  • MDOT Elevation Difference.exe - This application will produce a report listing differences in elevation between the proposed vertical alignment and the existing ground.

Under Personal Add-Ins Menu

  • MX Survey Processing - An add-in which provides an interface to the programs used in the various steps in processing our survey data from SDMS into MX. This add-in, and the programs it calls, are highly customized to our particular workflow and conventions.

  • MDOT Survey Setout.exe - This add-in generates an input file of horizontal angles and distances from traverse points to the points to be laid out.

  • MDOT Limits.exe - Finds the ranges of point numbers used in the data collector (PRJ) files. This application helps to determine what point number should be used to start additional survey on the project.

  • MDOT Ditch Fix.exe - A tool for Survey Editors to use in correcting the direction of DL (Ditch Line) and CU (Centerline of rUn) strings. Identifies strings which flow "uphill" and strings with mixed grades. Interactively reverses strings and updates our GROUND**.INP file.

  • MDOT Traverse Strings.exe - An add-in to view certain data from our Traverse.inp files and to assist in breaking and converting our older PSSA traverse strings into Cadastre strings in accordance with our current standard.

  • MDOT Point Info.exe - A custom Status dialog which gives additional information, including the string's bearing at the point and which "ground" input file a point comes from.

  • AddStation.exe - An add-in to insert a station point into an alignment.

  • MDOT Make ALI.exe - An add-in to make the alignment file for field layout with SDMS.

See our MX Design Manual and our User Notes for documentation on the use of these Add-Ins.

The zip file may contain additional Add-Ins, which are less commonly used and may be either outdated or preliminary versions.

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This page updated July, 2007