The Criteria2000 library is the first to be written with Project Manager in mind. Previous versions of the NCDOT Criteria Library could not be run under the Geopak Project Manager; for several reasons.

1. English and Metric Projects The NCDOT library was designed to function on Metric and English projects alike, the inclusion of the proper Standard definition file was necessary to define english or metric values for a multitude of defined variables that are used by the entire library. This inclusion statement had to occur before the first CRITERIA FOR SHAPE CLUSTER statement. Project Manager does not make provision for any inclusions outside of the CRITERIA FOR SHAPE CLUSTER statements. Therefore, to run the criteria exclusively from Project Manager would have required that there be two separate libraries, one with english values and one with metric values. Further complicating this was the fact that those two libraries would have to exist in two separate folders. This situation would have required changing the inclusion path. Of course, another alternative would have been to place both libraries in the same folder and rename each file according to english or metric; I.E. E_tmplt01.cri and M_tmplt01.cri.

2. Variable definition would have been a nightmlare. Project Manager requires that variable definition be done through it's dialogs. It accomplishes this by searching all the included criteria files and offering a list of all the defined variables for the user to provide values. The NCDOT criteria library contained approximately 600 unique variables. Of these, about 580 were default defined by the standard definition files (which could not be used under Project Manager). Therefore - you, the user, would have had to provide the value definition for ALL of these variables.