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- posted 05/05/07 by Daniel Philbrick Command for Tracking Cursor Position (Where did it go!)
- This week I have been is Salzburg, Austria assisting in training the resellers on Civil 3D 2008. Great things happening in Europe with Civil 3D, but that is the topic of another post. Several of the European users who were involved in the Civil 3D 2008 Beta asked about the new feature which let you simultaneously visualize the cursor’s position in plan, profile, and section views. They did not see it in the released version of 2008!
The feature is still there, it is just not documented. We still have more work to do to refine the behavior, but we still wanted to release the functionality in ’08. Here are some details on the commands.
When a tool tip for a horizontal alignment can be computed, and one or more profile views for the same horizontal alignment are in the drawing, a temporary line is drawn in each profile view at the station defined by the orthogonal projection of the cursor onto the horizontal alignment. The temporary line is drawn to the full height of the profile view, and moves as the cursor moves.
When the cursor is within a profile view, a temporary line is drawn orthogonal to the horizontal alignment at the cursor’s station. As the cursor’s position changes in the profile view, the temporary line’s position is redrawn at the new station location.
When the cursor is within a cross-section view, a temporary line is drawn orthogonal to the horizontal alignment at the station of the cross-section view. Additionally, a vertical line is drawn in each profile view that is a child of the horizontal alignment. The vertical line is drawn at the station of the cross-section view.
There are three new commands that control this feature:
HideDrawingTips – turns the feature completely off
ShowDrawingTips – turns the feature on for the current view port only
ShowDrawingTipsFull – turns the feature on for all view ports
This is a per drawing setting, so one drawing can have them turned off, and another can have them active.
You will notice a flicker in the frame of the windows if you use the ShowDrawingTipsFull command. This is something that we are aware of and would like to resolve before making it an “official command”. If you have feedback on this functionality, please let me know.
Dan
