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posted 02/22/08 by Ove Cervin Sorting Point Groups
Hello again,
Sorry I have been a bit quite... There is a lot coming up soon, which has been my focus for some time ;-)
Here in Sweden I can actually say now that it is not "pitch black" anymore in the morning when I head for office or airport. Nice! Spring will be here within a month, finally... one day with snow this "winter" in Gothenburg. Too bad.

Below I want to mention a way to handle Survey Points stored in Point Groups.
When I import a Survey .FBK and sort the Points in to several Point Groups I might want to use some Point Groups for my creation of a TIN, but not all.
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As I have several Point Groups in the drawing I have to pick which one to be used for my Surface.
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Include Point Groups for the Surface.
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Selecting which Groups to get there. Imagine selecting ten, thirty or more Point Groups - not great...
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Instead - create a separate Point Group first.
Call it "TIN", "TIN data" or something.
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Under the Tab "Point Groups" you can select the Point Groups that will go in to this "major" Point Group.
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Then it is much easier to select only one Point Group for the Surface.
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Have a nice weekend! Cheers / Ove

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  • User Contours

    Posted 02/01/08 by Ove Cervin

    Hello again,
    Now back again from the Gunslinger Jack mentioned. That WAS an exiting week. I'm REALLY looking forward to all new things coming up... ;-)
    I'm also looking forward to the Easter Holiday as I am a big fan of skiing downhill. I will go to my brothers place in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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    Anyway - here's a tip on something I didn't find myself. There's always tools and settings in C3D which is a little more hidden than others... A colleague mentioned where to find this. Thanks Peter Funk ;-)
    If you have a Volume Surface (or general Surface as well) where you want to present custom/user defined contours to use for area calculations etc, here's a way to do that.

    In this case the customer wanted to calculate the area for some volumes within a range.
    Sample below shows a Volume TIN Surface.
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    To show also the contours for the very same range/interval you can do like this.
    Go to the Surface Style for this Surface and turn on "User Contours" under the Tab "Display".
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    Then go to the Surface Properties and the Tab "Analysis".
    Choose Analysis type "Elevations" - set color range.
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    Then select the Analysis type "User-defined contours" and set the interval where you want the contours to display.
    Set range/interval
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    This will present your Volume Surface with also a Contour between the color ranges in the analysis.
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    Then you can use (Surface menu - Utilities), Extract Objects from Surface.
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    Have a nice weekend!

    Cheers / Ove Cervin

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