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- posted 08/14/07 by Jack Strongitharm Reusable Surface Levelling and the Big 50
- No not age just yet but this is the 50th edition of this blog site!
A big thank you to everyone who has been reading with us since the start of the year and absorbing the information that Ove and myself have been posting.
Also a big thank you to Chris Berends for his initial participation and creation of the concept with me over a glass of red wine !
Here's to the next 50 !! Cheers
As I have shown in earlier posts you can show the areas of cut and fill using a Tin Volume Surface and applying two ranges and specify levels for colour shades.
Using the same technique you can show a range of dig and or fill layers, just levels for depths and fills etc.
So wouldn’t it be nice if you could save those ranges to use again on the next job?
Well now you can!!
A developer in Germany called Udo Huebner has created a LISP routine that does the trick.
To get hold of this use the link below into the Community Site to access the file from the Utilities section of the site.
Download the Utility
To operate the tool use the following commands
TransferElevations, ExportElevations and ImportElevations
Export
Changed the ranges and then import from the file
Result
Text file editing
100mm Layers to the first 1m and then beyond
This will start to make your minds tick, any of you who deal with volumes day to day
Jack Strongitharm
User Comments
Jack, I get the following error:
Command: transferelevations
Transfer surface elevation analysis dataSelect source surface:Select target
surface:
Select objects: 1 found
Select objects: ; error: bad argument type: VLA-OBJECT nil
Posted 10/19/2007 11:25 AM by Lisa Pohlmeyer
nm, I hadn't done an elevation analysis, just a slope analysis. Can this be configured to do slope output? I"m no programmer. TIA
Posted 10/19/2007 11:58 AM by Lisa Pohlmeyer
this is awesome, thanks a lot.
Posted 1/31/2008 3:25 PM by Bob Wang
This looks great - but I am having trouble with my system recognizing the TransferElevations, ExportElevations and ImportElevations commands.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Posted 4/8/2008 3:45 PM by Victoria Partridge