I was asked to lable survey data with the (2D) distance between the design surface and the survey points of the finished ground.
Does any one know a command that could make this easy.
Let me know if you need any further information.
Thank you!
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The 2D distance? So you have points which are at some location horizontally away from the surface and you want to report the distance to that surface?
Confused here.
Yes, this report is only interested in the horizontal geometry. How far the points are from the surface without factoring elevation.
I should put a label of the horizontal distance to the surface next to each point. There are a ton of points though so I don't want to do it manually point by point.
The only way I can see to do this would be an offset label from an alignment. Extract your surface boundary and convert it into an alignment. You'll need some way to label the cogo points with an offset value. I believe that the Sincpac tools include a way to do this, but maybe someone else has a better suggestion.
Steve
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Hi
* you can create an additional surface from the points you want to label.
* create 3. surface which is TIN volume surface (the difference between 2 surface)
* copy your points that you want to label and make the points get elevations from the difference surface you created last.
I hope this helps.
umit
That would be an awesome technique for finding the difference in elevation. All they are asking for on this report is the horizontal distance though.
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
Here is a screen shot with the surface and the points that I am talking about.
The horizontal distance from the point to the surface edge is what I would like to find.
Thanks
Create the alignment along edge of surface as mentioned and go to Toolspace>Toolbox>Reports Manager>Points>Station Offset to Points>Create Report.
Text can then be copied from browser>pasted to excel etc.
I don't think you can do it using only the tools in Civil 3D. Users have been asking for a point label option that includes offsets for a long time now.
Steve
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Sorry, I didn't catch the part about labeling. I'm not aware of any means to label in an automated fashion using OOTB C3d.