Odd survey figure behavior

[Anonymous]

Some, of our survey figures are behaving oddly. I cannot snap to the ends
of them, nor can I obtain any inqury information from the beginning of the
survey figure to the first vertex. After the first vertex all is well,
before that....not so much.

This is very annoying when your trying to check a simple distance from the
edge of asphalt to a property corner

Any ideas why this is?

[Anonymous]

Ok maybe I dont understand the anticipated use of a survey figure. When I
turn my osnap options to include only 'END' I can only snap to a select few
vertexes (ENDS) of the survey figures.

Is the anticipated use of the survey figures to bring them in(in my case
they are all brought in and created through the fieldbook process), add them
to the surface and then explode them? Right now this is the only way I can
see that leaves a functional object in the drawing.

This just doesn't seem right if this is the case.

"mike hathaway" wrote in message
news:6401935@discussion.autodesk.com...
Some, of our survey figures are behaving oddly. I cannot snap to the ends
of them, nor can I obtain any inqury information from the beginning of the
survey figure to the first vertex. After the first vertex all is well,
before that....not so much.

This is very annoying when your trying to check a simple distance from the
edge of asphalt to a property corner

Any ideas why this is?

[ACADuser]

>Is the anticipated use of the survey figures to bring them in(in my case they are all brought in and created through the fieldbook process), add them to the surface and then explode them? Right now this is the only way I can see that leaves a functional object in the drawing.

Thats the same process we follow. Good thing autoesk did not add an extra step requiring us to also change the layer of each figure.

[Anonymous]

One side effect of this process (that I didn't notice before my prior post)
is that when you explode the survey figures it removes them from the
surface. ACADuser, how do you handle this? I want my survey figure
breaklines and a functional 2d or 3d polylines in the same drawing with
minimal effort like LDD.

wrote in message news:6402002@discussion.autodesk.com...
>Is the anticipated use of the survey figures to bring them in(in my case
>they are all brought in and created through the fieldbook process), add
>them to the surface and then explode them? Right now this is the only way I
>can see that leaves a functional object in the drawing.

Thats the same process we follow. Good thing autoesk did not add an extra
step requiring us to also change the layer of each figure.

[stacy.dunn]

You can change the build properties of the surface to make a copy of the breaklines. It is located in the definition tab of the surface properties. Look in build and it is the first option.

From help:

Copy Deleted Dependent Objects
Specifies whether a drawing object is copied to the surface definition item if the object is deleted:

Yes: Copies the drawing object data to the surface definition if you delete the drawing object data. When you add a surface boundary, breakline, or point group to a surface, the surface definition stores the Object ID. If the drawing object, such as the original polyline used to define the surface boundary, is deleted from the drawing, the coordinates of the polyline vertices are copied into the surface definition and saved. Thus, the surface boundary definition remains in the surface definition.
No: Deletes the surface boundary, breakline, or point group definition if the drawing object is deleted. The definition item is removed from the surface definition when the surface is rebuilt.
Exclude Elevations

[ACADuser]

We create the surface after the survey figures have been exploded (and flattened) and then add them to the surface as proximity breaklines.

[rl_jackson]

Why!