Autodesk InfraWorks

[#1]

We are constantly asking what elevation something is at, maybe a pad or mountain peak.

Is there a way to list an elevation for a point picked?

Maybe this is a tool I couild develop using AIM's API?

[#2]

Use the Range Finder...

This will give you the elevation at a point that is picked on the screen...

[#3]

That tool is not making sense for me.

I pick a point above my surface, and it shoots a line to the surface from some altitude, maybe determined by my zoom factor.

I get altitudes way too small, like 20.1 ft.

It does not seem suited to getting surface elevations at all, any ideas what its doing?

[#4]

That's really the only option that you have as far as I know.  Maybe next realease.  You can do a surface analysis, but I don't think that is what you're looking for.

[#5]

thanks for trying, I need to look at the API as I have other tasks like placing 3d models at surface elevation...

[#6]

You can use the Interactive Placing option to do that, unless you want to put it at a said elevation.  If that's the case, you're out of luck again.