quick move points to adjacent plines

[Anonymous]

I`m looking for a quick and easy wasy to move mulitple points at once to an adajcent pline. i added and attachment below, you can see the points fall real close to the plines. any help would be greatful 

[Jay_B]

Based on the attached image it doesn't look possible to select all points shown and move all points at once to  properly fit the green polylines, (assuming the nodes are to match the polyline vertices's or line up w/ pline).

[Anonymous]

that is correct. the points fall close to the plines once imported and i have to manually move every individual point either to the adjacent endpoint or nearest pline intersection. we were hoping for some type of quick command to move the points to the closest plines.

[Jay_B]

As far as I know there is not, they would need to be moved individually.

[wfberry]

At some point the question needs to be asked:

1. Why do you need points if you already have nodes?

or

2  It is easier to import points along the pline than move the existing.

Bill

[Anonymous]

the nodes have no value, except horizontally. the points hold the z value for us. we are land surveyors running two scanners. this is the most efficient way we have found to process the point cloud data. we draw plines in cad from the cloud, take topographic shots in the cloud, then move them to the adjacent plines back in cad. they have to move the points to make the tin/surface match the plines and make the survey look beautiful.    

[TerryDotson · Accepted solution]

Our MapWorks Points module has a Point Line Snap tool that will work on a selection of AECC points and multiple linear geometry (such as polylines).  It can optionally retain the point elevation or acquire the elevation of the snapped point.  An offset tolerance throws out points too far away from the geometry.

[doni49]

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@Anonymous wrote:

the nodes have no value, except horizontally. the points hold the z value for us. we are land surveyors running two scanners. this is the most efficient way we have found to process the point cloud data. we draw plines in cad from the cloud, take topographic shots in the cloud, then move them to the adjacent plines back in cad. they have to move the points to make the tin/surface match the plines and make the survey look beautiful.    

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It sounds like you want the pline to be used as a break line and you want the points to provide the elevation data for that pline.  Correct?

Create a featureline out of the pline and tell it to add elevation points.  Every location where the pline crosses the triangles that the points generated, an elevation point will be inserted along the featureline.

[doni49]

Here's a couple dwg files for you to play with to see what I mean.  Before.dwg shows just a basic EG surface and a pline.  I copied that file as After.dwg and converted the pline to a featureline and added elevation points per the screenshots.

[Anonymous]

this module works great. i like the option for the offset tolerance in the point line snap. also, i like which options you can select in the point snap to geomerty command. it would be a perfect module for us if they combined both of these into one option, which first (primary) set an endpoint tolerance within 2 ft then second if no end point it would jump the nearest. one last option we would like is a ghost node showing where it came from. other than that this might save us some time for now. thanks for your help

[TerryDotson]

Can you email me a small portion of the drawing (same part you showed the capture of) so I can work with it and see if we can combine the tools.  Maybe copy the small area off to the side and show before/after (after being your ideal results).

[Anonymous]

Iappreciate all the help