Could you use a LIST, ATTRIBUTE, and BLOCK to automatically calculate spot elevation data by using the Formula and Conversion factors in the Block settings?
Let's say you went out and shot grades of and L-shaped parking lot. You used two benchmarks down the long axis of each L. A list of 'heights' in feet and inches from Benchmark A and Benchmark B are documented (yardstick and laser site).
Benchmark B is 7" less then Benchmark A but both need to be converted from feet and inches to decimal feet. Basically you're taking List A and setting a numerical value from one value X set at 100.000 and converting feet and inches to decimal feet. List B is the same as A except you are also subtracting (***adding in decimal feet*** 7 inches)
For example, Benchmark A is at 6'-3 1/4" and this is set to 100.000 (Benchmark B is 7" less: 5'-8 1/4").
A list of other grades follow from these benchmarks (example below) but you wish to have the LIST, ATT, and BLOCK commands auto label the spot elevations which are individual text objects in decimal feet:
Benchmark A: (6'-3 1/4" = 100.00)
spot 1: 4'-9 1/8" yields (101.51)
spot 2: 4'-0" yields (102.28)
spot 3: 4'-7 1/2" yields (101.63)
catch basin B: (5'-8 1/4" = 100.000) (7" less)
4' - 1 1/8" yields (101.40)
4'- 4 3/4" yields (101.10)
4- 10 3/4" yields (100.95)
Notice how as the stick measurements in feet and inches go down the elevation benchmark data goes up.
Just curious.
