Featureline Elevation and Grade Display Toggle

[KPerison]

For featureline creation and editing there are a couple ways to identify the vertex elevations and grades.

1. Elevation Editor Panorama: it is useful, but difficult to identify which vertex or tangent grade you are editing and is disconnected visually from what you are editing.

 

2. Quick Elevation Edit Button: This is also a handy tool that allows you to see and edit the elevation or grade directly onscreen by clicking on the vertex or tangent.  Yes, useful, but you can only see the single elevation or grade you are hovering over.

 

 

3. Create Line and Curve Labels: Last is to create your own labels that add the start/end elevations and a grade label on the tangents. Must create separate labels for curves.  Labeling is the only option to see the information fulltime. 

It is time consuming and adds needless extra content in your dwgs.

A big drawback to "Labeling" is, if you add another vertex somewhere along the featureline - All the labels shuffle to the left each time you add a vertex. Leaving the last segment to require re-labeling.

THE SOLUTION:

Add a new button to the Featureline Modify ribbon to toggle on/off temp graphics that label the slopes/elevations for all feature lines.

Perhaps it can by applied to only a certain site or certain featurelines within that site.

Add a new property to featurelines that would either Enable/Disable this new toggle of the temp graphics for that featureline. Then the user can control which featurelines show their information.

Add a C3D settings for this toggle feature that would control the:

- size of text

- color of text

- decimals for elevation and grade/slope

- preference for Grade or Slope display

- only show temp graphics below a certain screen zoom height.

I feel this would eliminate a lot of labeling and management of text that is not even required. 

[kim_larsonCCNGK]

This is a great idea, thank you for identifying it.