December 2009 - Therion

DistoX and PocketTopo with Therion
by Bruce Mutton 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Hi there I have a Disto arriving hopefully in a few days, and looking ahead I've been tentatively trialling PocketTopo on my PC. I suspect therein lies my first problem. Perhaps it only has limited functionality on PC's? I can manually enter data, but I can not seem to draw passage outline. The Export Therion format does not seem to produce data in a format similar to what Therion normally accepts - after the data it produces some form of co-ords separated into plan and elevation partitions. Most of the survey stations are converted to 10 digit numbers and all of the keywords are in capitals. Much of the file content could be made Therion compatible relatively easily using a text editor, but surely this is not what is intended? Obviously there is something significant here that I am missing. Have searched about but have not found the solution yet. Does anyone have a small dataset that demonstrates the interaction between PocketTopo and Therion? Bruce

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Explored always zero in continuation list
by Bruce 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

Have just noticed that 'explored lengths' are always reported as zero in continuation-list, They are correctly reported in caves-list and surveys-list. Bruce

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Transparent Labels and Hyperlinks in Labels
by Carl Magnuson 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

These are two features that I would like to make use of and may already be possible, I just don't know how its done. I have played around with custom metapost cide for making labels with a transparent background and can either make a therion label with a colored background or a label with a transparent background but none of the Therion text formatting. Has anybody coded a transparent label for Therion? My second thought is about hyperlinks from within a label. For example one may want to label a significant feature and also include a link to a flickr photo or online video of the feature. This may already be possible by just inserting some Latex code, but I'm not sure what kind of processing Therion does on the label text. Thanks, Carl

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Problems with export pdf file
by piotr_szukala 27 Dec '09

27 Dec '09

Hi! I have been using Therion for some time and during surveying one map I met a problem with exporting pdf files. Everything is OK when I'm exporting lox file, even with full models of corridors, but during exporting pdf file the error has occured: ##################### end of pdftex log file ##################### C:\Program Files\Therion\therion.exe: error -- cp exit code -- 1 writing xtherion file ... done What does it mean and how to resolve this problem? Best regards Piotr Szukała Poland

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Cubic meters as a new parameter in caves documentation
by piotr_szukala 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi! I’m trying to apply new parameter in caves documentation in Austrian Tennengebirge Ost and Polish Tatra Mountains. It could occur how big actually is a cave system and could help in a few scientific investigations as a cracks and hiatuses in limestone massif. Is there any possibility to read off cubic capacity in m3 from model 3D? Best regards Piotr Szukała Poland

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windows_7_and_cave_survey_programs
by Kiril Stoyankov 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

Cave mapping software and Windows 7 I am planning to install the new Windows 7, and I wanted to ask if anyone has tried some cave mapping programs with it. Do you know if any of these work or don't work with Windows 7? TunnelX Tunnel2 Compass Walls Survex Therion VisualTopo Onstation Speleoliti GHTopo ... Regards Kiril ----------------------------------------------------------------- Вижте водещите новини от Vesti.bg! http://www.vesti.bg

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bug report
by Vasily Vl. Suhachev 02 Dec '09

02 Dec '09

Hello I am found some bugs, 5.2.14 XTherion 1) text in "Help->Controls..." for russian translation must be in CP-1251 (now in UTF-8) 2) slash in "command line options" editbox now must be doubled, example: -p ..\\.. 3) scrollbar of side panel initialized incorrect at first time after .th2 file opened 4) jumping from compiler log cause error when jump target (line nember in .th2) denote on line without line points 5) after change point type to "station" the field "orientation" not cleared 6) short-cuts not worked when I switch keyboard to native language 7) points changed their types to "station" when I set them close to XVI station node Therion 1) line command whth one line point cause infinite loop while compiling with message: [Warning: unable to determine direction on zero-length path in scrap S-800-1@] 2) When station connects to other stations which not present as point:station in map(but present in centerline) Therion draw line:survey anyway and some features be good to implement: 1) multiple installations of Therion at one system (at this time second installation to different folder corrupt the first one) 2) new command in thconfig, analogue to "-p" Therion command line option -- WBR, Vasily

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Increasing Metapost 4096 scrap limit
by Carl Magnuson 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

I am getting close to the limit of 4096 scraps for Metapost which is mentioned in the Therion book and I have ran into it in some cases. It looks like this is a setting in Metapost that must be changed and not Therion, but I was hoping maybe others had ran into this and knew what modifications are needed to Metapost to accept more scraps. Thanks, Carl

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