[re-sent due to email address error] I am looking for some advice on the best way to add the profile of the ground surface to a cave elevation (for pdf export). Apologies if this is in the book and I've missed it. Currently, I have the background colour as a light grey, with cave the foreground in white. This works well, is easy to read and looks good. Sample section here : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4064739/draft_section_18may2013.pdf Assuming I can draw the ground profile, is there a simple way to change the colour above the ground (i.e. the sky) to white too? If not, and it's better to make everything white, what is the most consistent way to draw the ground profile as a line in a scrap? Should I be using a 'walls' line but inside-out or is there a better/correct way to do this? Any help much appreciated, Steve
Steve I'll be interested to see if anyone has managed to create a ground line as you describe. I assume it is not possible to make it a boundary for the background colour. I have just tried taking a 3d gps trail with 2m resolution and then including it as a survey line and this can be included to give context in Loch, Aven and pdf outputs. Not sure how well it would work with extended elevations though - I have only tried it with projected elevations. It adds interesting context to plans and elevations, but best with a white background in elevations. It is quick to produce, but seems a little clunky. If anyone has a better way to include gps trails in therion data I would like to learn of it. Some snippets below to show what I mean. Bruce centreline cs lat-long grade BCRA3 walls off # 3D model auto = only use LRUD if no scrap available # on off mark temporary flags surface #do fixed stations inherit shot flags? # station-names 4wd01 [] # to avoid name clashes if required fix 1 -42.0001724 171.9024155 572.6 fix 2 -42.00020492 171.9022789 574.04 fix 3 -42.00021414 171.9021513 574.04 fix 4 -42.00026879 171.9020413 575.01 fix 5 -42.00030752 171.901925 575.01 #thousands of these, they are decimal degrees and metres data nosurvey from to 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 #thousands of these as well, a spreadsheet makes them easy to generate #Then just select this survey along with your cave when processing
You may read altitudes of points from GoogleEarth. A macro may help. Grey and white PDF you may create from dummy scrap and then crop the final PDF file. M. S. Odesláno z iPhonu 31. 8. 2013 v 21:50, Bruce <bruce@tomo.co.nz>:
Steve I'll be interested to see if anyone has managed to create a ground line as you describe. I assume it is not possible to make it a boundary for the background colour.
I have just tried taking a 3d gps trail with 2m resolution and then including it as a survey line and this can be included to give context in Loch, Aven and pdf outputs. Not sure how well it would work with extended elevations though - I have only tried it with projected elevations. It adds interesting context to plans and elevations, but best with a white background in elevations.
It is quick to produce, but seems a little clunky. If anyone has a better way to include gps trails in therion data I would like to learn of it.
Some snippets below to show what I mean. Bruce
centreline cs lat-long grade BCRA3
walls off # 3D model auto = only use LRUD if no scrap available # on off mark temporary flags surface #do fixed stations inherit shot flags? # station-names 4wd01 [] # to avoid name clashes if required
fix 1 -42.0001724 171.9024155 572.6 fix 2 -42.00020492 171.9022789 574.04 fix 3 -42.00021414 171.9021513 574.04 fix 4 -42.00026879 171.9020413 575.01 fix 5 -42.00030752 171.901925 575.01 #thousands of these, they are decimal degrees and metres
data nosurvey from to 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 #thousands of these as well, a spreadsheet makes them easy to generate
#Then just select this survey along with your cave when processing
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