[Therion] DistoX and PocketTopo with Therion

[Wookey]

+++ Martin Sluka [2009-04-20 17:05 +0200]:
>
> On 20.4.2009, at 16:51, Footleg wrote:
>
>> Therion export file in a plain text editor, but could not determine  
>> the actual survey data from the sketches (I am not an experienced  
>> Therion user).
>
> Therion export file from PockeTopo is an intermediate format. 

Indeed. Pockettopo puts out threee slightly different text files, none
of which is actually in therion or survex format. The one intended
for toporobot is closest to one you could use directly in survex.

I don't really understand why it outputs something called 'therion
export' which is not in therion format. 

In another message, decribing the process you say:
"At base camp, or at home you export data from EasyTopo and import
both data and sketches into Therion."

Easytopo? Where does that come from - or is that a typo for pockettopo?

Therion 5.2.7 comes with a pt2pdf.pl script which does a direct
conversion of the 'therion' pockettopo export file into a PDF file
containing the data in 3 column format and then the actual
rendered plan and elevation, over 4 pages.

I guess that's useful as something you could import and draw over,
but it seems useless for importing the actual data. It is this script I
rewrote to just turn the 'therion export' format file into something which
therion could actually understand directly. 

I get the feeling that I am missing something here...

Who writes PocketTopo? Is the code available so we could just make it
directly export both survex and therion data? (and so we could port it
to Linux perhaps). 

Wookey
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