inroads xm manual surface manipulations

7/31/2019 InRoads XM Manual Surface Manipulations

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InRoads XM Manual SurfaceManipulations


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Surface Created From Graphics Need Exterior Boundary

Imported breaklines and points from graphics.

Triangulated and displayed triangles.

Problem triangles in areas where no shots were taken.


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Surface Created From Graphics

The Steps:

1. Surface > Edit Surface > Delete Triangle; select the surface

and click [Apply].Data point inside the inner most triangle, then data point outside the outer mosttriangle, drawing a line across a lot of triangles to be deleted. Accept with a datapoint anywhere. (New in XM the graphics of the triangles delete, aswell as the triangles stored in the binary DTM yay!)

Youve just performed an InRoads function and a MicroStation function also. AnUndo in MicroStation will bring back the graphics of the triangles only.


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The Steps:

3. InRoads File > Import > Surface

Set the dialog up as shown; make sure Point Type is set to Exterior, and click[Apply].

Select the perimeter and accept the import.


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The Steps:

4. Surface > Triangluate Surface Select the surface and click

[Apply].5. Surface > View Surface > Triangles Select the surface, set

the symbology, and click [Apply].

6. InRoads File > Save > Surface

The exterior boundary can be easily deleted from the surface using: Surface >Edit Surface > Delete Feature


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The Steps:

1. Surface > Edit Surface > Join Features; follow the prompts

in the MicroStation Status Bar and select first one feature; accept; and thenselect the second feature; accept. The features will be joined and redisplayed.The name of the second feature will no longer appear in the feature properties ofthe surface it has been incorporated into the feature name of the feature thatwas selected first.


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The Steps:

2. continued When done inserting and moving points, click

[Apply]. The feature will be re-drawn (or drawn if it has not been yet) graphically.We can see in the image above that I had been locating on the graphics thatwere used to draw the perimeter. When I clicked [Apply], the modified featurenamed Exterior was drawn with its style Default (color 0).


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The Steps:

3. Use Surface > Triangulate Surface; select the surface and

click [Apply].4. Use Surface > View Surface > Triangles; select the surface,

set the symbology, and click [Apply].

5. Save the surface.

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