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How to extend surface in stakeout
Needed: a Reference Surface to extend perpendicular to a reference centerline. For that, take the following steps:
- Select Stake > Point.
- Choose a point that is outside of the surface that can be extended.
- From the
menu, Select Setup > Reference CL.
- Enable and select the centerline to extend the surface with.
- Click
to save the settings.
- From the
menu, select Setup > Reference Surface.
- Enable the Use reference surface option.
- Select the surface to extend.
- Select the Extend perpendicular to reference CL option.
- Click
to save the settings.
- Click Stake to begin stakeout using the extended surface.
Notes:
- When staking a slope, a road, or a real-time road using the extended surface, the perpendicular to the selected alignment will be used to extend the surface with.
- When staking a surface, the menu items Setup > Reference Surface are changed to Setup > Reference Alignment to select either a road, or a horizontal alignment to use the extended surface.
- Other object types, such as lines, curves, spirals, points in direction, and point lists, can use the extended surface feature.
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