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Create Surface
To calculate and create a new surface from points, point lists, lineworks, areas.
Note: Read more information on how MAGNET Field uses points, lineworks, and areas in surface wireframe calculation depending on code and the Use in Surface code property.
The Input List on the left contains the objects that are used to calculate the surface position and triangulated wireframe and the plan view on the right displays the surface preview in the horizontal plane. The object highlighted in the list is also marked on the plan view. The
/
button can be used to toggle the plan view.
- Populate the Input list with points and /or other objects to use them in calculating the surface position and wireframe.
- From the
drop-down menu, select a type of object(s) to be added to the Input List:
- Choose Points to add points to the Input Data list for calculating the surface position and wireframe:
- Click the Add Points button to open and use the Point Selection drop-down menu with the following commands:
- All - add all the points from the current job.
- By Range - add points by specifying point name range(s).
- By Code - add points by point code name(s).
- By Code String - add points by code string.
- By Radius - add points which reside in a particular circle.
- By Name - add points by name or by part of name.
- By Layer - add points which belong to a particular layer.
- Alternatively, add points from the map
or from the list
of the job points.
- Choose Point List to add all the points from point list(s) to the Input List for calculating the surface position and wireframe:
- Enter a point list name and click
next to the entered name.
- Alternatively, add point list(s) from the catalog
of the point lists.
- Choose Linework to add linework(s) to the Input List for calculating the surface position and wireframe:
- Enter a linework name and click
next to the entered name.
- Alternatively, add linework(s) from the map
or from the list
of the job lineworks.
- Choose Area to add area(s) to the Input List list for calculating the best fit position of the plane:
- Enter an area name and click
next to the entered name.
- Alternatively, add area(s) from the map
or from the list
of the job areas.
- Review the Input List, remove points and / or other objects from the list:
- From the
drop-down menu, select a type of object(s) to be displayed in the Input List.
- Highlight an object name and click
next to the list to remove highlighted object(s) from the list.
- Use the context menu to simplify multiple objects highlighting with the following commands:
- Select All - highlights all the objects displayed.
- Select All Below - highlights a currently highlighted object and all the objects displayed below.
- Select Multiple - highlights multiple objects by sequential clicking on object names.
- Cancel Selection - removes all the highlights from objects displayed.
- To obtain information about one point, highlight the point and click
.
- Check the Custom boundary box and click the activated Edit Boundary button to open the dialog to customize the automatically generated outer boundary of the surface.
Note: The Custom Boundary option is disabled if the area that defines the outer boundary of the surface is added to the Input List. More...
- In the Results tab, review the details of surface calculation according to currently added data in the Input List and click
to save the data to a *.txt file if required:
- 2D Area - the area occupied by the surface in the horizontal plane;
- 3D Area - the sum of the areas of all the triangles that form the wireframe of the surface;
- Num Edges, Num Triangles, Num Points - the number of respective elements in the measured surface wireframe;
- Omitted Points - points added to the Input List but not used in the wireframe calculation;
- Max / Min Coordinates - extreme coordinate values of the calculated surface.
- The Map tab shows the job's objects with the illustration for the results and supports generation of a field report with the results of calculation (use the Create Field Report command from the context menu).
- The Drawing tab shows the illustration for the results and supports generation of a field report with the results of calculation (use the Create Field Report command from the context menu).
- After all desired objects are added and arranged and the plan view displays the desired triangulated wireframe, click
in the dialog title bar to accept the shown surface and enter the name, layer and plotting style for this surface:
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