Surveyor's plan plugin
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Hi
My collegue and I are looking for a plugin that can understand a surveyor's plan.
Our process from passing a surveyor's plan to sketchup takes us too long. We try to triangulate all the points that are given to us. The result is a triangle faced surface which is something we just dont like.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Hi Yuls, have you tried any existing ruby plugins, or are you writing your own? Didier has a script that takes a file of 3d points (surveryor points) and then turns them into a terrain.
Scroll down and look for cloud_6.rb or something like that. It also has a pdf tutorial on how to use the script.
As for the triangles, you will most likely always have triangles when creating a Digital Terrain Model (DTM), because terrain models are TIN's (Triangulated Irregular Network). The only way to really represent the groundplane is by drawing a triangle between every surveyor point. Unless you have an illustration of something different that your are trying to achieve?
Chris
PS, maybe we could split this topic out into its own thread.
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What would be very useful would be to have a method that, given an EntityID, returns the entity object.
The reason is that only the EntityID is preserved across Undos and abort_operation, whereas ruby object references are not. Without this function it is quite hard to follow successive changes in the selection, because the selection is not updated (or restored) for new faces, and sometimes edges.Fredo
PS: I of course tried the Entities observer, but it does not survive very long to transformations performed by the Ruby API methods, such as Transform_by_vectors, etc... and abort_operation: bug splat almost guaranteed.
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@unknownuser said:
What would be very useful would be to have a method that, given an EntityID, returns the entity object.
I second this. My reasons is that I can easier communicate with webdialogs.
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