The Polyline Editor is activated anytime the user right-clicks a polyline in the project tree and selects Edit. The Polyline editor can also be launched from The Action Tab when the current mode is Polyline Creation. Simply highlight a polyline to make it active and select the Edit button.
Along the top is a toolbar with several icons. The icons and their corresponding functions are as follows:
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Move Vertices up will move the selected vertex or vertices up one position each time it is clicked. |
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Move Vertices Down will move the selected vertex or vertices down one position each time it is clicked. |
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Add Vertex brings up a dialog that allows you to specify the properties of a new vertex to add. |
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Edit Vertex brings up the edit vertex dialog which allows you to change properties of the currently selected vertex. |
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Delete Vertices deletes the currently selected vertex or vertices. |
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Import Vertices brings up the Carlson file selection dialog. |
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Export Vertices brings up the ASCII file export dialog. |
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Transform allows you to define a transformation sequence to apply to the vertices. |
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Coordinate System allows you to choose the coordinate system the positions values are in (Global or any current scan positions). |
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Settings allow you to configure what properties of the vertices are visible in the spreadsheet control. |
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Help brings up help documentation. |
Clicking the Add Vertices button will bring up the add vertices dialog.
X, Y, and Z are the x, y, and z coordinates
values for the new vertex to be added.
Type can be either Basic or Coordinate Point
Reference.
The Reference Panel is activated when the vertex type is set
to Coordinate Point Reference.
Clicking the import button will bring up the Carlson file selection dialog. Three file types are support for polyline import; TXT, PLN and CL.
Clicking the export button will bring up the export vertex dialog, which will allow you to export the data to several different file formats.
Simply click the check boxes next to the data elements that you wish to export. To change the order of the data elements in the file, select the data element you wish to move and click the up or down arrow to move it. The File panel determines which file format to export to and also allows you to specify an extension other than the default for a given file format. The Text panel features options for exporting to the selected text file type. Delimiter determines the divider between data elements in the file. Write header specifies whether to write a header line to the file detailing the data ordering of the file.
The Settings button will bring up the Polyline Editor Settings dialog, which will allow the user to configure which data elements of the current vertex set are visible, as well as the order that they are displayed in.
Display of a property can be changed by toggling the check box next to that property, changing the order can be done by first selecting the property to move and then pressing the green up and down arrows to move the selected property up or down. Saving the current settings can be done clicking the plus button in the Presets panel.
Tab Location(s): Project Tab and Action Tab
Access Command: Right-Click Points and select Edit (Project
Tab) Click Edit button (Action Tab
- Polyline Creation mode)
Prerequisite: Scene with a polyline