Story Stake from Surface Entities

This command creates points with cut/fill information stored in the note fields for the points. Beginning at a point and facing a specified direction, the cut/fill information describes a design surface that is defined by contours and 3D polylines in the drawing. The program prompts you to pick the starting point followed by a direction point. Then the intersections for all the contours and 3D polylines between these two points are calculated and the resulting horizontal distances and slopes are shown in a dialog. In this dialog, you can edit, add or remove these slopes descriptions. The Point Description can also be specified. When OK is clicked, a point in the coordinate file is created at the starting point with this information stored in the note file. An offset point is also created at the specified offset distance back from the starting point. At the end of Story Stake from Surface Entities, a report of all the created points and the corresponding cut/fill data is shown if the Create Report option was set. Story Stake from Surface Entities does not draw the points in the drawing. These points can be drawn using the Draw-Locate Points command.

Prompts

Pick starting point: pick the first point
Pick direction point: pick the second point to determine the direction
Pick next starting point (Enter to end): Enter if done

Pulldown Menu Location: 3D Data >> Story Stake
Keyboard Command: prepare_story
Prerequisite: Screen entities such as 3D polylines and contours