Field to Finish Inspector

This command reviews entities in the drawing created by Field To Finish. Point descriptions can be edited and the drawing is updated for both the point symbols and linework, using the Field To Finish coding.

Field to Finish Inspector docks a control panel dialog at the bottom of the screen which leaves the drawing view at the top.

Code: Lists the field codes that were found in the drawing. Clicking on a code causes the Instance list to show all of the linework and points that use the selected code.

Instance: Lists the linework and points of the currently selected code.

Point: Lists the points that make up the currently selected linework or point in the Instance list.

Go to Point#: Type in the point # to see in the drawing and then press this button to bring the point # into view. If the point # is not in the drawing, then a message will be printed at the top of the dialog box. If the Zoom toggle is on, then the point # will be brought to the center of the screen even if it was already visible on the screen. Likewise, if Isolate or Highlight are on, then those options will be applied, too.

Zoom: Check this checkbox to make the Field to Finish Inspector automatically zoom and pan the drawing so that the selected items in the above lists are viewable. Zoom is used on the Code and Instance lists. Pan is used for all three lists.

Isolate: Check this checkbox to make the Field to Finish Inspector only display the selected items in the above lists.

Highlight: Check this checkbox to make the Field to Finish Inspector highlight the selected items in the above lists.

Restore View On Exit: Check this checkbox to make the Field to Finish Inspector restore the zoom and pan values when you exit.

Desc: This edit box will display the description field from the coordinate file used on the given point(s). If the points do not all have the same description in the coordinate file, *varies* is displayed instead. If you type in a new description and then click on Apply, the new description will be applied to the coordinate file and Field-to-Finish will be used to process the coordinate file and update the drawing, including linework. Press the Code button to place an existing field code into this Desc edit box.

Code: Press this button to select a field code from the current field code definition (FLD) file. The following dialog box is an example of what you will see. The Categories on the left are the categories that are defined in the current field code definition file. The list on the right is all of the field codes in the selected category. Select (all categories) to see all of the codes in all of the categories. The selected field code will be placed in the Desc edit box.

Apply: Press this button to apply the modified description that is in the Desc edit box to the currently selected points. The below dialog box will come up that lists exactly what will be changed. Optionally, the raw file that was used to create the coordinate file will be updated as well. Press OK to continue. The description will be updated in the coordinate file and then Field-to-Finish will be used to process that coordinate file and finally the drawing will be updated to reflect the changes.
Code: This button generates a user-defined report with fields for the point number, coordinate, feature name and code. This report uses the Report Formatter to select which fields to include.

SAMPLE REPORT

Point#  Code  Full Name          Feature   Northing  Easting   Elevation  Description  

1       CM    CONCRETE MONUMENT  POINT     4922.730  5570.695  502.510    CM/(4" DIAM) 

2       CM    CONCRETE MONUMENT  POINT     4739.612  5499.121  506.050    CM           

5       SHED  SHED               POLYLINE  4794.880  5495.289  505.110    SHED         

6       SHED  SHED               POLYLINE  4771.855  5486.661  505.530    SHED         

7       SHED  SHED               POLYLINE  4782.648  5457.861  505.820    SHED         

11      18D   18" TREE           POINT     4889.990  5551.491  503.010    18D/OAK      

Pulldown Menu Location: Survey
Keyboard Command:
f2f_inspect
Prerequisite:
Entities created by Field-to-Finish