Pad Polyline By Interior Text

This command allows you to set one or more pad elevations using interior text labels.

After running the command you will be prompted to select the layers you want to use for the pad elevation and for the boundary of the pad. Sometimes pads are drawn with linework from two different layers and Carlson TakeOff allows you to pick all the correct linework.

This dialog box allows you to create a new layer with the correct x,y coordinates and elevations. If the pad shares the same coordinates with other linework with different elevations than this dialog box allows you to offset the new polyline to avoid the problem of shared occupied points with different elevations. You can choose to have an interior offset or an exterior offset and also decide how much to offset the new polyline. Selecting Both will give both the interior pad elevation and the exterior contour elevations. This helps the transition from you pad elevation to the design contouring. The Snap Tolerance field joins linework which falls within the range you set to create a pad. Trim Outside Elevated Polylines will trim out contour elevations that go through your pad that you are not using elevations from within the pad.
Elevation to add to text values adds to the values from the elevation labels. Often times elevations are abbreviated to save time and space. If every elevation in a drawing is in the 500s instead of labeling every elevation 523.5, 543.3, 537.2 sometimes they are listed as simply 23.5, 43.3, 37.2. This command allows you to add a given amount, such as 500, to every label elevation to produce the correct elevation in the drawing.

After running the command you will be prompted to select the layers you want to use for the pad elevation and for the boundary of the pad. Sometimes pads are drawn with linework from two different layers and Carlson TakeOff allows you to pick all the correct linework. In addition, if your text has multiple Prefixes and Suffixes you will be prompted to select the ones you want to use the elevation from. After clicking <OK> select all the pads and their elevation labels that you wish to change, press <Enter>, and the new layer with elevations will be created and placed in the Design target.

Prompts

Select layer sample of elevation text: Pick a label text
Selected text layer ----TX07
Select layer sample of boundary linework:
Selected linework layer PAD
Select another layer sample of boundary linework (Enter to continue):
Select text and linework to process.
Select objects: 1 found
Select objects: 1 found, 2 total
Select objects:
Analyzing entire selection...
Set elevation for 1 polylines.

Keyboard Command: pad_by_text
Prerequisite: Pad polylines and elevations