Pad Polyline By Interior Text

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

In the Pad Polyline Options dialog box, you can choose whether to have the new geometry created on a new layer, and if so, specify the name for the layer.  You also specify whether to trim any elevated polylines crossing through the new elevated pad.  You also specify whether to horizontally offset the new polyline from the original geometry, and if so, whether to offset to the inside, outside, or both, and by how much. 

The Snap Tolerance field joins linework which falls within the range you set to create a pad.

Elevation to add to text values adds to the values from the elevation labels. Often, 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 completing the dialog box, click OK.  You are prompted to select the layers you want to use for the text representing pad elevations and for the boundaries of the pads. You do this to tell the routine which layers to process once you are prompted to select objects to convert. Also, sometimes pads are drawn with linework from two different layers and Carlson Civil allows you to pick all the linework layers.  If you chose to Trim Elevated Polylines Inside Pad, you are also prompted to identify by selection the layer(s) with the elevated polylines that you want trimmed.  Finally, select all the pads, labels, and existing elevated polylines, press Enter, and the new polylines with elevations will be created.

Prompts

Select layer sample of elevation text: pick a label text
Selected text layer ----TX07
Select layer sample of boundary linework: pick a pad polyline
Selected linework layer PAD
Select another layer sample of boundary linework (Enter to continue):
Select text and linework to process.
Select objects: select pad and text entities
Analyzing entire selection...
Set elevation for 1 polylines.

Pulldown Menu Location: 3D Data
Keyboard Command: pad_by_text
Prerequisite: Pad polylines and elevations