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