The Polyline Editor window can be opened by right-mouse
clicking on a polyline in the Current Project tree and
selecting Edit or by double clicking on a polyline in the
Current Project tree. The Polyline Editor can also be
accessed when creating a new polyline from the Action tab.
Under the Active Polyline panel, highlight a polyline
and click Edit.
Along the top is a toolbar with several icons. The icons and their corresponding functions are as follows:
New Vertex brings up a dialog that allows you to specify the properties of a new vertex to add. | |
Edit Vertex brings up the edit vertex dialog which allows you to change properties of the currently selected vertex. | |
Delete Vertices deletes the currently selected vertex or vertices. | |
Rename Polyline renames the currently selected polyline. | |
Reverse Polyline reverses the direction. | |
Import Polyline brings up the Carlson file selection dialog. | |
Export Polyline brings up the ASCII file export dialog. | |
Transform allows you to define a transformation sequence to apply to the vertices. | |
Zoom Extents zooms to the polyline in
the current scene. |
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Flatten allows you to flatten the polyline. |
Clicking the New Vertex button will bring up the New Vertex dialog.
X, Y, and Z are the x, y, and z coordinates
values for the new vertex to be added.
Type can be either Basic, Target Point
Reference or Coordinate Point Reference.
The Reference Panel is activated when the vertex type is set
to Target or Coordinate Point Reference.
When using Target Point Reference, select the desired scan
position from the drop-down menu and then select the correct target
point from those available in the Name drop-down menu.
When using Coordinate Point Reference, select the desired
coordinate point from thse available in the Name drop-down
menu.
Clicking the Import button will bring up the Import
Polyline file selection window. The currently supported file
types for polyline import are TXT, PLN and
CL.
Navigate to the correct polyline file and click
Open.
Clicking the Export button will open the Export
Polyline Vertices dialog, which allows users to export the
polyline to several different file formats.
In the Columns panel, click on the check boxes to include or
exclude the data elements. To change the order of the data elements
in the file, click on the element and then click the up or down
arrows to adjust its position
The File panel determines which file format to
export to and also allows you to specify an extension other than
the default for a given file format.
The Text panel contains options when exporting to
the different text file types,ANSI Text or Unicode
Text. The Delimiter Type determines the
divider between data elements in the file. The Write header option
specifies whether to write a header line to the file detailing the
data ordering of the file.
Microsoft Excel allows the user to define the name of the
Excel worksheet that the points will be exported to.
Note: only available when exporting as Format Microsoft
Excel XML allows users to define the Root and
Collectionvalues and choose to Format data
Users can select a preset export format by selecting it from the
Presets drop-down menu. To define a new preset, include or
exclude the desired data elements in the Columns panel,
organise the elements into the desired order and then click the
Green Plus button next to the Presets drop-down. The
new preset will be added to the drop-down menu for future
use.
To delete a preset, select it from the Presets drop-down
menu and then click the Green Dash button next to the
Presets drop-down menu.
The Settings button will bring up the Polyline Editor Settings window, which allows the user to configure which data elements of the current vertex set are visible, as well as the order that they are displayed in.
To turn off a data element so it will not be displayed, click in
the check box next to that element in the Columns
panel.
To change the order that data elements are displayed, select the
element to move and then click the green up and down arrows to
adjust the elements position.
Users can select a preset export format by selecting it from the
Presets drop-down menu. To define a new preset, include or
exclude the desired data elements in the Columns panel,
organize the elements into the desired order and then click the
Green Plus button next to the Presets drop-down. The
new preset will be added to the drop-down menu for future
use.
To delete a preset, select it from the Presets drop-down
menu and then click the Green Dash next to the
Presets drop-down menu.
Tab Location(s): Project Tab and Action Tab
Access Command: Right-Click Points and select Edit (Project
Tab) Click Edit button (Action Tab - Polyline Creation mode)
Prerequisite: Scene with a polyline
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