Hello,
All my boring logs and fences are in english units (feet).
I want to prepare another template in Imperial units (meters). In case I want to create boring logs and fences in meters units, do I need to have create another library, project database and template files?, or can i use the same files for both systems?
Please advise.
First you need to decide if you want to produce SI unit logs from imperial unit data or SI logs from SI data. For the former I just copied my standard log template in the same library and modified all labels and depth scale expressions to convert the English data and display the resulting SI unit. Ie. The log still plots in feet but is labeled with properly converted units and scales.
Drawbacks of this approach are:
1. There are many more things to convert than you would expect. Hammer weights, hammer falls, partial penetrations, penetrometer readings, coordinates, elevations, station, offset, etc. all may need to be converted.
2. Depths embedded in descriptions such as "bottom 2 feet of unit is hard" are difficult to automatically detect and correct, hand editing of the data may be required.
3. Sometimes rounding of the converted data does not add up correctly. For example, a 1.5 foot sample converts to .46 meters, 2 samples would then add to .92 meters, but 3 feet converts to .91 meters.
4. If you want the log to plot in an actual SI scale (so that if you put a centimeter scale down on the printed paper it would line up with the printed units for an even number like 1:100) you will have to do additional work. This is probably more important with fences than logs.
Again many ways to do it, just need to decide what you gave as input and what you want as output and determine the approach that works best for you.
Please refer to the gINT Help file, page name "Mixing English (Imperial) and Metric Units (how-to guide)"
Also look at the Canadian example files: https://communities.bentley.com/products/geotechnical1/w/wiki/5303/gint-standard-reports
Really anything is possible. You can have one library.
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