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SS3 - SURFACE CREATED FROM SURVEY DATA -

Andrew Kempe
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project explorer shows surface - What is best practice to work with this surface?
I could deactivate rules allowing editing with "New" Edit Terrain Model commands (I like the attempt at AutoCAD editing).  I don't know what "RULES" are, except it allows me to edit my surface using the improved commands.
I could "Strip" the survey data, making it graphics but lose the editing ability (but this is needed at some point to commit to graphics and give to a client).  Or I guess I could Export to LandXML and then re-import to create a surface using the SS3 commands, then allowing access to these new SS3 editing commands?  I'd like some sort of workflow that makes sense for an existing ground surface from survey data that always needs editing.  Also is SS3 getting away from InRoads .DTM files and going toward LandXML format DTM files?  I'm trying to use the new SS3 methods without using the old Inroads window of commands.

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    In this instance, it is best to edit the survey observations and then go in and lock the rules. Instead of editing the terrain created from the survey, edit the survey.

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  • 0 Offline in reply to Sanders Thomas
    Hi Sanders. As "Roadrunner" said, large surveys always need editing. Like him, I have thousands of points, and breaklines, and need to make edits which are easier to do on the surface than going back to the original data. As with "Roadrunner", I need to add additional data multiple times (sometimes each day). I see now how to turn off these "rules" to allow edits. I see now each days survey creates a new surface. I see there is a "Complex Surface" which allows me to merge (or append) surfaces, but the merged surface ends up on the same level and I can't get rid of the old surfaces or the new one goes away. When new points are imported which are also inside a previous surface (as well as adjacent), what is better to use "Merge" or "Append"? How can I get rid of the old surface pieces, and just have the final surface? How can I control the layer(s) for the triangles, contours, etc.? How can I get contours at a tighter interval than just 1'? Is there a video (specific) that deals with creating survey surfaces, merging surfaces, editing surfaces, controlling layers, controlling contour intervals, etc?
  • 0 Offline in reply to Andrew Kempe
    There is no way possible to 'fix' all data in the 'survey'! Faces will always need flipped. We showed our local DOT how we flip faces in the surface and they literally lept out of the chair. They had no idea you could do that, they just thought you pressed the create surface button and it was done with 100% accuracy. I've been processing topos electronically for over 29 years and have never seen a surface createdwith 100% accuracy at the press of a button.
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  • 0 Offline in reply to Andrew Kempe
    There is no way possible to 'fix' all data in the 'survey'! Faces will always need flipped. We showed our local DOT how we flip faces in the surface and they literally lept out of the chair. They had no idea you could do that, they just thought you pressed the create surface button and it was done with 100% accuracy. I've been processing topos electronically for over 29 years and have never seen a surface createdwith 100% accuracy at the press of a button.
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