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Slope arrows to EarthWorks, possible?

  • 1.  Slope arrows to EarthWorks, possible?

    Posted 07-05-2019 22:21

    Is the a way to get the slope arrows on a surface to show in EarthWorks, export them in any way? Or is there a fast way to place slopearrows on a surface (not manual) wich i can export?



  • 2.  Re: Slope arrows to EarthWorks, possible?

    Posted 07-08-2019 15:15

    Fredrik

    Just playing around, I plotbox to PDF (Adobe PDF) with Slope Arrows turned on and imported PDF, georeferenced and vectorized the data.  Isolated the arrows and they are now lineowork that can be exported.



  • 3.  Re: Slope arrows to EarthWorks, possible?

    Posted 07-08-2019 19:30
    Ha! Love it! (Typical i didnt think about it   ). 
    Thinking outside the box, thats the way to do it. 
    Thanks!  


  • 4.  Re: Slope arrows to EarthWorks, possible?

    Posted 07-09-2019 13:50

    If you select the Surface and export it (when slope arrows are turned on) to DWG the 3D Faces and Arrows are all exported as linework - I assume the same is true for DXF as well. You can then re import them into a project.

     

    I will see if I can get Slope Arrows added to the Explode Surface TML so that you could do this inside a project directly using that command

     

    Alan