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Export Text with Leaders to Access using DXF

  • 1.  Export Text with Leaders to Access using DXF

    Posted 08-16-2019 04:07

    I have some automated text labels with leaders in TBC. When I export them to a DXF and turn them on in the map screen in Access, only the text shows up -  the leaders are not visible. I can work around this by exploding the blocks in AutoCAD, but is there a way of doing this directly from TBC?

     

    Thanks

    Andy



  • 2.  Re: Export Text with Leaders to Access using DXF

    Posted 08-16-2019 04:17

    If you run the Convert to Linestring command (this is a free TML macro you can get from the TBC Macro forum or from the www.Rockpilesolitions.com website or through use of Rockpiles TML Status command that runs from inside TBC (download this from their website) on the Text Leaders it will convert the Leaders into Linestrings that can then be exported as Lines to DXF for use in Trimble Access. That should do the trick.

     

    Hope this helps

     

    Alan



  • 3.  Re: Export Text with Leaders to Access using DXF

    Posted 08-16-2019 04:38

    Thanks Alan! I wasn't aware of that trick. When I ran the command (it was already installed in TBC by the way) the smart text disappeared (the text labels were using smart text, specifically station callouts on an alignment). I exploded the text before running Convert to Linestring and all is well...Thanks again!