Trimble Business Center

Chris

I am starting to look at the labeling issues you are looking to solve - we can discuss on the phone (I have a note to solve this one for you). 

Hatching

the TBC system uses the same definition for Hatch Patterns as AutoCAD. You can download many free Hatch Patterns from the web - open them in a Text Editor and then copy and paste the contents into the file called Trimble.PAT that is located in the Trimble Business Center Installation folder - this gives you an almost limitless capability for Hatch Patterns. Note that the first line of the Pattern File tells you the units in which it is defined - I guess we install a different one for Metric and Feet users - mine says %in in the first row - yours may say %mm or %m I guess - so this is what defines the units of the distances defined in the hatch patterns. I just downloaded a couple of patterns and copy and pasted them into my library to see how they worked - here are some results

Try http://www.cadhatch.com/home/4588167678  as a potential source for what you are looking for

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Turning Templates and Utility Design - both are of course possible Chris - I don't know what Trimble's plans are around these going forwards.

I have suggested in the past that if there is sufficient interest from other users on these items that we could crowd source the funding to develop these - I don't have enough interest from enough people to do these as TMLs at this point to compensate for the amount of work required as a high priority today. By crowd sourcing I mean if there were 50 people all wanting the Turning Radius tool prepared to pay up front for it to be developed, we can look at doing it based on "pre orders" for the tool to be developed. That one is likely several weeks / months of work for one command that has a relatively low volume of requests to me at least - so hard to see how it could pay for itself unless we can get a lot of people interested.

The utility work - is on the radar

Alan

Chris

I am starting to look at the labeling issues you are looking to solve - we can discuss on the phone (I have a note to solve this one for you). 

Hatching

the TBC system uses the same definition for Hatch Patterns as AutoCAD. You can download many free Hatch Patterns from the web - open them in a Text Editor and then copy and paste the contents into the file called Trimble.PAT that is located in the Trimble Business Center Installation folder - this gives you an almost limitless capability for Hatch Patterns. Note that the first line of the Pattern File tells you the units in which it is defined - I guess we install a different one for Metric and Feet users - mine says %in in the first row - yours may say %mm or %m I guess - so this is what defines the units of the distances defined in the hatch patterns. I just downloaded a couple of patterns and copy and pasted them into my library to see how they worked - here are some results

Try http://www.cadhatch.com/home/4588167678  as a potential source for what you are looking for

Wavy Line

Aggregate

Another Aggregate

Turning Templates and Utility Design - both are of course possible Chris - I don't know what Trimble's plans are around these going forwards.

I have suggested in the past that if there is sufficient interest from other users on these items that we could crowd source the funding to develop these - I don't have enough interest from enough people to do these as TMLs at this point to compensate for the amount of work required as a high priority today. By crowd sourcing I mean if there were 50 people all wanting the Turning Radius tool prepared to pay up front for it to be developed, we can look at doing it based on "pre orders" for the tool to be developed. That one is likely several weeks / months of work for one command that has a relatively low volume of requests to me at least - so hard to see how it could pay for itself unless we can get a lot of people interested.

The utility work - is on the radar

Alan

Chris

I am starting to look at the labeling issues you are looking to solve - we can discuss on the phone (I have a note to solve this one for you). 

Hatching

the TBC system uses the same definition for Hatch Patterns as AutoCAD. You can download many free Hatch Patterns from the web - open them in a Text Editor and then copy and paste the contents into the file called Trimble.PAT that is located in the Trimble Business Center Installation folder - this gives you an almost limitless capability for Hatch Patterns. Note that the first line of the Pattern File tells you the units in which it is defined - I guess we install a different one for Metric and Feet users - mine says %in in the first row - yours may say %mm or %m I guess - so this is what defines the units of the distances defined in the hatch patterns. I just downloaded a couple of patterns and copy and pasted them into my library to see how they worked - here are some results

Try http://www.cadhatch.com/home/4588167678  as a potential source for what you are looking for

Wavy Line

Aggregate

Another Aggregate

Turning Templates and Utility Design - both are of course possible Chris - I don't know what Trimble's plans are around these going forwards.

I have suggested in the past that if there is sufficient interest from other users on these items that we could crowd source the funding to develop these - I don't have enough interest from enough people to do these as TMLs at this point to compensate for the amount of work required as a high priority today. By crowd sourcing I mean if there were 50 people all wanting the Turning Radius tool prepared to pay up front for it to be developed, we can look at doing it based on "pre orders" for the tool to be developed. That one is likely several weeks / months of work for one command that has a relatively low volume of requests to me at least - so hard to see how it could pay for itself unless we can get a lot of people interested.

The utility work - is on the radar

Alan