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Display slope of a linestring.....

  • 1.  Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 08-31-2018 07:20

    Any ideas for best way to display a slope of a linestring segment other than Measure?

     

    Maybe add the slope of a segment in the circled areas of the properties and segment table....



  • 2.  Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 08-31-2018 09:17

    Glenn

     

    If you click on Vertical Tab in Edit Linestring and show the table you can see the slopes.

     

     



  • 3.  Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 08-31-2018 10:20

    Cool deal! Thanks Tim!

    I had not gotten curious enough to click on the vertical tab because there were no vertical nodes on the linestring being inspected.....



  • 4.  Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 08-31-2018 14:20

    I like the Vertical tab, I did not know that one. One way I have checked is using Explore object. 

     

     



  • 5.  RE: Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 10-25-2021 00:28
    Tim, 

    How do you change your option in the browse vertical information? I only have three options. Segment type, point type, and length.

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  • 6.  RE: Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 10-25-2021 16:31
    At the top of the Edit Linestring command, there is a Horizontal and Vertical tab you can choose between



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  • 7.  Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 08-31-2018 13:24

    You can also do this using Explore Object

     

    Alan



  • 8.  Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 09-07-2018 19:35

    What about using smart text on the objects/lines...

     

    SMART TEXT CODE LIST (Object Based)

    CAD Polyline and Linestring

    S%          Label segment slope as a percent

    S:            Label segment slope as a slope ratio



  • 9.  Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 09-10-2018 02:53

    Just to back up Glenn, I think it would make sense to add some info to the geometry.

    Like:

    Slope Length

    Segment Length

    Segment Slope

    Segment Slope Length

     

    That way it will match what we get from the properties in SCS900/Siteworks :-)



  • 10.  Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 09-15-2018 10:32

    The profile view could be another useful tool if you had the ability to toggle on elevations and slopes.

     



  • 11.  Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 10-03-2018 19:25

    Yes, this would definitely be nice.  Althought it's not exactly what you're looking for but in case you didn't realize you can use "explore object" within the profile viewer to browse the linestring.  



  • 12.  Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 10-04-2018 03:20

    For a quick slope check, yes the explore object or smart text works better and is more applicable.

     

    I see the profile view option having more value of getting the overall picture of slopes along the profile. More of a design tool. What slope are you going into/out of? Explore object only gives you the instantaneous slope at that point of the line so if you are. Something such as a ditch with varying slopes would be a good case for this. 



  • 13.  Re: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 10-25-2018 22:07

    It would be a great help If we could see in the properties or even better in the edit linestring, when you put in the Z value and push tab to see the slope and the distance of the line, so you can make some changes before saving the value, open the explore object and click on the segment to know its properties, or to go in the tab vertical and figure out wich segment it is to see it's slope go back to the horizontal tab, find the segment and change value.

    Maybe it is my problem because I work on smaller project, where creating a corridor is'nt an option.



  • 14.  RE: Display slope of a linestring.....

    Posted 10-28-2021 07:47
    For some reason Glen's pictures aren't rendering for me - the resources seem to be broken. But I second his interest in having slope information added to the properties panel.

    After building a model (e.g. a pipe model) I like to verify the data by selecting all the objects and stepping through them rapidly in the selection explorer while watching the properties panel. The way we build pipe models, each pipe is represented with a single-segment linestring modeled at the pipe's IE. I'm able to see max and min elevation and glance over at my plan set to verify they're correct. I can catch flat lines because there's only one elevation. If my lines are supposed to be all a specific length, I can watch the length values to verify. I've walked through the list of surface members to identify and isolate linestrings with Surface Sharpness => "Sharp and Texture Boundary" since there doesn't seem to be any better way to find all of these, not even Advanced Select. You get the point, stepping through the data in selection explorer while watching properties offers a way to verify any attribute included in the properties pane.

    I noticed awhile back that slope length was added, and it made me wish that average slope was also displayed. Maybe even total number of nodes in the line.​

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