Trimble Business Center

I am creating a new FCL for my company and have noticed that it will start drawing a line without being instructed to do so.  As in the example below, there are only 2 RR (Railroad) shots in the entire file.  It is an accepted line code, so it took it upon itself to draw a line between them.  As a second example, a line was started (on it's own) on point 100 and continued until I used the end (e) to stop it.  But it started another (all by itself) on point 104 with no start code.

BTW, E=End, S=Start and Cl=Close in this library...


I and my crews find this annoying and was hoping someone knew where the setting for this is.

Thanks.

It has to do with the END line command.  The line starts a line with the smallest number with say code EOP.  Once that line is drawn and runs into the EOP code and has a stop line code END.  it will terminate that line at the point with the END and if any other points have the same line code EOP.  It will start a new line automatically as it know the previous line was told to stop which it did.  You don't really need to have a start code unless the point ID number jump out of order.  

you could also just do a START line code and not do a END line code.   The biggest pain is being sure the field crews start and stop the line code when needed.  Which sometimes does not happen.

If I'm understanding correctly, you find it annoying that a new line is drawn using the line codes even when a start code is not used. The way the feature code library works is that a line feature code is always going to draw a line unless told otherwise by using a line control code. If using a line code but not wanting a line to be drawn, add a start or end code to each point for example: Pt 101 TOB E, Pt 102 TOB E... Pt 110 TOB E etc. That will prevent a line being drawn between those points. If this is a code that is used often but you do not want a line to be drawn I would recommend adding a point feature code which results in a point with no linework. Does this answer your question?