Trimble Business Center

Hi TBC world!

New to TBC here and self-learning with version 5.10...no I can't get it updated :( apologies if I am asking something that has been ironed out in later releases or has been covered in another thread, but no amount of searching is coming up with any answers I'm looking for.

So, I am surveying linestring features and trying to label the points on the string with their elevation. I've created a point label with a symbol, I've assigned the elevation to one step below and checked the align to string segment. So in my head, whatever direction the feature is surveyed in, the labels at points should come below the string. If the string reads right to left as you look at the screen, these labels should then appear upside-down above the string as you view it, as opposed to below the string if the direction is left to right...Make sense? So why does everything orientate to the view?

Think of it in terms of surveying parallel strings. I survey one string in one direction and the other in the opposite. With the same label applied they should not appear on top of each other...but they do. Rotating the labels is too time consuming when I have a lot of linestrings. There must be a setting somewhere I can't see that doesn't orientate the label above or below based on view perspective.

Screen shot for clarity. All string labels are set to 1 below, but none appear above the line as viewed from the screen perspective even though string directions are right to left in some cases.

Help...please!

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Darren Milner
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You can change the direction of the linestring so they are all following the same direction.  You will need to do edit linestring and then choose one option in the edit linestring.  It will be the third option from the left.  One the linestring itself, the beginning will be shown with a circle-ball whichever you want to call it.  Not sure if this is something that will aid in what you are after.  

Hi Francisco

I've tried reverse string through edit before to no avail. It appears to change the direction of the string but I'm not sure how as the point numbers don't switch around, they stay as they were. Nor do my labels. 

yes the dynamic labelling of elevations flips from one side to the other but not my point label that are generated with my feature code processing.

next thing to do.  export the linework and then import back into TBC.  those lines will not be dependent of those points.  try that for the label direction.

I have just checked with some old topo data, and reversing does not "flip" the text. I recall i just selected multiply labels along the string and then set to 1 above/below.

Might be worth requesting an enhancement request via support?

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Alan Cliff
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