Smart Drawing Tools

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• Smart Drawing Tools allow to draw and create lines and objects during the survey.

Smart drawing tools

• To open the Smart Drawing Tools click the lower button of the left side panel in points survey window.

  

• This opens the Smart Drawing tools page.

  

  • Point: save single points.

  • Line: creates lines between points.

  • Arc: creates arcs between points.

  • Spline: creates a spline from measured points automatically.

  • Circle 3P: creates a circle by measuring of three points.

  • Circle C+R: creates a circle by measuring the center and one point on the circle.

  • Square: creates a square by measuring two opposite angles.

  • Square Center: creates a square by measuring the centre point and the middle point of a side.

  • Rectangle base: creates a rectangle by measuring two points of the base and any point on the opposite side from the base.

  • Rectangle center: creates a rectangle by measuring the center, one middle point of a side and any point on opposite side.

  • Control point: stores a point of type Control point. This allows to customize the occupation time.

  • Surface: if this option is selected, the software will ask to enter the name of the new surface or select an existing surface. All points measured while this option is enabled, creates vertexes for the selected surface.

• When selecting a tool from the toolbar a button visualizes the request related to the point to measure. Examples:

  

• When a survey code is selected, the tool corresponding to the type of drawing set in the code is selected automatically.

Smart drawing bar

• When a Smart drawing tool is selected, the software visualizes a bar in the survey page with a set of actions to manage the current drawing.

• The available actions depend on the selected tool.

  

  • Close: closes the current polyline.

  • Arc/Line: switches between arc and line.

  • Break: breaks a line and restart.

  • Offset: manages offset drawings. With this mode it is possible to specify one or more offsets to be applied to the current drawing. It is possible to define up to four different horizontal and vertical offsets, resulting in the automatic generation of parallel drawings.

    

  • Undo: removes the last measured points.

  • Last point: uses the last measured point.