zoomer Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 Why don't Contour Tags not use the Unit settings for Dimensions ? They use the standard Unit Settings which I normally set with lots of decimals for drawing and modeling purposes. That makes it really hard to read the Labels, or if I adapt my Units output, I may miss precission issues while modeling. 1 Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 I agree with this, it would be nice to have similar unit settings for contour tags as for dimensions for contour tags only and show the unit. Most of the time contours are rounded at meters or decimeters (e.g. half meter intervals) but having it show millimeters or smaller makes no sense for real world purposes. E.g. contour tags rounded at meters and dimensions in other units with additional decimals. For e.g. 3D printed models I could see some purpose for smaller units (i.e. more decimals) when creating hypothetical terrain models, but that would be about it. Now that you mentioned using lots of decimals.... if you model at micro/nanometer level then you should use micro/nanometer units for your contours. Quote Link to comment
Urbanist Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 1 hour ago, zoomer said: or if I adapt my Units output, I may miss precission issues while modeling. That should not happen, but I really do not know for sure. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 (edited) I meant that is easy to recognize that something went wrong when modeling or snapping that instead of reading a 1,25 m in OIP you may see a 1,2500000000123 m. That is why I use more decimals. I even have leading and trailing zeros on by default. And in case of a Contour Label that gets quit long, bad to read or read to which contour it might belong to. I also wonder why I can set the units and decimals for cut and fill calculations for Areas and Volumes (only). I had expected to do so for heights as well. And I still don't know what will have influence on Labels Text Size in Contour Editing Mode. (Layer Scale ?, any Text Style ?, ....) Text Style for Site Model Class will change 2D Contour Label output at least. Edited October 16, 2017 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
Art V Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Oh yes, those teensy tiny deviations that mess up your workflow because suddenly you have this micro-gap between objects. I still come across that issue with dwg files when things didn't align properly and it can be maddening at times to find that gap and you have to spend a disproportionate amount of time fixing those gaps. Quote Link to comment
G Troyer Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 Zoomer, I would love the ability to set the decimal point on the contour labels without affecting anything else. Also it would be great to be able to draw a polyline across the contour map and have a contour label placed wherever the polyline intersects with a contour line. How hard would that be? I know that other survey programs incorporate that feature. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted November 8, 2017 Author Share Posted November 8, 2017 Don't know how hard but I think that is a great idea. Quote Link to comment
Rossford Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 I typically want my proposed contour labels lined up as G Troyer suggests, and have seen other programs that do that. I also like my existing contours somewhere near the edge of the sheet/viewport and/or just outside edge of grading areas. Ex and Proposed should be different sizes. It does seem like VW could give us landmark users a few more options to treat contour labels as we wish, not just manually move them around and resized them, etc. Quote Link to comment
G Troyer Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 To vote this issue up please go to https://forum.vectorworks.net/index.php?/topic/53606-need-better-control-over-contour-label-placement/ Quote Link to comment
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