LeeElston Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 When I enter the site model to edit contours, the contour labels appear, even though they are turned off in the Site Model Settings... Because of the location they obliterate the contour line I'm trying to edit so I cant see it... Is there a way of turning the labels off completely, or do I need to see if the software can be upgraded?.. Cheers 1 Quote Link to comment
Rossford Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 I think you can just click on the text header, go to size, and reduce it there. 1 Quote Link to comment
Peter W Flint Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Same category, different issue. I imported a hand-drawn grading plan with the intent to use it as a reference for editing contours, similar to attaching an XREF in Autodesk. But when I enter Edit Proposed Contour mode the raster image disappears. Thought anyone? PWF Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Yes when you're inside an editing mode bitmaps and other images don't get rendered. I'm not sure what would happen if you temporarily pasted the pdf inside the DTM while editing contours. But it might be worth a try. Otherwise your best bet is to either trace over the contours or use the render bitmap command to create line work from the image that can be seen in an edit mode. I caution you to save before you run the command! And isolate the resulting lines to their own layer so you can delete them easily when you're done. Quote Link to comment
Rossford Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Michaelk, Whenever I have tried render bitmap, albeit on pencil drawing grading plans, the lines come in as a lot of spots, not a connected line. Anyone know of any setting that may help that situation. If I have to trace hand drawn contours with a sharp pen before importing them, I'm not saving much time, and I would love to have the render bitmap truly work. Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 @Rossford Yes. Render Bitmap is usually unsatisfying. In my experience it doesn't matter what settings you use, the results are identical. Sometimes it gets something close enough to be helpful as a guide. But, as you said, the lines it generates are often so short that they appear as dots. And there are can be many many thousands of them! :-0 So you will probably want to delete them to speed up the drawing. There must be some app that will generate useful vectors from a non vector image. But the render bitmap command isn't it. 1 Quote Link to comment
Rossford Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 (edited) Would like to know what those are! I actually went on line and there are some free and subscription based on line conversion tools. Looking into it to see if and which might be best for hand drawn lines like a contour plan. Edited April 18, 2019 by Rossford Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Me too! Just bought one and tried it. Not much better. Let me know if you find something. 1 Quote Link to comment
Rossford Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 From what I gathered, most convert profession graphics that are in jpg or other form to better vector graphics. It seems none could do much for a quick pencil line sketch, although some had some settings that might make those better. Tracing one last time with a sharp pen takes longer than tracing with a mouse or stylus pen on a Wacom board. 2 Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/764/app-to-convert-existing-image-files-to-vector-graphics http://www.imagaro.com Have not used any of them, but saw a demo of imagaroZ a long time ago at MacWorld and it looked very impressive. Quote Link to comment
Peter W Flint Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 I've also come to mistrust the efficiency of graphic conversion software. Fortunately, copying and pasting in place inside edit mode has proved sufficient for my needs at the moment. Thanks MichaelK for the suggestion. Long days and pleasant nights. PWF Quote Link to comment
bob cleaver Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) I am not sure this will work for this situation, but yesterday's VW webinar by Danilo Maffei showed a simple use of stakes and working over an aerial image to develop a site model. The contours developed were crude and fast and I assume using a smoothing tool and additional stakes may be a good solution to add detail - I recommend the webinar - it was terrific Edited April 19, 2019 by bob cleaver 3 Quote Link to comment
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