CARLSON 2008 STANDALONE

[stephen-ward]

Look at the difference between hard and soft breaklines. I don’t have it in front of me, but I remember that the TIN will cross a soft breakline but not a hard breakline.

[jimmy-cleveland]

Are your breaklines 3d polylines? That is how I create my breaklines, and I generally have pretty good results. I am currently running Carlson Survey 2008 Standalone.

I will be upgrading to Carlson Survey 2016 in a few days. The 2008 version has been a workhorse for me.

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do they have to be 3d polylines?

[paul-in-pa]

Yes and they should be on the “Breakline” layer for simplicity.

The contouring program only looks at 3D entities.

Paul in PA

[jimmy-cleveland]

I have always used the 3D polylines, and never had any issues. I also make them a unique color on a separate layer to help make them stand out in the drawing.

[vern]

[email protected], post: 349415, member: 296 wrote: the program interpolates as if the break lines are there.

I’m confused, if the program is using the breaklines for interpolation what is the problem exactly? Or was that a mis-spoken statement?

[stephen-ward]

vern, post: 349515, member: 3436 wrote: I’m confused, if the program is using the breaklines for interpolation what is the problem exactly? Or was that a mis-spoken statement?

I bet he meant to say “as if the break lines aren’t there”

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yes that is correct Stephen