Well, after 4 hours yesterday (non billable of course) of exploring the abilities of Carlson surface modeling, and pad templates... a fun tool in it's own right!
A sad note.....
Slope transition along a line, (say 3:1 to 1.5:1 along a tangent, or
around a corner) that we all knew, and loved about Eagle Point site design.
Answer appears to be...."no equivalent command"
Out comes the calculator to draw in those transitions by hand again...
Guess I just got spoiled..... sigh
Maybe someday in a Carlson update, I will get a surprise?
One can only hope...
I was working on something last night and I noticed that there is no command in Cogo to establish the radius point from 3 points on a Circle, I collected the data on Trimble access and noticed they didn't have anything like that in Cogo either. I wound up computing it on my Nomad with TDS. Maybe I missed something in both.
Ralph
>> Slope transition along a line, (say 3:1 to 1.5:1 along a tangent, or
>> around a corner) that we all knew, and loved about Eagle Point site design.
When the Carlson Design Pad Template routine is run with the "Use Different Slopes for Separate Sides" option, the transition around corners from one segment to the next should be handled automatically. I will, however, log a request with programming for the old Eagle Point "Transition Along Object" command.
> I was working on something last night and I noticed that there is no command in Cogo to establish the radius point from 3 points on a Circle, I collected the data on Trimble access and noticed they didn't have anything like that in Cogo either. I wound up computing it on my Nomad with TDS. Maybe I missed something in both.
There are some ways to accomplish this by drawing the arc through the three points (you could use the Draw -- Arc -- "3 Point" routine and then using a CENter snap with Draw-Locate Points but I will pass along this feature request into programming.
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> > I was working on something last night and I noticed that there is no command in Cogo to establish the radius point from 3 points on a Circle, I collected the data on Trimble access and noticed they didn't have anything like that in Cogo either. I wound up computing it on my Nomad with TDS. Maybe I missed something in both.
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> There are some ways to accomplish this by drawing the arc through the three points (you could use the Draw -- Arc -- "3 Point" routine and then using a CENter snap with Draw-Locate Points but I will pass along this feature request into programming.
Thank You Ladd!:good:
Ralph
Thanks Ladd!!!
We do such convoluted matching slopes for so much of our earthworks many times
transitioning a match into existing slopes.
A Transition along a tangent, along an arc, or around a cicular corner would be fantastic addition!