This weekend I was playing around with a data set. Trying some new things. Had a site that had some elevation change and grabbed or picked a few points around the site and drew a linestring pretending all the points I chose were property corners. ?ÿI used the smart text to label the lines bearing and distances like I would if i were doing it for a plat. I had already used the points report thing so i could see the cf . ?ÿAll my data was still grid. So i was trying to use smart text with a formula to change the displayed distance to a ground distance. But as i was looking i saw TBC already had that option as a choice. So i edited the text label style for line and had the bearing distance grid and added a prefix with ground distance so GRND 213.45. For example. Of course it was play time and I was fidgety so I was just playing around. ?ÿBut as I drove into the office this morning and the coffee had just enough in me to start to get the wheels turning I thought well why would I ever need to scale again if all the end goal is to display a distance at ground. So someone who is following me without gps or whatever could retrace my steps. ?ÿAnyone used that function as it has many other uses i have learned. Am I missing anything on why this would be bad.?ÿ
There are a ton of variables to consider with the first being the distances involved and any extreme changes in elevation.
@chris-bouffard yeah i checked several around the site. The grid distances we’re from gps observations. It seemed to compute the ground distance correctly. I checked it by average of the combined factor at each point and the inverse. Now this was my first go at labeling in TBC while staying in grid system but displaying the ground distance. Most of the difference was between 35 and 50ppm so not a huge deal. But it did show the correct distances. I would have to say it would be a very large ppm before someone could scale on paper to see it I reckon. I have used the cogo deed in and kept everything at grid but because i was following an older deed i stated the distances as ground and it worked as well so my end coordinates were at grid. Just seems if i am doing simple drafting like that why even leave TBC at all. I just about have our title blocks from civil 3d looking exactly the same and functioning the same. Well i use the smart text to lut in some of the info automatically which i enter in project settings when i create a tbc project. So i don’t have to re enter it in title block. I have a few kinks to work on still like plotting and such in black and white vs my on screen colors. And getting a few more of my line thickness to match. I am trying to make it where going from one platform to the other is as little re work if none at all. I still have a lot to learn and even more on civil3d side. And just getting tge basic drafting skills down. It has been way to long. I need to go take a class soon. I can create a surface and contour it in half the time in TBC and take same data set into civil loints file and it takes me way too long. But i am slowly learning. Editing the surface is different in civil vs tbc. Contours i am getting them the same. Lots to learn for sure. Lots of burning the midnight oil trying to figure out how.
