
These will be high level overviews of the enhancements we use for basic road elements.

In upcoming blog posts, I will go over the different approaches available for both Trimble Business Center and Carlson. My advice is to think differently about the approach.

It takes years of experience to fully understand the process. A positive value places the elements above the surface and a negative value below the surface.There is nothing more difficult, or rewarding, than seeing a highway job perform well from dirt work to paving. If you want to place elements above or below the surface, enter a Dz value. “Points On Surface on=1/dz=2.0” will turn on the points on surface lock with an elevation adjustment of 2 units. “Points On Surface on=1/dz=0.0” will turn on the points on surface lock with no elevation adjustment.

“Points On Surface on=0” will turn off the points on surface lock Points on Surface key-in command so users can control the lock with function keys. Model write text landxml12 d:\myproject\output\#bnumber.xmlįormat of the Triangle Text File to be written:įull path and filename of text file to be writtenĬorresponding menu command: TerraModeler -> Surfaces Dialog -> File -> Export -> Triangle Text File Points on Surface Model Open Surface filename key-in command opens the surface called filename found in the same folder as the design file.Ĭorresponding menu command: TerraModeler -> Surfaces Dialog -> File -> Open Surface Model Write Text Open Main Toolbox key-in command opens the TerraModeler Main Toolbox in CONNECT if it has been closed.Ĭorresponding menu command: In v8/v8i only: Applications -> TerraScan -> Main tool box Model Open Surface filename Model Close Surfaces key-in command to close all TerraModeler surfaces.Ĭorresponding menu command: TerraModeler -> Surfaces Dialog -> File -> Close All Model Open Main Toolbox This lists key-in commands and their optional parameters that you may consider assigning to function keys Model Close Surfaces
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Especially tools with optional parameters in their key-in commands are well suited for speeding up manual work with function keys. This can speed up some manual tasks significantly as you can call tools by pressing a key instead of mouse clicks. Key-in commands are handy because you can assign them to function keys in MicroStation. This starts the corresponding tool or performs another action called by the command. Press in order to execute a key-in command.
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The software automatically completes words of the command, so you just type the first letter(s) and then, confirm the suggested word with. If you know approximately, how a command looks like, you may start typing the command in the Key-in line. This adds the word to the command line and displays any matching third words in the next list field. This adds the word to the command line and displays matching second words in the second-left list field. Select the first word of a command in the left list. There are four list fields that show available commands.

If you select TMODEL in the list at the lower right corner of the Browse Key-in dialog, the selection of commands is limited to TerraModeler commands only. To bring up the key-in dialog press enter in an active MicroStation view window. The Browse Key-in option of the Key-in line can be used to find out the syntax of a key-in command. Many tools in TerraModeler can be started by entering a key-in command in the MicroStation Key-in line.
