General configuration

Plan description

Plan scale

It changes the representation scale of the points and the elements characteristic to the profiles (labels, markers).

Note: When changing the plan scale, if there are profiles in the drawing, the tags and markings of the profiles will be regenerated according to the new scale.

3D Plan

It draws in 3D all the entities created by the program (points, polylines, tags, markings).

Points Identification

Name of the block with attributes used for point drawing and identification

Select the .dwg file that defines the block that will be used for the representation of the points. The selected block must have attached three text attributes that define in order the number, elevation and code of the points.

Tolerance for identical points

It sets the tolerance value that is used in the next situations:
• two points will be considered identical if the distance between them is smaller than the tolerance, in this situation the second point (according to their search order in the .dwg file) will be ignored;
• when a search is made for the point attribute of a vertex of a polyline the search is made for the points that are in front of the vertex at a smaller distance than the tolerance. In the case in which there are found more points it will be taken in consideration the closest point;
• if for two points from the profile the horizontal distance and elevation difference (Z) are smaller than this tolerance than one of the points will be eliminated (without eliminating the distance between the points). The point will be kept if: in this point is made a section, this point represents an object or the point has the number defined;
• The identification of objects in a longitudinal profile by the point code is made at this maximum distance from the profile point.

Automations

Axis points code for longitudinal profile identification

It sets the point codes that define the longitudinal axis. This code is used for the command AutoPL.

List of point codes to leave out on automatic cross profiles search.

It defines the point codes (Ex: illumination post, a sewer home, a gas pipe etc.) that will be left out when creating and drawing the cross profiles using the commands AutoPT or MakePT.

List of point codes used in multiple point join operation on MJoinPts command

It defines the point codes that will be united using the command MJoinPts with the polyline type entities (2D or 3D) and the layers on which they will be created. IN this list there can be introduced codes that define lateral axis lines as is: the road margin, gutters, embankments etc.

Draw profile

Explode profile when inserting in drawing

It explodes the blocks that define the profiles in the moment of introducing them in the drawing.

Order selected profiles when drawing

When drawing the profiles the order in which they were selected is ignored, the profiles being ordered like this:
• longitudinal profiles ordered after the profile number;
• the cross connected profiles ordered after the kilometrical position;
• the unconnected cross profile (independent) ordered after the profile number.

Preview window

Preview windows background color

It selects the color of the background for all the preview windows of the profiles.

Default font

The default font used for replacing fonts that do not contain Unicode characters

Select the font to use when drawing a text that containing Unicode characters and has a set font without Unicode characters (ASCII or ANSI). If the selected font does not contain the Unicode characters which you use in the program, then the displayed text may be inappropriate even after replacing the font that does not contain Unicode characters.