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by Alexander Cook
Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:19 am
Forum: General
Topic: Create ID for polygons
Replies: 3
Views: 3968

Re: Create ID for polygons

Your best bet is to use the polygon's name as the ID. Then the Exact Volume > Tin to Tin will specify the polygons volume nicely. Although you will need to play with the format to get it in a presentable state. Many of us who do road design and quantity analysis have our own macros that create the p...
by Alexander Cook
Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:40 am
Forum: General
Topic: Export Super tins
Replies: 10
Views: 21739

Re: Export Super tins

This problem has been around for a long time. In terms of a process to complete it with a macro, you would need to: - Get the list of the tins in order - Get the strings for the first tin - Get the boundary of the second tin, offset it a small distance (ie 1mm) in and out. - Drape the out boundary t...
by Alexander Cook
Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:37 am
Forum: General
Topic: Reading a CSV file Macro
Replies: 6
Views: 8361

Re: Reading a CSV file Macro

Elliot,

Attached is the csv from the first example. The second was just generic code that can apply to any csv of PtId,X,Y,Z
by Alexander Cook
Thu Jun 16, 2022 10:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: Reading a CSV file Macro
Replies: 6
Views: 8361

Re: Reading a CSV file Macro

Your next step is to use the From_Text (Page 90 of the Macro manual, ID 2105) to turn your line of text into a dynamic array of text based on your delimiter. You can then use those different bits of text to do whatever you want. If you want to create elements based on coordinates you will need to pa...
by Alexander Cook
Sat Jun 06, 2020 2:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 12d Mapfile to Trimble fxl Codelist
Replies: 3
Views: 3947

Re: 12d Mapfile to Trimble fxl Codelist

I use excel to quickly generate xml based files. You can copy you 12d map file to an excel grid and use a string mapiluation formula to format a line as either a <FeatureLineDefinition> or <FeaturePointDefinition> in the fxl. Let say you had the following as an excerpt of your mapfile in excel Examp...
by Alexander Cook
Sun Mar 18, 2018 10:32 am
Forum: General
Topic: Importing LAS to 12d - No Files Read
Replies: 6
Views: 12545

Hey Ashley, Not sure if you sorted this by now, but when downloading from Geoscience, the point cloud format is .laz which is a compressed format. You need to convert it to las to enable it to be read into 12d. There are download tools available to do this for free, such as laszip (https://www.laszi...