In Drawing View, you can delineate similar objects to help you locate and identify them in the drawing. Delineated objects are redrawn with a highlight color, much as if you highlighted a paper copy of the drawing. Objects are typically delineated in colors like light yellow, light blue or light gray.
Drawing View lets you delineate the following:
All survey space objects in the drawing are highlighted in yellow. This option is mutually exclusive with delineating paper space objects and topo points.
Use this option to determine which if any objects you expect to be in survey space are currently in paper space. You can easily convert by right clicking and choosing Toggle Space.
All paper space objects in the drawing are highlighted in yellow. This option is mutually exclusive with delineating survey space objects and topo points.
Use this option to determine which if any objects you expect to be in paper space are currently in survey space. You can easily convert by right clicking and choosing Toggle Space.
Use this option to visually identify the topo points included in a contour surface. You can right click any point and choose Topo On or Topo Off on include or exclude a point from the contour.
When you manually edit text like line and lot labels, you break the automatic association between the label and the survey objects that created it. TPC does this in order to retain your edits. That's the good news. The bad news is that you are also now responsible for the content of that text label. TPC is no longer free to update it automatically. If you edit the survey data, the label may not reflect the change.
By delineating modified survey text objects, you can easily see which labels you are responsible for. Turn on tooltips and position the cursor over the label. The tooltip will display the inversed data or lot label generated from the survey data. Compare it with the modified text in the label and you will know if you need to manually update the label.
When you tell TPC to display hidden objects, TPC draws the objects and highlights them with a light gray color. To un-hide any hidden object, right click it and choose Show.
You can highlight all the objects drawn by a particular traverse to help you identify the traverse in a drawing.
To delineate a traverse
To turn off traverse delineation, repeat the steps you used to delineate it (delineation is toggled on or off each time you select it) or delineate another traverse.
If you print directly from the Drawing View, delineations are printed along with the drawing. Be sure to turn them off prior to printing if you don't want them on the printout.
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