Cartography Update information
SoundPLAN 6
Revision of July T3. Dezember 2003
Text attributes that can be displayed in the Graphics are shown in the file selection manager. By double clicking on the text attribute or on the little arrow the texts will be generated and included in the plan. The following attributes can be displayed:
· Receiver number and -name
· Road and railway kilometer markings, if the road or railway was defined as reference axis in the Geo-Database.
· Wall height for noise protection walls is displayed at places where the wall height changes.
· Reference kilometer referencing the beginning, end and changes in height of a noise protection wall to the kilometer markings on the road or railway.
· Indoor receiver numbers and names
· Photo point number
The layout of the text attributes is controlled through the object setup under the tab Cartography. The preview picture shows how changes in parameters will affect the display of the attribute text.
When object types are duplicated in order to distinguish between an existing and a planned noise protection wall, the text attributes for these duplicated objects are also duplicates enabling the texts to be included in the planned wall but not in the existing wall. As there are two different text attributes they both need to be loaded with the data in the file selection menu.
The text attributes cannot be moved in the Graphics.
The complete Spreadsheet or parts of it can be included in the Graphics in a Spreadsheet box.
First pull open a spreadsheet box and then click on it to edit the content. Here the “file open” dialogue will open up. With the file filter select the type of file, select from the options “Level File”, “ Measurement File” or “Area Table”.
After this selection an additional dialogue opens up were the top part expects the file name and the click boxes for „Select“ and „Edit“ operations. With the “Edit“ option the program opens the spreadsheet for editing.
The middle part of the box defines if the entire table shall be included in the drawing or only part. To display only part of the table a filter column is available that takes a numerical value and only displays the part of the table fitting the filter. The filter column can either be displayed or suppressed. For a level table the receiver numbers are acting as the filter (to for example only generate the table part representing a specific building), other filters might be the building ID or a user generated integer column.
The filter column can be suppressed in the box even if it was active in the Spreadsheet, likewise a filter column can be temporarily activated even if it is suppressed in the Spreadsheet.
Lines selected with the filter function do not have to be adjacent lines in the Spreadsheet. If a Structure beginning line is preceding a displayed line, it too will show up in the Spreadsheet box of the drawing.
The photo documentation enables you to document the situation with photos takes with a digital camera. The dataflow is complete from the definition of the bitmap file in the Geo Data-Base with location and view direction to the inclusion in the Graphics sheet. As you can use the page layout you can easily create the photo documentation for the annex of you report.
The pictures (*.bmp or *.jpg) you have defined as photo locations in the Geo Data-Base are automatically transferred into the folder “Photo” in you current project. In the settings of the photo define the view direction and angle and under the tab Info write your description of the photo.
Open the photo documentation in the Geo Data-Base with Documentation -> Photo auf.
Customize the layout of the printout. The place holder shows the placement of portrait and landscape pictures within the frame and adjusts with modifying the number of pictures on the page. The actual layout on the page is visible in the preview section.
On top of the photo you can enter the photo number and the title (name) from the photo point definition as well as the file name of the bitmap file. Below the picture the description from the photo definition can be placed. Customize content and layout under Anzeigen/Schriftart.
Define which information with which layout shall be included in the photo documentation and then review the layout with the layout preview.
Under the tab picture area define the spacing of texts and pictures and the size of frames and lines.
Via Seite einrichten define the page layout with the customary headder and footer sections. The line width determines the line width of the outer frame line.