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Terramodeler User Guide
Terramodeler User Guide
Terrasolid Ltd
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Trademarks
MicroStation, MDL and MicroStation stylized "M" are registered trademarks, and MicroStation PowerDraft is a trademark of Bentley Systems, Incorporated. TerraBore, TerraLink, TerraMatch, TerraModeler, TerraPark, TerraPhoto, TerraPipe, TerraScan, TerraStreet and TerraSurvey are trademarks of Terrasolid Limited. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Acrobat Reader is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Intergraph Raster File Formats - Copyright - 1994 Intergraph Corporation. Used with permission.
Copyright
1995-2003 Arttu Soininen, Terrasolid Limited. All rights reserved.
Acknowledgements
The picture on the cover was created from a design file provided as a courtesy of Soil and Water Ltd, Itlahdenkatu 2, 00210 Helsinki, Finland. The design file was created from an aerial photograph using TerraSurvey and TerraModeler.
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Insert Random Elements..................................................................... 46 Insert Breakline Elements................................................................... 47 7 Placing Elements Using a Surface Model................................................... 48 Draw tool box ............................................................................................... 48 View Elevation ................................................................................... 49 Compare Elevations............................................................................ 50 View Slope ......................................................................................... 50 Measure Slope .................................................................................... 51 Place Sloped Line ............................................................................... 51 Set Linear Elevation ........................................................................... 52 Copy Linear Element.......................................................................... 52 Alignment Offset ................................................................................ 54 Drop Element On Surface................................................................... 55 Calculate Slope ................................................................................... 56 Fill Area With Cells............................................................................ 57 8 Editing Surface Models................................................................................ 59 Edit Point tool box ........................................................................................ 59 Construct Breakline ............................................................................ 60 Insert Point Along Breakline .............................................................. 61 Insert Point.......................................................................................... 62 Move Point ......................................................................................... 63 Remove Point ..................................................................................... 64 Exclude Triangle................................................................................. 64 Edit Area tool box ......................................................................................... 65 Flatten Area ........................................................................................ 66 Move Area .......................................................................................... 67 Drop Area ........................................................................................... 68 Exclude Area ...................................................................................... 69 Insert Hole Element ............................................................................ 70 Remove Area ...................................................................................... 71 9 Drawing Profiles ........................................................................................... 72 Profiles tool box ............................................................................................ 72 Draw Section View............................................................................. 73 Draw Profile ....................................................................................... 74 Draw Alignment Sections................................................................... 76 Update Profile..................................................................................... 78 Project Into Profile.............................................................................. 79 Project From Profile ........................................................................... 80 Label Profile Elevations ..................................................................... 81 Output Profile Elevations ................................................................... 82 Output Section Elevations .................................................................. 84 10 Generating Displays ................................................................................... 86 Display Surface tool box............................................................................... 86 Display Contours ................................................................................ 88 Display Triangles................................................................................ 92 Display Grid ....................................................................................... 94 Display Elevation Texts...................................................................... 95 Display Slopes .................................................................................... 96 Update Displays.................................................................................. 99 Erase Display ...................................................................................... 99
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Display Boundary ............................................................................. 100 Display Regions tool box............................................................................ 101 Display Themes ................................................................................ 102 Display Drainage .............................................................................. 103 Display Region Triangles ................................................................. 105 Display Raster Triangles .................................................................. 106 11 Computing Quantities.............................................................................. 108 Quantity tool box ........................................................................................ 108 Compute Quantity............................................................................. 109 Compute Prismoidal Quantity .......................................................... 110 Compute Alignment Quantity .......................................................... 111 Define Section Templates................................................................. 112 Compute Section Quantity................................................................ 113 Compute Tunnel Volume ................................................................. 114 Draw Surface Intersection ................................................................ 115 Compute Area................................................................................... 116 12 Using Domains .......................................................................................... 117 Domains tool box ........................................................................................ 117 Define Domains ................................................................................ 118 Domain View.................................................................................... 119 Set Area Domain .............................................................................. 120 Set Domain Between Lines .............................................................. 121 Set Triangle Domain......................................................................... 122 Display Domain Triangles................................................................ 123 13 Placing Single Display Elements ............................................................. 124 Display Single tool box............................................................................... 124 Place Contour ................................................................................... 125 Place Elevation Text ......................................................................... 126 Place Slope Arrow ............................................................................ 127 14 Managing Surfaces ................................................................................... 128 Opening a surface file....................................................................... 128 Saving surfaces ................................................................................. 128 Opening a reference surface ............................................................. 129 Modifying surface settings ............................................................... 129 Modifying profile settings ................................................................ 129 Excluding outer boundaries .............................................................. 130 Modifying surface elevations ........................................................... 130 Thinning a surface ............................................................................ 131 Compressing a surface...................................................................... 131 Deleting a surface ............................................................................. 132 Viewing surface statistics ................................................................. 132 Copying surfaces .............................................................................. 132 Merging surfaces .............................................................................. 133 Subtracting surfaces.......................................................................... 133 Creating a statistical grid model ....................................................... 134 15 Importing and Exporting Data ............................................................... 135 Importing triangles ........................................................................... 135 Importing XYZ text file points ......................................................... 135 Exporting text files ........................................................................... 136
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Exporting graphical elements ........................................................... 136 Importing lattice files........................................................................ 137 Exporting raster images .................................................................... 137 16 Lattice Database ....................................................................................... 138 Drawing lattice database boundaries ................................................ 138 Viewing lattice database elevation ................................................... 138 Triangulating lattice database points ................................................ 139 17 Flood Mapping ......................................................................................... 140 Flood Mapping tool box.............................................................................. 140 Import River Sections ....................................................................... 141 Edit River Sections ........................................................................... 143 Export River Sections ....................................................................... 143 Input Water Elevations ..................................................................... 144 Draw River Section Boundaries ....................................................... 144 Display Flood ................................................................................... 145 18 Lifting 2D Contours ................................................................................. 146 2D Contours tool box.................................................................................. 146 Lift 2D Contours............................................................................... 147 Set Contour Elevation....................................................................... 148 Check Linear Elevations................................................................... 149 19 Public Functions ....................................................................................... 150 20 Installation Directories ............................................................................ 163 21 Configuration Variables .......................................................................... 164
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Document conventions
The following conventions and symbols appear in this guide: Keyboard keys angle brackets - for example, <Return>. Alternate procedures are separated by "OR". Alternate steps in a procedure are separated by "or". "Key in" means to type a character string and then press <Return> (or <Tab> in dialog boxes). The following icons are used to specify special information: Icon: Appears next to: Notes Hints and shortcuts Procedures