Change cross section properties

Change cross section properties 

ESurvey CADD allows you to change almost all the properties of cross sections

1. Drawing Scale
2. Area Calculation
3. Datum Precision
4. Layer Properties – Caption, Project line, Line type, Value Precision, Height of Band, Order of Layer
5. Display Properties – Header, Footer, Graph, Scale, Area Calculation Table
6. Lable Properties – Font, Contour, Text height
7. Datum
8. Section Names
9. Others

Drawing Scale

When a create a new project in E Survey CAD, by default Horizontal Scale and Vertical Scale for Cross Sections with be 100. Where as for Longitudinal Setion it will be 1000 and 100. Depending on project requirement you can change scale factor. Select ‘Settings’ icon from tool bar and select ‘Basic’ item from Settings tree view and in ‘Basic’ tab you can change drawing Scale.

Area Calculation

By default Layer 1 and Layer 2 are area calculation Layers. You can change area calculation layers in Basic Settings. Trapezoidal method of area calculation is set by default, if required you can set Nett Area calculation Method. For Volume Calculation, trapezoidal method is the default and if required Simpsons 1/3^rd Method can be set.

Datum Precision

Datum will be automatically derived using cross sectional data by the program, it will round off to nearest 0.2 M from the minimum value, similarly program will round off the datum to nearest 1 M value of the minimum value in longitudinal section data. You can change default datum rounding off values from 0.2 and 1 to preferred value once again in basic settings tab.

Layer Properties

You can individually change Cross Section and Longitudinal Section Layer Properties. You can change the Layer Name – Program will give the Layer name as Layer 1, Layer 2 – You can rename it to Ground Levels, Formation Levels Etc. If you want Project line from the cross section line, you can set it. You can set the line type for each cross section layer. You can change the Cross section line color, Height of the Band and Precision of value to be displayed in the Band.

You can also change the order of layer bands.

Display Properties

You can enable graph with the specified scale. You can display Footer with prefix and suffix to change the number. You can set Display Header instead of footer for showing the chainage number. You can control how the chainage number has to display when the chianage value is more than 1000. You can print labels indicating the horizontal Scale and vertical scale in header or footer.

Display properties for Cross section and Longitudinal Section are different.

Lable Properties

You can set font, height, width and color of each of the cross section elements in Lable tab.

Datum

The software will automatically calculate the datum depending on the datum precision setting. Further, you are allowed to specify a datum for each cross section and lock it. Once you lock datum value, the software will not automatically calculate the datum.

Section Names

By default chainage number will be the section name. However, ESurvey CADD further allows you to change the section name. You can give a custom name for each cross section.

Others

In addition to all these settings, you can further control some rarely used cross section properties such as row header width, rounding off values when importing the data, drawing background color Etc.