Line Marking Manager
Command Licensing and Default Menu Location
- The Line Marking Manager command is part of the RPS Tool Shed Toolbox
- The command is located on the Tool Shed macros menu ribbon
- The command is located in the System Management menu group
Command Description
Provides full control over the visibility and settings of line markings (line and segment endpoints, elevation and VPI labels, large deflection indicators etc.) as well as a shortcut CTRL F to toggle line markings on for selected lines without opening the command dialog (blind mode)
Command History
October 2024
First version of the command released.
Video Demonstration
The following video shows how to utilize the Line Marking Manager command
Command Interface Description
The line marking manager command can be operated through the command dialog or operated blind through simple graphical selection of the objects that you wish to add line markings to and pressing CTRL F (set up in default RPS Shortcuts. If you are using the Trimble Standard shortcuts, you will need to add CTRL F for the Line Marking Manager if you want to use this the same way.
When line objects are selected when you do CTRL + F on the keyboard, line markings are displayed on the selected lines only. You can select objects at any time and do CTRL+F to change the lines on which the line markings are displayed.
When no objects are selected when you do CTRL + F on the keyboard, the line marking manager command executes and the dialog below will be displayed, providing you with a single user interface to all of the TBC functionality relating to Line Markings.
The Line Marking Manager command dialog looks as follows
Line marking settings:
You can use the following checkboxes to enable the line markings that you want displayed. Line markings are mutually exclusive with the show large deflections markings that display a marking on line nodes that have a line angle >160 degrees.
Line markings are used during the data prep and takeoff processes to display the elevations of nodes and VPIs on lines as the lines are elevated, this assists you to ensure that all elevations are assigned correctly.
All Checkbox:
Displays / Hides all of the line marking types below
Line End Points checkbox:
Displays a line marking at the start (solid circle) and end of a line (hollow circle)
Segment End Points checkbox:
Displays a line marking (dot / point) at the end of every segment of a line
VPIs checkbox:
Displays a line marking at every VPI location (triangle) along the line
VPI Labels checkbox:
Display’s the elevation or slope control used to compute the elevation of the VPI (label). Note VPIs can include elevation, inbound slope, outbound slope, slope slope, vertcal arc, and vertical curve types, the labels for the VPI provide details including the slope values and the length or radius of the curves etc.
3D Node Labels checkbox:
Displays the elevation of a 3D node (label)
Display:
There are two types of line marking available. The line markings described above, and the large deflection line markings. The two types are mutually exclusive and can be selected here.
Line Markings
Displays the line markings selected in the section above.
Large Deflections
Displays a line marking on any line node where the line angle at the node exceeds 160 degrees. This can be used to find double backs on selected lines to troubleshoot line issues. Typically, double backs can be created when lines are incorrectly joined, or are sourced in the CAD system that generated the CAD data originally and are usually hard to identify without this tool.
Label Settings
The label settings are controlled by the Support - Options command - Line Markings Color and Object labels controls. The current settings are displayed here. The Edit Settings button provides quick access to the Options dialog
Color
To change the color of the line markings, click Edit Settings and then modify the color of the Line marking color.
Font
To change the font size or properties of the line markings text, click Edit Settings and then select the […] button next to Object labels to modify the text font, text size or other properties. Note that object labels applies to more than just the line markings, so you may see other text items on screen change at the same time when you modify these settings.
Line Markings
Line markings can be applied to all lines or just a selection of lines. When you have a large number of lines in a project, displaying line markings on all lines will slow down the graphics performance of TBC and in addition will clutter the screen significantly with line marking text. In this scenario, you should select only a few lines that you are working on and enable line markings on the selected lines only. This improves graphics performance and reduces clutter on screen.
All lines radio button
This will enable line markings on all visible lines of the project when you select this option and click the Apply button.
Selected lines radio button
This will enable line markings on selected visible lines only when you select this option and click the apply button. Note that if the command is not open and you have CTRL F enabled as the shortcut for this command, when you select lines on screen and then use the CTRL F shortcut, the line markings will be enabled for the selected lines without opening the command dialog.
Select Lines
When the Selected radio button above is enabled, you can select lines here and then click Apply to display line markings for the selected lines only.
Show Radio button
When the Show radio button is enabled, line markings will be displayed on All or Selected lines. This is the same as the Toggle button at the base of the Graphics area being enabled (Yellow).
Hide Radio button
When the Hide radio button is enabled, line markings will not be displayed on All or Selected lines. This is the same as the Toggle button at the base of the Graphics area being disabled (Grey).
Clear line markings button:
If you wish to hide all line markings, click this button and the line marking state will be set to Hide.
Apply button:
The Apply button will action the settings and display / hide the line markings with the options / settings that you have enabled.
Header Bar Commands
The header bar of the command dialog contains links to other commands that you may find helpful while running this command. The following commands are enabled in this commands header bar.
Command Help
RPS Settings
Takeoff Lines
Smart Edit
Adjust Linestring Elevation
Command Shortcuts
CTRL F is the command shortcut for the Line Marking Manager command.
If you have nothing selected and you use CTRL F, RPS Settings - Line Marking Settings controls the behavior of the command
- The command dialog will open on CTRL F. If this option is selected, you can clear the line marking buffer using the toggle button at the base of the graphics area or you can clear the buffer from within the open Line Marking Manager command dialog. We recommend using the command in this mode over option 2 below.
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- The Line Marking Buffer will be cleared on CTRL F - this removes all line markings from all lines. If this option is selected then you can open the command dialog only through clicking the command on a toolbar or from the Tool Shed menu command icon.
Note: The line marking toggle switch at the base of the graphics area will also clear the line markings when in Off state. If you select some lines and use CTRL F it will switch on line markings and display them for the selected lines only.
Command Tips
The command tips area provides user tips relating to help, shortcuts or usage tips for the command without need to access the online help pages.
Close
Closes the command without further execution.
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