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Pads Mode (B)
The Pads mode allows you to elevate building pads or other fixed elevation lines using manually entered elevations, elevations extracted from clicked text labels, from 3D click locations, or from text that defines the elevations that is placed within the bounds of the building pad itself. You can also create offset lines if you need to subgrade adjust the pad, add an overbuild or compute a basement or footings adjustment etc.
Video Demonstration
The Pads mode dialog looks as follows
Pad mode
You can select from the following options to determine the method of deriving the Pad elevation
- Elevation - enter an elevation or click on a piece of text or a 3D location to extract the elevation
- From text - select the pad(s) and their associated elevation text values
Filter
When you select the From text pad mode, you can define a filter that can be used to find the correct value in a multi line text item that may contain one or more possible elevation values. In the absence of a Filter being applied, the first line of text will be used.
For example
Pad text that shows the following presents 3 possible values
Pad 001
FG=123.123
SG=122.123
If you do not define a filter then the elevation of this pad would be 1’
If you define a Filter FG then the elevation of the pad will be 123.123
If you define a Filter SG then the elevation of the pad will be 122.123
If a Filter is defined but no match is found, then the first line will be used and the elevation of the pad will be 1’
Pad elevation options
Create offset checkbox
Check the checkbox if you want to create an offset line to the source line with a different elevation. Note that if you use this option to model a subgrade adjustment or overbuild or basement footing, the line needs to be offset horizontally by e.g. 0.01 inside the pad line so that the model you later create does not have exactly vertical sides (slightly off vertical).
When checked enter the values required for the following settings
Direction
Select whether you want to offset the line Inside or outside the selected pad line (normally select inside).
Vertical Offset
Enter the value that you want to adjust the elevation of the offset line by i.e. if you are subgrade adjusting the pad by -2’ then enter -2’ here.
Horizontal Offset
Enter the value that you want to horizontally offset the pad line by i.e. if you are doing a -2’ subgrade adjustment or a 1’ overbuild then typically you will use an offset of e.g. 0.01’ so that any resulting model that includes the pad and offset lines does not have any perfectly vertical sides (surface model flags).
Name
Enter the name for the offset line you are creating e.g. Pad Subgrade or PAD SG etc.
Layer
Select or create a new layer for the offset line that you are creating.
Use elevation formula
If you have a large number of pads to elevate, and if you are entering the elevation values manually or if you are using text and the text is only defined to 2 digit coordinates e.g. on the plans it shows pad elevation as 46.56 but you know it is 4046.56 then you can use the elevation formula to minimize data entry or to correct values that are determined from text values on the drawing. An elevation formula of {Z}+4000 will convert 46.56 to 4046.56 etc. You can use standard math operators +, /, -, * to compute the desired values.
Auto Apply checkbox
When checked, the lines and or text that you select will be automatically computed without the need to click the Apply button. When unchecked you can make selections and then click the Apply button when you are ready to execute the elevation adjustments.
Linestring
Pick the linestring or linestrings that you want to adjust depending on the Pad mode option that you selected. When you select Elevation mode, you can select one line at a time and enter its elevation. When you select Text mode, you can select any number of pad lines plus any number of elevation text labels and it will compute all those that it can in a single step.
The command dialog will loop continuously using the same settings between select the line and enter the elevation value or select the lines and text / execute.