GeoTools->Polylinie ToolSet 3

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The polyline tools are a set of tools for performing various types of editing and inquiry operations on polylines.

 




Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Versetzen und Original löschen
Command line: GT_OFFSET 

The GT_OFFSET command is used to offset an object and delete the original object. This is a quick way to displace an object sideways. Use this command when you wish to save yourself the bother of deleting the original object. 

Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Polylinienabschnitte mehrfach variabel versetzen
Command line: GT_MVOFFSET
See Under Konstruktions Tools 


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Höhenunterschiede in Polylinien hervorheben
Command line: GT_VXDROP

The GT_VXDROP command identifies polylines, lines, splines and 3dfaces whose vertex elevation range (difference of maximum and minimum elevations) exceed a specified value. Enter the desired vertex elevation difference into the dialog box shown above.

See Also: GT_PL_STAT, GT_VXLABEL, GT_FINDZRNG, GT_DWG_STAT


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Letzten redundanten Polylinienpunkt entfernen / hinzufügen
Command line: GT_FIXCLOSED 

The GT_FIXCLOSED command helps to add or remove the last vertex of a closed polyline.

Add Closing Vertex
Adds a redundant "last" vertex to closed polylines. This duplicates the first and last vertex of a closed polyline. The new vertex is added only if the distance between the first and last vertex is greater than the closing tolerance specified in the dialog box above.

Closed polylines do not necessarily need the last vertex to be repeated as the first vertex. When the "close" flag is set, the last segment is automatically closed. But this can cause undesirable results when the polylines are exported to other programs as DXF or exported as ASCII from GeoTools. This option helps identify such cases and fix the polylines by adding a redundant vertex.

Remove Closing Vertex
Removes the last vertex from the polyline if the distance between the first and last vertex is less than the value specified in the dialog box above.

There are two types of polyline that this option helps to identify and fix:

  • Polylines which appear to be visually closed but may not have the "Closed" flag set.

  • Polylines which are actually closed but have the closing (last) vertex repeated as the first vertex.

The GT_FIXCLOSED command will convert the above two types of polylines into a closed polyline (with the closed flag set) in which the first and last vertices will not be duplicated. The user can enter a tolerance value to check for the distance between the first and last vertex of the polyline. Only those polylines which are shorter than this value in the first-last distance will be processed. This helps to eliminate very small segments that may be sometimes formed in the last segment.

This operation of adding or removing the redundant vertex can be useful because some programs or operations may not work on polylines having or not having the first and last vertex of the polyline duplicated.

See Also: GT_DISTANGWEED


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Compute running perimeter, cumulative areas
Command line: GT_PERIMETR 
See Under Abfrage Tools


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Leiste zwischen zwei Polylinien
Command line: GT_FILLETPOLY 

The GT_FILLETPOLY command allows filleting to be done between two polylines. The two segments of the polyline nearest to the ends picked will be filletted according to the specified radius.

The command is now offered as a replacement for the standard AutoCAD fillet command, which has several short-comings. For example, the AutoCAD fillet command does not work correctly under the following situations:
a. Fillet between an ARC and a polyline object
b. Fillet between a LINE and polyline that has arc segments near the fillet end.
c. Fillet between an ARC and polyline that has arc segments near the fillet end.

The GT_FILLETPOLY command processes all of the cases in (a), (b) and (c) above successfully.

Fillet Radius:
Specify the radius to be applied for filleting across all the segments of the multiple selected polylines.

Command: filletpoly

Select first polyline: <do so>
Select second polyline: <do so>

Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Mehrfache Polylinien abrunden
Command line: GT_MFILLET  

The GT_MFILLET command allows mulitple polylines to be filleted at once with the Fillet Polyline option.

Fillet Radius: Specify the radius to be applied for filleting across all the segments of the multiple selected polylines.


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Linie/Polylinie mit verschiedenen BKS bereinigen.

Command line: GT_FIXUCS  
See Under Diverse Tools


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Versetzen geschlossener Polylinien nach innen und aussen
Command line: GT_INOUTOFFSET 

The GT_INOUTOFFSET allows multiple closed polylines to be offsetted INwards or OUTwards with one single command.

Command: GT_INOUTOFFSET
Select Objects: (select polylines to offset)
Offset direction: [ Inwards/Outwards ] <Outwards>: (Type Inwards or Outwards)

See Also:  GT_OFFSET


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Messen mit Mehrfach-Variablen
Command line: GT_MVMEASURE
See Under Konstruktions Tools

GT_MVMEASURE Tutorial



Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Linien und Bögen in Polylinien umwandeln
Command line:  GT_LINE2PL  

The LINE2PL command is used to convert AutoCAD LINE, ARC and CIRCLE objects into polyline objects. The dialog box allows options to create either a light weight or heavy weight polyline out of the source objects.


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Lineare Polylinien mit Bögen ausrunden
Command line:  GT_PLINE2ARC 
See Under Konvertierung Tools


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 2d/3d Polinien mit automatischem Pan zeichnen
Command line: GT_AUTOPAN 
See Under Zeichnen Tools

Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Lineare Polylinien aus Polylinien mit Bögen zeichnen
Command line: GT_LINPOLY

The GT_LINPOLY command is used to create a linear polyline from an arced polyline. It creates a polyline formed by joining each vertex of the polyline with straight lines ignoring the arced part. The arced part is left as it is and the two ends of the arc are joined together to form the polyline geometry. The GT_LINPOLY command has an option to run without the dialog box selector.



Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3    
     
Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Zentroidpunkte/ Beschriftung für Polylinien erzeugen

Command line: GT_CREATECENTROID

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The GT_CREATECENTROID command is used to create centroidal marks inside closed polylines.

Layer to create in:
Source: Creates the centroidal marks in the source layer( i.e the layer in which the closed polylines reside).
Current: Create  all the centroidal marks in the current layer
Specify: Choosing this option allows to specify the layer in which the centroidal marks will be created.
Select: Clicking on Select button pops up the Select Layer dialog box. 

Object to create: Specifies the type of object to create.
ACAD Point: An AutoCAD point object is created at the centroidal location of each closed polyline.
Running Text Number: A Text string is created which is incremented by 1 each time for the next polygon being annotated with centroidal marks.
Fixed Text string: A fixed text string value is used for the annotation of the centroidal mark. The value of this text string is specified in the edit box provided for it.

Start Number: Specify the start number to be used for the annotation, if the Running Number Text option was chosen.
Format Width: Specify the required format width. This will prefix Zero before the running number text and the number of Zero's prefixed will be one less then the format width specified.
Fixed Text string value: Specify the value of the fixed text string to use for annotations.
Text Height: Enter the required text height for running number text and fixed text string.

Ensure that the centroidal point always falls physically inside polygon: If this option is checked and if the centroidal falls outside the polygon, it will be moved to a location physically inside the polygon.

The GT_CREATECENTROID command has an option to run without the dialog box selector.

GT_CREATECENTROID Tutorial



Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Regionen aus Polyliniennetz bilden
Command line: GT_CCPOLY 


The GT_CCPOLY command is used to create closed polylines from a mass of inter-networked polylines, lines, arcs and circles. It is nothing but an automated version of the BPOLY command and it applies BPOLY at regular intervals in X and Y directions along a rectangular grid and creates closed polylines (resulting from BPOLY) from the adjoining boundary set. The program uses a parameter called 'Scan Window Size' to determine the BPOLY sampling interval. Needless to say, the GT_CCPOLY can be quite slow in its operation because if has no intelligent way to know how many unique closed polylines would be created. Since the BPOLY sampling is done at each regular interval, the program takes more time if the sampling interval is smaller and vice versa. Nevertheless, the program can be useful in many cases. Use it judiciously by applying a scan window size that works best with a speed and accuracy.

Scan method:
Automatic: 

At selected points: 

Scan Window Size: Enter the amount of search (scan) size 

Zoom Window size: Enter the amount of zoom size. 

Select Layer for closed polylines :
Clicking on this button pops up  the dialog box for selecting the layers of closed polylines

Select Layer for polygon edges : Clicking on this button pops up  the dialog box for selecting the layers of polygon edges.


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
     
Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3
Polylinien n 3dface konvertieren
Command line: GT_PL23DFACE 

The GT_PL23DFACE command creates 3dface objects out of any 3 or 4-sided 2d/3d polyline objects.

See Also: GT_3DF2PL 

 

Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
     
Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Summierte Polylinienflächen von gewählten Layern berechnen 

Command line: GT_LAYERAREA 

The GT_LAYERAREA command displays the total summed area and length of all polylines in selected layer(s).

Select layers: Clicking on this button displays the complete list of layers in the drawing. From this list, you can select the layers for which you want the total summed areas to be displayed and these will be displayed each time the command starts.

Create table of layers areas: Checking this box generates a table of Area, Length and Color of selected layers as shown below.

GT_LAYERAREA Tutorial

Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
     
Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Benachbarte geschlossene Polylinien zusammenfassen

Command line: GT_MERGEPOLY 

The GT_MERGEPOLY command is used to merge adjacent closed polylines which have overlapping and common boundaries between them. This is a useful tool to process a set of adjacent closed polylines resulting from typical GIS analyses etc. and retain only the outer-most external boundary out of them. For this program to function, there must be overlapping segments between two polygons. If there is no overlapping polylines segments at the boundary, it will not be processed.

An illustration of what this program does is shown in the image below:


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 3D Polylinien mit automaticher Höhenzuweisung zeichnen
Command line: GT_DRAWPOLYINCRDECR

See Under Zeichnen Tools


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Mehrfachstützpunkt Editor
Command line: GT_MVEDIT 

The GT_MVEDIT command is used to edit multiple vertex positions from multiple selected polylines, lines and arcs.

With the GT_MVEDIT command, you can move multiple vertices from many objects at once in the X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ or XYZ directions while keeping the other coordinate unchanged. Think of this as a tool similar to the XYZ point filters in AutoCAD, but applied across multiple objects and multiple selected points of a polyline, line or arc.



Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Mathematische Zwischenlinie zwischen zwei Isolinien erzeugen
Command line: GT_CONTOUROFFSET



The GT_CONTOUROFFSET command can be used to create an offset polyline in between two given polylines. This command is most likely to be useful in offsetting two contour polylines and creating an intermediate offset contour polyline.

This command will ask the user for two polylines representing two contours and will create an intermediate "offset" polyline at the correct interpolated elevation between the two polylines. The aim of this command is also to create the offset polyline in such a manner that it represents the best horizontal position interpolation between the two polylines.

The location of vertices for the offset polyline will be determined on the basis on configurable parameters like 'Offset Percent' (percentage distance between the two polylines) or an absolute distance from a point on the first polyline and measured towards a similar point on the second polyline.

The algorithm used to determine the offset polyline positions is not yet perfect to handle polylines of all geometric shapes. Often, the command may create offset polylines which are completely unacceptable as an interpolated offset. We would like you to be aware of these limitations.

To overcome some of these bugs, you may run the command again reversing the order of pick for the first and second polylines. This may sometimes produce better results.

Alternatively, you can also try to apply either of the two algorithms that the program uses. If one algorithm does not work for one set of polylines, the other might work or produce better results.

To determine a match point on the second polyline, the program uses a technique which is based on proportionally equivalent distance matching between and along the two polylines.

Algorithm to use:

Method 1: Select this option to use the primary algorithm

Method 2: Select this option to use the alternative algorithm, if the primary algorithm does not work.

Offset Method:

Percentage: If you select this option, the offset polyline will be created at the specified percentage distance between the first polyline and second polyline.

Distance: If you select this option, the offset polyline will be created at the specified distance from the first polyline towards the second polyline.

Sampling Method:

At Each vertex: If you select this option, the offset polyline will be created using each vertex of the first polyline. The offset polyline will have only as many vertices as the first source polyline.

At sampling interval: If you select this option, the first polyline will be sampled according to this interval and for each of these sampled points, the corresponding offset polyline points will be generated.

Sampling interval: Enter the distance along the first source polyline along to create sampling points, which will then be used to create offset polyline points.

Percentage distance from first polyline: Enter the percentage distance from first polyline at which to create the offset polyline points.

Actual distance from first polyline: Enter the actual distance from first polyline at which to create the offset polyline points.



Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Polylinien Höhentrend analysieren und reparieren
Command line: GT_ZTREND

The GT_ZTREND command is used to analyze and fix (or set) Z elevation trends in 3d polylines.

In many 3d mapping situations, it is often necessary to ensure that digitized 3d polylines have consistently Upwards or Downwards flowing vertex elevations in 3d polyines. The GT_ZTREND command helps to check and ensure this. In many instances of surveyed data, the elevation flow may temporarily be reversed within a tolerance. The command can also identify such within-tolerance reversals and fix the data if the reversal is within allowed limits (reversal tolerance).

Elevation flow must be:

Upwards (increasing values): Checks if the polyline vertex is moving downwards consistently.

Downwards (decreasing values): Checks if the polyline vertex is moving downwards consistently.

Elevation reversal tolerance: Enter the tolerance within which the

Include closed polylines also?: Check this button to include processing of closed polylines also.

Automatically correct elevation if within tolerance: Checking this button causes the program to automatically correct polyline elevations when the variation is within tolerance.



Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Freie Ende ( dangles) von Linien, Polylinien und Bogen finden
Command line: GT_DANGLECHECK  



The GT_DANGLECHECK command is useful to detect free standing ends of polylines, lines, arcs and splines, also known as dangling ends. A user-defined search window tolerance is applied around the ends and if there is no other object in the vicinity, the end is treated as a free standing end or a dangle. All such end points are marked with POINT objects in the GeoTools temporary layer "GEOTOOLS_TEMP" so that they can be easily checked.

Search Window Size around endpoints: Enter the value for search window around the objects endpoints.



Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Schnittspunkte entlang die Linien, Polylinien,Bogen und Splinien markieren
Command line: GT_INTERSECT
  

The GT_INTERSECT command can be used to mark points of intersection between polylines, lines, arcs and/or splines in any selection of objects. Please be aware that this command does not mark self-intersections between the segments of a single polyline or spline objects. Instead, it marks points where each entity intersects with other objects in the selection.


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Anschlußpunkt markieren auf einem Netzwerk von linearen Objekten
Command line: GT_JUNCTION
See Under Drawing CleanUp

Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3  
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Polylinien erzeugen durch die Verbindung von sortierten Punkten
Command line: GT_SORTEDPOLY



The GT_SORTEDPOLY command draws a polyline through selected points in (Positive X, Negattive X, Positive Y, Negative Y) direction. The command basically sorts the selected points on the basis of its X, Y coordinates and draws the polyline through the points in selected sort order.

Sort Order

Increasing X values : Choosing the option draws the polyline in increasing (positive) X direction.
Increasing Y values : Choosing the option draws the polyline in increasing (positive) Y direction.
Decreasing X values : Choosing the option draws the polyline in decreasing (negative) X direction.
Decreasing Y values : Choosing the option draws the polyline in decreasing (negative) Y direction.

Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Bogenenden zu Bogenzentren Verbindungen zeichnen, in Bogen und Polylinie-Bogen
Command line : GT_SHOWPLARCS

Layer to place:
Source: Creates the centroidal marks in the source layer ( i.e the layer in which the closed polylines reside).
Current: Create  all the centroidal marks in the current layer
Specify: Choosing this option allows to specify the layer in which the centroidal marks will be created.
Select: Clicking on Select button pops up the Select Layer dialog box. 

 


Toolbar : Polyline Tool Set 3
      Menu : GeoTools Polyline Tool Set 3 Bogen-segmenten von Polylinien umkehren(spiegelweise)
Command line : GT_PLARCMIRROR 
The GT_PLARCMIRROR command flips (mirrors) ONLY the arc segments of a polyline with arcs. This can be a useful tool to flip the direction of polyline arcs in many mapping situations where arced polylines are used to show vegetaion symbols. In particular, this command may be used to fix the polyline arc direction if it has been generated incorrectly by the GT_VEGLINE command in GeoTools.

 

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