Section - Band Vertical line setting

[Benw]

Hi All,

From the attachement you can see I'm having trouble getting the vertical band line (in the Proposed Offsets band) to marry into the line above (the Proposed Levels band). I need to have staggering set to both ways. Any help appreciated.

Cheers Ben

[Stuart - LCC]

Hi Ben,

You need to change the "Stagger Line Height" in the band settings.  Only the top line should have a value for this, all the others should be zero.

Stuart

[Benw]

Thanks Stuart.

I should start another topic but - do you have any idea how to weed grade breaks by degree of grade break instead of distance? What I mean is I want to weed my sections by stipulating a change of grade (say greater than 4%) instead of a distance. I find that with distance the information shown may miss major changes of grade.

Cheers
Ben

[deanp]

Hi Ben,

No unforch. There is no setting to stipulate that you only want labels within a certain grade change, and yes you are right the weeding does not give you the chance to choose which labels you want removed. What you can do though is hold down the Ctrl key and select the ordinate line and the individual band lables you want removed and delete them with the delete key. Obvoiusly you only want to be doing this for a few labels but it can be done to clean up individual section views.

Regards
Dean Petersen
AEC Systems (NZ)

[Benw]

Thanks Dean

[andrewp]

Ben,

Dean got in before me but i'll post this anyway.

On the bands you are limited to weeding by distance.

For the profile labels, you can have an expression which could use the grade in and grade out to determine the change in grade and somehow use that to automatically weed the labels. I think it would be tricky, as you need to control the drawing of linework which is always fun.

If you don't have a lot of labels you can manually weed by selecting the one you want to get rid of while holding the control key and then hitting delete or changing the visibility in the properties pallete. Just make sure one label is selected and not the entire label/band set. Works for the band albels and the profile/section labels.

[Benw]

Thanks again Andrew, your depth of knowledge on this is impressive.

Yes I have to many to weed individually (around 300 sections). Luckly I'm only checking someone else's design but i did have to create the sections and am only trying to replicate what is shown in their design pdf plans. Whatever software they used (Bentley Inroads, I think) must have been able to weed by change in grade or someother method better than c3d.

Cheers Ben.