Up until now I've been creating cross-section scraps and inserting them
within plan or elevation scraps using a statement like;
point 331.25 -43.0 section -scrap BX-Ent2PLANxs-24
This is how I think it is usually done(?)
It works fine most of the time, but sometimes the density of passages is
such that the cross-section needs to be on the far side of the page, or
maybe you prefer to group the cross-sections together in their own little
table. This makes including the cross-section insertion points within plan
or elevation scraps impractical I think.
Some time back there were discussions on this forum about alternative ways
of presenting cross-sections however I am not sure if they were resolved.
Something in the Therion Book made me think this might give interesting
results.
1. Add one or more cross-section scraps to a map (or maps) of type
-projection none
2. Export those maps to a map output.
So perhaps the result below is interesting, but I'm not sure how I might
develop it further into a means of presenting the cross-sections where the
sections are not plotted adjacent to the plan or elevation of the passage.
The trouble is all the cross-section maps plot on top of each other.
One way might be to export each cross-section one at a time then have lots
of map-image statements to add them to a final master map. This would be a
very messy th-config file.
Or would a plan scrap with no associated survey, and lots of 'point x y
section -scrap <scrap>' work?
Has anyone tried to layout cross-sections independent of the passage without
resorting to post processing?
Bruce
(Example below)
map BX-Ent2SectionsA \
-projection none
BX-Ent2PLANxs-24
BX-Ent2PLANxs-94
endmap
map BX-Ent2SectionsB \
-projection none
BX-Ent2PLANxs-36
BX-Ent2PLANxs-27
endmap
.
export map -projection none \
-layout LayoutMapThisCave \
-layout LayoutMapThisCaveElev \
-layout-scale 1 100 \
-layout-scale-bar 10 m \
-output ../Outputs/CaveSections.pdf
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