I have a quick and dirty script that sort of already does this. I'm currently not at home but will post what I have on my return in a few days. Documenting and improving it has been on my list of things to do for a while now
Andrew On Sun, 26 May 2019, 20:18 Tarquin Wilton-Jones via Therion, < [email protected]> wrote: > > Do you have stations in all the sections? > > > I do not need this, but I could - I have tested and it would work with > multiple stations in the cross section. > > I was planning to create the sections after exporting an XVI, rather > than using any existing cross sections (though it would of course be > nice to know if an existing cross section could be used - I am sure > other people wanting to do this will want to use existing cross > sections). I can in fact think of a way to use existing cross sections > like that, by copying and moving them into position with the exported > points, so it is not impossible. It would of course be nice if it were > easier, but I can work with it as it is. > > > source “cystanog.th" > > export map -projection [elevation 355] -fmt xvi -output “centerline.xvi" > > > The biggest issue with this is that there will be 2500 stations in that > exported centreline. The cave is extremely linear, and when projected on > a bearing of 355 (which is what I need for the cross sections), they are > almost all in the same 3 locations. So many that it is almost impossible > to find the 3 stations I am interested in, and even harder to find the > splays that relate to them. See the attached images. > > This is why I wanted to export only the 3 stations and related splays, > so I can actually see what to work with. > > > If you use it as background image and create a scrap in which only those > > three stations and profiles will be defined and exported map with that > > scrap, you receive what you need. Not use point station in that scrap, > > and set its projection as none. I’m not sure what it will do with scale > > option in layout. > > > > Then input the .th2 file with that scrap to .th file and use in plan > > scraps for section the name of that scrap as reference. > > > > It should work. > > > Exactly what I was planning to do, yes. Good, so I am not insane :) > Thanks for confirming this technique. > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion >
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