Surface Grade Vectors

Generates 3D Vectors and information from block insert pointers and attributes.

Keyboard Command: SurGrdVec

Procedure:

1. Open the drawing containing the block inserts for the vector start points.
2. Initiate the command from the menu, ribbon or command above.
3. Specify the primary and target surfaces.
4. Specify the source and output attributes.
5. Designate any additional parameters.
6. Click OK to close the dialog.
7. Select the inserts to process.

Notes:

• The resulting textual information can be harvested with any decent block and attribute extraction tool.
• These attributes available in the dropdowns change as you change the block.
• You can optionally push the block insert handle back to an attribute as a unique identifier.
• The slope attribute must have already been filled in using #.## (slope) or ##° (degrees) or #:1 (ratio).
• The length is calculated and pushed back into the designated length attribute.
• The North, East, and Elev fields are those of the end of the vector. The block insertion point represents the begin.
• If you draw temporary lines you can clear those at any time with the GMCLEAR command.