Menu Options
N4ce Designer
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Cut/Fill Balancing and other Modelling Options
Many of the options for creating and editing both surveys and DTM's have been covered in descriptions for both Lite and Professional editions of n4ce. Whilst these tools are available to the Designer as well, here we shall explore other features specific to this edition.
A Cut/ Fill Balancing string option has been provided in Designer. This allows users to nominate a reference string and compare this to a reference DTM. n4ce will then offer various options, like introducing bulking factors and automatically battering up/down to create interface strings. This option is ideal for balancing quantities on building foundations.
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The New model option in the Project Tree, shown opposite, contains features unique to this edition, including Point Grid, Perp Offset, Bore Holes and From MX DTM.
Note. Models can be copied and pasted using the Windows Clipboard, including items on the Dedicated CAD Backcloth.
Also unique to this edition is the Design menu, shown right. This is accessed from the model graphics editor and contains major design features, discussed elsewhere.
Two different forms of gridded data can be accommodated in n4ce. Both OS Land Profile and Lidar data can be imported and stored in its native grid format allowing large models with rapid data access.
Whilst the Lite and Professional editions can use this gridded data, it's only with the Designer edition that full access and editing is available.
In the above New model menu an option is provided to create a Point Grid. This is a mesh that can be overlaid on top of an existing DTM with levels extracted at regular spacings, as shown in the main picture below. This is a general model and normal non-specialist tools can be used to access this data.
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The Footprint option in the above Design menu is an extension of the Point Grid option with added features.
A neat feature of Footprints is the nomination of the extents of the grid in perpendicular directions and an origin. You also nominate the angle of rotation of the grid so that it need not be vertical.
Further options are available for calculating the offsets from a determined plane, which could be min, max or average height of interpolated points on the grid. These offsets are stored in the Dimensions of each point and hence accessible with tools found elsewhere in n4ce, like List, Tables and Text Macros. |
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