Richer data in .3d file

[Erin Lynch]

--- John Pybus <john.pybus@zoology.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
> Olly Betts wrote:

> > Survex 1.2 should have complete handling of LRUD data, and also
> > allow colouring surveys by date or closure error 

While you're changing things, could we have user-specified mappings of
depth ranges to colour?  I'd quite like to be able to set it so
everything below the level of the dam in Tian Xing is in one colour.

> > depth).  It should also have printing and file export (as DXF, etc)
> > integrated into Aven.  But these won't all be in 1.1.0.

For the way I draw up in Illustrator, it'd be useful to have the option
to output a postscript file of a user-specified scale to an arbitrarily
huge piece of imaginary paper.  Currently I do this using printps with
A-ridiculous defined in print.ini  

Also I've noticed that if you output at 1:1000 and 1:2000, then scale
the first in a program like Illustrator, the two centrelines will not
align perfectly.  It would be nice if they did, especially when
stitching together two caves drawn up at different scales.

> Any thoughts on supporting arbitrary metadata in the output .3d
> format?

Bring it on! User-defined flags would be very useful indeed, and if
they're too difficult then it would be great to just have something
along the lines of *flags topography.

I recently told Matt that I'd really like to be able to see the surface
and underground fixed points for an area without being distracted by
the huge number fixed points that hold the topo contours in place. 
Display options in aven for topography along the lines of those for
surface and underground would be excellent.

Cheers,
Erin


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