Station coordinate Output

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 03:42:33AM -0400, Peter Smart wrote:
>  I need to obtain x,y,z coordinates for all survey points, and if
>  possible (having enterd the data), the left wall, rightwall, floor
>  and ceiling coordinates. Even better would be to have  the 4
>  'corner' coordinates for the fitted passage walls too. I would prefer
>  output as a comma space or tab delimited file suitable for Excel. How
>  do I do this?

You can convert the .3d file to a .pos file, which has a format like
this:

( Easting, Northing, Altitude )
(    1.00,     0.00,     0.00 ) 1
(    1.00,     1.00,     0.00 ) 2

That's just the centre-line data though.

I think on Windows you can right-click on a .3d file and select "Convert
for hand plotting".  Or from the command line the tool is "3dtopos".

I don't think there's currently an easy way to get the absolute
coordinates of the cross-section extremes in a CSV-like format though.

SVG export includes the cross-section data but it's not something you
could import into excel without somehow converting it first.

If you're happy scripting a conversion, then you could use "dump3d" from
the command line to get the centreline coordinates and the cross-section
sizes, and then compute the coordinates of the walls, etc from those.

> PS I have had printer errors trying o print from a computer running
> vista, doesnt happen witth Windows 8 and isnt cleared by reloading
> survex. Is this a general problem?

I don't recall anyone reporting issues printing from vista.  What are
the errors?

Cheers,
    Olly