I noticed there is a problem with the Cave Depth value when running Statistics. In my case, the Surface survey elevation from one entrance to another gets...
Randy, Thanks for your letter. ... This is actually a more complicated problem than it appears. The "flags" in Compass, (the ones that you enter in the ...
Hello! I'm new with Compass. I found a wonderful feature of this program: vrml exportation. However, it seams not to work with me. I gave up trying. I have ...
Sergio, Thanks for your letter. I have found the source of the problem and I have fixed it. There is a new version of Compass up on the internet. Download it...
Any time I try to enter a letter in a "Find" text box that also happens to be a shortcut key, Compass executes the shortcut rather than accepting the letter. ...
Ron, I've noticed the same problem that you mentioned with entering a letter that happens to be a short-cut key in any of the "find" windows in COMPASS. A good...
Stan_Allison@...
Jun 25, 2006 4:46 pm
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Hi Everybody, Thanks for the heads up on the problem. I have fixed it and there a new version of Compass on the internet here: ...
Thanks for the work around - seems like a fairly serious bug to me - quite frustrating....
Ron Miller
miller.ron@...
Jun 26, 2006 2:35 am
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Ron, ... The work around is now unnecessary because the bug has been fixed. The bug apparently occurred when I upgraded to the latest version of the Compiler...
I am having difficulty finding the correct coordinate system for a shapefile created through Compass. I haven't had difficulty defining a projection for the...
Hi Eric- My understanding is that none of the cave survey programs create the projection file that ArcGIS requires. This must be defined in ArcToolBox. The...
Aaron is correct. Compass does not generate any information about the coordinate system for the cave data. The Shapefiles themselves have no provision this...
Thanks for the info. It helped me sort out what was going on. It turns out that I was doing ok as far as defining the projection. I had used Compass created...
Jon, I don't have any direct experience working with Illustrator, but I found some discussion on the internet about Adobe dropping DXF support between CS1 and...
Hi Jon, ... Illustrator can read and edit postscript files. Install a postscript printer driver (e.g. the one from Adobe) and print your survey into a file....
Roger Schuster
speleo@...
Dec 9, 2006 10:20 am
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I'm confused.... my copy of AI CS2 can import (place) and export DXF ???? Am I missing something? Aaron ________________________________ From:...
Jon and Larry, I use Adobe Illustrator CS1 for drafting cave maps and have also found that Illustrator won't read the DXF exports from Compass. I don't like...
Stan_Allison@...
Dec 9, 2006 5:26 pm
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... Me too! Two people say that you cannot import DXF into CS2 but the web page and Aaron say you can. Maybe there is an option that has to be installed before...
Larry and Aaron, Illustrator CS1 and CS2 can import DXF files. However, the DXF files that Compass exports do are not readable by Illustrator CS1 or CS2. Hope...
Stan_Allison@...
Dec 9, 2006 11:10 pm
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If you could get a simple DXF file that WILL import to AI then it should be easy enough to compare a simple Compass file see what is not contained in the...
I remember seeing a tutorial video at Brandon Kowallis website. http://www.brandonkowallis.com/Video.htm He talked about having to import the DXF into...
kurt
kurt@...
Dec 10, 2006 1:00 am
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Cave Mappers, I have had this problem for quite awhile. In the past I had access to a machine with Illustrator 10 which nicely imports DXF and then would save...
This issue illustrates one of the more difficult problems for me as the author of Compass. Compass has been exporting DXF files for more than 10 years. The DXF...
Larry, Maybe export to SVG should be looked into. It would be great way to import full-featured lineplots, topographic overlays, and 3D views into a full ...
SVG is certainly at the top of my list of things to do. One thing to be aware of is that SVG cannot replace DXF. SVG is a two-dimensional format where as DXF...
... I've tried many Compass export formats over the years, for import into Freehand or AI. These ranged from HPGL (plotter) to BMP, WMF, EMF, and Postscript....
I just checked and Illustrator CS1 can import the Compass Windows Meta Files (WMF), but not the Enhanced Windows Meta file. The WMF isn't quite as nice as the...
Stan_Allison@...
Dec 10, 2006 10:41 pm
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Good information John, thanks for the post. Has anyone out there experimented with printing from Compass to Adobe Distiller to generate a PDF and then tried...
After Stan's post I did a search for Wmf Compass plots in my files and found several that actually look pretty good for small areas (8.5 x 11). The problem, I...
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