Greetings, Has anyone used the 'distance from entrance' feature successfully? My cave is in a single .dat file which I'm using to determine distances from the...
Jean, I have a few of thoughts about why you might not be able to use the "Distance" feature. The most likely cause is that the Compass "Plot" file for the...
I thought that this would be a good time to give everybody an update on Compass. I have finally added the "Developed Profile" feature that people have been...
Hi Larry, I would like to express my thanks and admiration for all the work you do and have done for the caving community... and that even after such a...
Paul, ... That's a good question. I hadn't even thought of them. At this point if you don't close the loop, a large offset will occur at the closing station....
Hi Larry, is it somehow possible to convert from a PLT file to a DAT file? You don't have some little tool for that? I need to convert a big survey file which...
Hi Paul, One method for going from VisualTopo to Compass would be to go through Auriga (www.speleo.qc.ca/auriga) . The Auriga Conduit can input and output...
Hi Chris, I know the Compass format quite well, I have also written a converter from a specific Text format to Compass, from Compass to Onstation etc (you can...
Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier. I have been in and out for the past couple of days. I don't have a program that will directly convert a PLT file into a...
... Auriga allows dimensions to be set at either station of each survey shot. If you upload a VTopo file into Auriga, the conduit should thus set the LRUDs to...
Hi Larry, thanks for the offer but it will be quicker to use the VT data. Actually the data format is a simple text file, Compass style if you like. That's...
Oops I made a type here: this must read (of course) One problem is that in VTopo the passage dimensions are mesured at the TO station and not at the (more...
I here forward a reply from Luc (author of Auriga), he is not on the Compass list Paul De Bie Speleoclub Avalon vzw - BELGIE http://www.scavalon.be ... From:...
All This is my first post on the forum. This subject may have come up before; sorry if this is an old question. I'd search to forum archive but signing up on...
Dwight Livingston
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Sep 25, 2007 1:08 am
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Dwight, Thanks for your letter. I agree with you that the information should go into the DAT files. I am working on a new data format that will allow all sorts...
Hi Larry- Well, I do have a question about the Tape Correction field in the survey editor, as I just had an opportunity to use it this week; we broke our...
Hi John, Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner; I have been kind of busy with the holidays. ... [...] ... You are correct. The documentation isn't worded very...
Folks Just went through this over the weekend again and tuned in here to see if there was any previous help/discussion. I went through the discussion from Dec...
H- I've looked at this in the past, without much success. The next step I was thinking of doing was to generate a DXF from AI and compare the structure of the...
I've been trying this and it seems like it works pretty good. Go here: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp and download the free .pdf writer. ...
I open the .plt file in Aven (Survex). From Aven I export it in SVG.format. And Adobe illustrator reads it. Torstein Torstein Finnesand adresse: Sølve...
Torstein Finnesand
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Jan 7, 2008 10:10 pm
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Thanks everybody for your input. You have come up with some interesting ... The DXF data is exported from Compass un-scaled. In other words, if a shot is 100...
... a shot ... long. The ... design and ... I found this to be correct - however my issues was getting the DXF generated lineplot back OUT of autocad into...
Howard, ... When Windows displays an image on the screen, it does it at a certain number of Dots Per Inch (DPI). It is usually 96 DPI, but it may be a...
Did you know that 3D caves can be displayed with Acrobat? If you have Acrobat 8.1 check this out. http://jonjasper.com/pdf3D/Timpanogos%20Cave%20System.pdf You...
Larry Sorry for the delay. I did try some of the steps you outlined, with no success. I am afraid I will never sound like I know what I am doing here, because ...
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