Template MS Annotate Labeling Defaults 2005

[B. K. Lemons]

[Richard Sands]

[B. K. Lemons]

[B. K. Lemons]

[Richard Sands]

[B. K. Lemons]

[Jason Poitras]

Hi Guys,

To clarify a couple of things you need to consider that some settings are saved in the drawing, and some settings are saved in the incad.cfg file.

Drawing Specific Settings

Cad specific settings that you might want to put in a drawing template such as layers, text styles (not labeling defaults), viewres and other command line variable variables are all saved internally in the dwg.

A quick way to "import" these into new drawings is to create a template drawing by saving one of your drawings with an extension of .dwt. Once you set this as the template, every new drawing you start will load the drawing settings you've defined.

Normally you will overwrite the existing icad.dwt template file with your own version.

MicroSurvey Settings

MicroSurvey related settings such as labeling defaults, or general configuration settings are saved in a file called incad.cfg. When you make a new drawing we copy this file into the projects .msj directory and it becomes part of that project. That is why you can make changes to the label defaults in one project without affecting your other projects.

You can update the default incad.cfg at any time by going to MsTools | MicroSurvey System Defaults | Save as Default Configuration. This will take the current settings and save them permanently to the default incad.cfg file. Then any new drawing you create will use these new settings.

[B. K. Lemons]

Thanks for the info.

By the way, Jason, any plans to add MrSid import and/or any elementary GIS capabilities to the software any time soon? That would be a big boost for use of the software. Looks like other packages are coming on stronger all the time with their all-in-one GIS-surveying-CAD software (actually more like GIS with add-ins for surveying and CAD, or visa versa).

[Richard Sands]

Have you checked the movies?
http://www.microsurvey.com/products/fie ... ibutes.htm
This might do what you are after. You need Field Genius to work with.
regards, Richaard

[Jason Poitras]

Hello,

In 2008 we added minor support for Feature Attribute data collected with FieldGenius or TDS software. We know more and more surveyors are collecting GIS type data and this was one of the big reasons why we spent so much time on the new database structure, alphanumerics and LandXML support. All this work will help us add more features in the future.

Regarding Mr. SID files, we are looking into it but have not found a good solution or fit yet.

[Richard Sands]

I would like to add attributes to lines - don't think its currently available?
That would really be enhance FG + 2008.
This could also include annotation of the attributes in the labelling routine.
I think you would have a winner then.
regards, Richard