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Intersection Fixer
Make
perfect MicroStation line intersections automatically!
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Why you need Intersection
Fixer
Just because you have the best MicroStation
users in the world doesn’t mean they’re
perfect. How many operators are so careful that
they make every single pair of lines (and arcs and
curves) meet exactly?
The answer is darn few. Because a user who spent
that much time trying to be that perfect could end
up with low productivity.
Most real-life MicroStation users interject dozens
of minor (or major) inaccuracies into your design
files every day. The best users introduce less than
others, but still, if you look, the inaccuracies
are there.
Inaccurate line intersections are a very common
problem. Two lines or arcs that should meet exactly
don’t. Maybe they overlap a bit. Or maybe there’s
an unwanted gap between them.
You may not easily see such errors on the screen,
but when plotted they can become embarrassingly
evident to you, to your boss and to your customers.
Intersection Fixer
solves this problem.
Manual quality control is painstaking and expensive.
Intersection Fixer cleans up sloppy intersections
for a fraction of a human proofreader’s salary.
Where do overshoots and
undershoots come from?
Overshoots and undershoots are the result of imprecise
digitizing (perhaps, the most common kind). Raster
to vector converters can be another source of overshoots
and undershoots.
Intersection Fixer will automatically correct
overshoots and undershoots of lines and line strings
in a MicroStation design file. If a line is too short
to touch a line it should meet exactly, it is automatically
extended. If a line overlaps a line it should meet
exactly, it is automatically shortened. Since almost
all design files have at least some overshoots and
undershoots, Intersection Fixer is useful to
the vast majority of MicroStation users, regardless
of their discipline. Intersection Fixer is not just
for mapping projects.
Other features:
- Delete elements that are smaller than the user specified tolerance.
- Flag element endpoints to show what is cleanable or uncleanable.
- Interactive mode to control the cleaning process one element at a time.
How do I control the
clean-up process?
Intersection Fixer accepts a parameter file.
The parameter file tells Intersection Fixer
several things:
- Which elements should be adjusted. Elements can be selected based on level, color, style and weight.
- Which elements should the above elements be compared against. For example, if you know that elements on level 31 are only annotation, you could specify that Intersection Fixer not compare against elements on that level. Elements to compare can also be selected by type, level, color, style and weight.
- The parameter file also specifies the tolerance to clean to. Elements that miss (overshoot or undershoot) by more than the tolerance are not corrected.
To take full control of the cleaning process as
it happens, use the interactive mode settings and
enter the interactive mode to clean one element
at a time.
Intersection Fixer
also cleans curves, arcs, and connected strings.
Intersection Fixer can also clean curves,
arcs, and connected strings. In addition, this algorithm
includes the ability to compare against arcs, connected
strings, curves, ellipses, and complex shapes.
One of the most important features of Intersection
Fixer is that it accomplishes the cleaning of
arcs and curves without stroking them down to line
strings. Stroking arcs and curves down to line strings
is highly undesirable because it increases design
file size, slows down redraws and makes design files
display and plot with choppy straight lines instead
of elegant curves. With Intersection Fixer,
your design files retain all the intelligence, efficiency
and grace they start with.
Call now!
For more information,
call 727-442-7774 extension 6802 in the United
States or e-mail
us.
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