How To Install Surpac
Christina Smith
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Firstly, you will need to obtain the GEOVIA Licence Manager software and install it on your machine, for example: GEOVIA.LicenseManager_14.8.1327.2.msi. You should receive this License Manager upon purchase of any GEOVIA software.
The format is a simple text file - example at the end. The first line is date, format etc, then each line starts with a line beginning with zero, then axis coordinates (not sure what they do, I think they can be ignored if zero) then string number,y,x,z,... for for each point of as many lines as are in the drawing.
Can anyone suggest a method of automating import of this into manifold. I can easily import as a csv table and paste as drawing to get the points. I remember reading on here of a technique to join consecutive points with lines, but I'm not very good at the search function, could anyone point me to it?
It would be useful to export them in 3D to autocad but I didn't think manifold would be able to do that. I suppose it could be simple enough for the special case of contour drawings where all the points of each line have the same z value.
No you can't run this in Manifold. It's a new tool to learn, but if you are keen I'm confident you can use this easily to extract your 2D lines - and with that qualification I can modify it to write shapefiles.
Basically, you will start R, change the working directory to that with your file (or directory you want to write the output to) via /File/Change dir/, copy and paste the code above in the console (having edited "clipboard" to be the surpace file name/path), and that's it.
BTW, we could script this in Manifold, and I could be convinced to follow that route too. ;) There was an example script on the Free Stuff page that showed how to use a similar text format for lines and areas, and script its IO with Manifold. that could be a good place to start.
I've almost got it actually. I saw an unrelated topic on linked drawings and it seems to do what I need. Procedure is 1. Import the str file as a table. 2. Delete the first line (might not be necessary), Name the columns of data. 3. Create a linked drawing from the table, using string as the LineID.
This gives me almost what I want, except that it is joining together a whole lot of lines that are should be separate, but have the same LineID. They are separated in the table by a 0,0,0 line. According to the help topic Linked Drawings from Geocoded Tables this should split them into separate lines, as there will be a single point with lineID/string of 0 between the sections of lines, but it is not being split for me.
I don't actually work with these files and the only information I have on the file format is that provided by mikedufty in the original posting above. Looks like the line endings in his example did not make it onto the new GeoReference forum - I will repost below. The code was based upon my understanding of Mike's requirement and may not be correct (haven't heard back from Mike).
Try the scripts in the attached project. See the Comments component named "Script Descriptions" for an overview of each program (Surpac_Import_ObjectSet is basically the same script as posted above but with a few more checks... perhaps you will not get the error).
Not sure if this will help Mike, but you do have a status bar display of the cursor line and character position (does not show 1,1 when you open the script but will update as the cursor is moved elsewhere). Also, if you just want to get to a specific line, the Edit GoTo (Ctrl+G) menu can be used.
I'm attaching a final project containing three import scripts. A few minor errors in the original posted project (t56461.16#56800) have been fixed. A couple of areas were tweaked to get a bit better performance. Again, see the "Script Descriptions" comments component for an overview.
All very nicely documented too, I can throw away the commented version of your last script I had saved for future use. I've tested it on the larger contour plan that generated an error on the previous script and it worked nicely here. 64 seconds to process on the 2nodelinespoints version (6396 line segments generated). Now I can convert surpac no doubt everyone will stop sending me surpac and send the format I ask for.
The only living and upto date Geological Modelling software available for Crossover soft. Ive tried others, Micromine, Datamine, Minesight, Maptek Vulcan, none of these works or even install. Mining Industry should be very happy this one actually works.
Note: Linux Crossover enjoys vanilla Surpac the only bug ive seen is the lower window editing sizing it just stuck like that. the rest works like a charm.
Mac Crossover is not so good, it seems the Graphics workspace overlaps everything, menus will be clipped if it overlaps the GUI see the Mac Screenshot, ive tried every graphics settings you could tweak. nothing works. if only this can be fixed a lot of Geologists and Mining Engineers who are Mac Users in the Mining Industry would be very happy.
by running surpac in safe mode or Software render(disabling Opengl, and Directx driver), the menus and right click menu are no longer clipped, runs really slow but is usable, extremely slow when your data is getting bigger and bigger. according to my tests all functions running fine like you are using it in windows.
I'm setting up a Web-GIS using ArcGIS for Server Workgroup Standard. I'm now trying to add a database server in ArcCatalog, however, I receive the error "Register Database Server. Cannot connect to the database server. Failed to connect to Database Server.".
So far a virtual machine (VM) has been set up, on which the SQL Server Express 2014 has been installed, authorized and enabledfor geodatabase storage. The Firewall on the VM has been changed to have port 1433 and 1434 open. Furthermore, in SQL Server Configuration Manager the TCP/IP has been enabled, IPALL set to port 1433 and the Dynamic option is left blank. Both the SQLServer and SQLBrowseris running. Also, the SQL server client (I've checked that it's the right version) has been installed on the client where ArcGIS desktop is installed.
If SSMS is on the server machine, it ArcCatalog as well? Or, are you trying to connect from another machine? If the latter, the fact that SSMS can connect doesn't give the full picture because you haven't established the client can properly communicate the server.
From what you describe so far, and the error message, is the VM hosting SQLExpress on the same Windows domain as the client machines trying to connect to it? The error message indicates there may be separate domains involved, and there is not a trust established between the machines to allow Windows authentication to work.
Is SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) on the server machine or on your local client? This may seem odd, but what is your instance name? Also, in SSMS are you using Windows Authentication or SQL Server Authentication?
I've also noticed that the connection attempts does not appear in the SSMS log when I'm trying to connect using "\", however if I use the IPv4 instead of hostname i.e. "\" a "login failed-message" appears in both the SSMS log and in Server manager. The error in the SSMS log says "the login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication".
Edit: The VM belonged to a Workgroup, changing it to the same domain as the client (and the server) resolved the issue. Although the status of the database server in ArcCatalog is "unknown" I'm now able to add geodatabases and add data to those. Thanks again!
I have my SQL Express loaded on my local machine, but it should work on a VM machine also. Make sure you are connecting thru the Database Servers connection and not the Database Connections in Catalog. Mine appears like this, with a successful connection.
Thanks for your reply! I don't think there's a compatibility issue. As I recall it we are using ArcGIS desktop 10.3.1 (I'm sure it's not an earlier version). The express edition is Microsoft SQL Server 2014 64-bit.
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This download facility is designed for both existing and prospective users who would like to download and install SURPAC. Prospective users who would like to evaluate SURPAC Software for a period of up to 30 days may use this facility to do so.
Existing SURPAC users may make use of this facility to reinstall SURPAC Software in cases where their original SURPAC installation CDs are lost, damaged or out of date for the current Windows operating system. Existing registered SURPAC users wishing to make use of this download and installation facility must have a valid SURPAC Software Maintenance Contract (SMC), failing which a Security Access Code will not be issued.
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