Trimble Business Center Zoom To Point

[Odon Irving]

Ive had problems viewing a Plan View tab after I load up a CAD File (see link). The 3D view seems to still work fine but the Plan View snaps to (0,0), or close to it, and I can no longer Pan or Zoom. I've tried Zoom Extents and centering the view on a loaded point but nothing seems to work. Then it started locking up going to Not Responding in the task manager window. It is only using 3% of my CPU and about 60%-70% of my RAM. I've recently updated my video driver too.

If you load the file called E0622701 etc. and look at the coordinates of the drawing after import, you will see that there are some ridiculously large coordinates in the file. If you open the Selection Explorer and look at the list of objects that are listed for the imported file, you will also see that the first few items in the list have some ridiculous elevation values (positive and negative values in the Gazillions). This is the problem with the file.

So what I do is scroll down the list in the selection explorer until I find the Text or Point Objects and then take a look at the coordinates of those and then do a Zoom Precise to one of those coordinates and then add 10,10 N and E of the item to generate a 10x10 window on the data that is good. Then I zoom out from there until I get all of the drawing data that is "Good Coordinates" on screen. Now do a CTRL A to select all and the hold the CTRL key down and deselect the good data and then CTRL D to delete the data that is out in Autodesk Hyperspace / Galaxy somewhere ....

Now you need to determine if there is any 3D objects in the file that you want to retain the Elevations on - and if everything is either 0 or in the Stratosphere or in Hades then you can simply change elevation on all data to undefined. If there is good 3D data in the file that you want to keep then you should do an advanced select on all data in Hades ( Anything below 0) or in the Stratosphere (anything above the max elevation for the project - if you find a contour or spot elevation - just add 1000 to that and that will be good enough), and change the elevation on those to Undefined to bring it back into the real world and then you should be god to go.

I did this - it took a couple of minutes but there is life in this DWG and once you fix the crazy coordinates it should work just fine. Autodesk Software must know that people don't work in those places so they must have some smarts that excludes those values and assumes they are 0 - why they don't just have an undefined value or use 0 I will never understand ....

This would be a useful enhancement. Related to this I use the Center function quite often to find and zoom into a point of interest in a large data set which is really useful. It's great that a selected point is also selected in other View Panes such as the Point Spreadsheet. However having another Pane open disables the Center function working, which is a bit of a.... pain.

Having multiple view open doesn't effect the "center" command. The command uses the "active" view to decide which view gets "centered". If a non graphical view (like alignment editor) is the active view, the command is disabled.

On a similar note we've had a customer request today to enable the Center function to operate in a way with non-graphical data views like the Point Spreadsheet and the Project Explorer. So for example if you select a point in a 3D View and choose center (or find or some other terminology) to query it further, then the point's entry in any open spreadsheets and/or the Project Explorer is scrolled to.

Take a look at this video Preview of a new "Lock Views TML" created by the TML Team at RPS. Let me know if you think that this solves the problem you guys are asking to be solved. This will be released next month as a part of a major release of TMLs from RPS in May.

I fed this one back to the TBC Dev team for consideration as we already highlight the line in the spreadsheet but don't center it on screen in the spreadsheet view - I hope that they can solve this one also for you.

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I learned from Ben that while there were other very respectable players in the survey instrumentation market, including Leica Geosystems, Topcon, and Sokkia, several surveyors and others had encouraged him to try to focus on Trimble as a first choice.

Their reasoning was that Trimble, starting from scratch, had done a great job taking GPS technology into the survey market. In the big picture, GPS was totally unlike any other technology that had previously been used for surveying. It had no optics, no angle encoders, no electronic distance measurement elements. It was essentially a radio receiving signals from satellites and Trimble had very successfully engineered it into survey solutions, complete with office software and accessories, with a full organization to market it and support it globally.

Ben felt that an entrepreneurial Silicon Valley company like Trimble, that had so successfully taken such a non-traditional technology like GPS into the survey market, would be a natural candidate to explore as a potential strategic partner for his very non-traditional 3D laser scanning technology. Another plus for Trimble was simply location. Cyra at the time was headquartered in Orinda, California, a suburban community also in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ben lived in Orinda and his company had rented space in a small, commercial office building not far from his home. Trimble was just a drive away.

The initial take inside was that this fellow, Ben, was very enthusiastic about his new technology, but wanted a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before he would tell us (or anyone) much about it. From a business standpoint, my sense was that Ben was unusually protective, requiring an NDA so early in the discussion. But Ben had envisioned great potential for his new technology, and he stood firmly behind his grand vision and his protective posture.

The scanner emitted a green laser. As laser pulses hit a surface, you could easily see green dots on the surface. The scanner started scanning a sequence of vertical columns, steadily moving from one column to the next column, from left to right across the wall and dartboard.

I saw the straight-on geometry of the wall and dartboard gradually emerge on the laptop display. The guy working the laptop then used his mouse to move the view of the emerging point cloud in 3D and zoom in on the displayed scan points.

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