When creating a surface it is important to be aware of what data is included in the selection process. An example of this would be selecting data that is on different layers and different elevations a...
All MicroSurvey CAD and Field products allow you to work with surfaces. The two supported formats are *.QSB (a format saved by MicroSurvey CAD Products) and Landxml (a universal format defined by Lan...
All MicroSurvey Products allow for import of surface files. Two formats are supported, see the table below for a summary of capabilities: Product Version Imports Exports Staking Surface Display Volume...
With our CAD programs, if you are receiving drawings from other users, you may see your drawing look like this: This is because of a command call QTEXT. When Quick Text is ON, text is displayed as pla...
If you have elevation values close to sea level (0 elevation) you may notice you have trouble creating a surface. This is because MicroSurvey has a default elevation filter that prevents inclusion of ...
SCALEZ is a good tool to convert any 3D linework to 2D....
The options found under MsModeling > Configuration Settings have a powerful effect on how modeling and volumes routines perform: Changes to these settings normally reset when the program is closed, bu...
If you run the Smooth Contours routine (SMOO command) and you get some contours being smoothed and then the error message saying error: rejected function, try the following: Go to the Settings menu | ...
There is some confusion about which of the two volume calculation methods to use for many jobs.‚ You have the Area Volume and Surface Volume commands, and many use the wrong one when trying to ge...
In the last while, it has come to my attention that some people are losing their Modelling databases because of a misconception about whether or not they have been saved correctly. If you manually pic...