Saturday, 1 November 2014

Custom Windows desktop software x64 : TGO report file manipulation

Trimble Geo Office report files contain data that is difficult to use.
Each cross section contains various points.
If you want to draw them as continuous lines then you have to do this by joining points one by one.

My solution...
It is quite easy for an Excel user to get rid of useless data and create a simple text file with PENH data.
With my Civil 3D 2014 custom command PENH2SO the file can be converted to an extended one with station and offset for each point.
Finally this file can give as many files as needed. Every point next to axis is added to a unique file.
L01 for the first left point next to axis for each cross section ordered by ascending station, L02 for the second one...R01 for the first right ones, R02 for the second...X for the axis.
If there is a break then a new file is created, eg L0101,L0102...
From within Civil 3D  using my custom command PENHLOAD each line in seerate file can be drawn.

It does not run from within Civil 3D but from the Windows desktop. The program must be downloaded with the addition of the below following DLL to the same location.

Main program
Required DLL

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