Actions#

The most common tasks will be available through Action buttons, performing various tasks. There are multiple actions that can be attached to the Action bar for quick access. Here you can find descriptions of all of them. If you wish to edit the Action bar, read more in the View layout editor chapter.

Plane reference#

This action enables and disables a plane for easy height referencing. The plane can be edited to any arbitrary height and also include a slope in any direction. When first enabling the plane button, a plane is created at the height of the tool point. This height is remembered and when disabling the plane and enabling it again it will appear on the same height. Anytime the plane is enabled it will show a notification. Pressing this opens a popup window where the plane can be edited. Here the height can be set and a height offset can be applied. The height can also be set by pressing the tool point button. This will set the height to the current height of the tool point.

The absolute height is set in the Height field. To use height offset in combination with the height, one can edit the Offset field.

In the Slope field the forward inclination of the plane can be set. A positive inclination will create an uphill plane in the direction of the current tool point orientation. The Angle field adjusts the plane's inclination uphill to the right of the tool point.

Add point#

This action adds a new point to the project located at the current position of the tool point. Most commonly this is used to log as-built heights. When adding a new point, a notification tells you about the name of the new point along with the layer that it was added underneath.

To edit the point, this notification can be pressed and the point edit popup will be shown. Here the Name field allows changing the name of the point. In the Layer field you can select what layer this point should be located underneath.

If the position needs modification, this is also allowed with the X, Y and Z fields.

Finally press the button for Apply to apply the changes to the point, or press the delete button to discard the added point.

Lock reference#

These buttons lock either the current horizontal or vertical reference. Locking the current reference means no longer automatically referencing the closest object. Instead you can be sure that only the locked reference object will be referenced, regardless of how far away from the tool point it is from the object.

If the button is greyed out, it means that there is currently no reference to lock for this axis. This could mean the tool point is too far away from any referenceable object or that the referencing of this axis is disabled.

Pressing the button will lock the currently referenced object and show this by outlining the button. There is also a lock symbol visible in the reference objects widget. Pressing the button again will unlock the locked reference.

Change active tool point#

Use this action button to change what tool point to use for references. We call this the active tool point.

The icon on the button indicates which tool point is currently active with an arrow. The active tool point can also be seen in any of the machine views as a surveying pin pointing out the location of the active tool point.

Pressing this button cycles between the available tool points and will update the visualized tool point and the icon of the button.

Height offset#

This button is used to apply a vertical height offset to the current vertically referenced object.

Pressing this button will present a popup window, if this reference was not already offset once before, where the offset can be defined. The offset can be set with the Absolute height field if the desired absolute height is known. Otherwise the Offset field sets a relative offset to the object.

Finally press apply to close the popup and use the offset or press the X button in the top corner to close and discard the offset.

All subsequent times the offset is enabled for this object, the popup will not appear and instead apply the previously used offset. If one wishes to edit the offset, there is a notification indicating that the offset was enabled. Pressing this notification brings up the popup and the offset can be edited like before.

To see if an offset is applied and enabled, the button will be outlined when the current vertical reference has a height offset enabled. Press the offset button again to disable the offset.

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