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Application Layer - Options

Use this dialog to configure various options and settings for an application layer.

Where do I find the dialog?

  1. Select application layer (GMI) in vertical list field
  2. Right-click and select Properties (or double-click)
  3. Select the Options tab

Passive layer

Often you want to make a layer more "passive", for example it is not always appropriate to have all points in contour lines active for snapping. With the checkbox Passive layer you solve this problem. You will then not be able to snap or select objects in plan and 3D view. Furthermore, the object list will be empty except for information that the layer is passive.

Note also that the option will be useful for application layers with thousands of objects. By setting an application layer passive, the data is treated as one object which in turn gives better performance in OpenGL.

Find connections between lines and polygons

This option is mainly used when exporting FKB data at SOSI level 4, i.e. data that contains surfaces, for example road, property and planning data.

Initially, lines are exported to .LINJE and polygons to .FLATE in the SOSI file. According to the SOSI standard, surfaces have connections to line objects that determine the geometry of the surface. During export, each surface will therefore have a line object created that the surface refers to.

However, if you check Find connections between lines and polygons, the program will first search through existing line objects in the application layer and check if these coincide with the polygon object. If such connections are found, the program will use these and not create new lines during export. Then you get correct files at SOSI level 4. Layers that have this option checked get a red polygon symbol in the application layer list.

Use as title field drawing

In some cases you draw the title field in an application layer, for example for zoning plans and documentation of surveyed data. Then you must, among other things, turn off Use project origin and Show area with color, as well as set symbol scale=100 under drawing settings. By checking Use as title field drawing, these settings will be set automatically if you use the application layer as a template on a later occasion.

With this option you can link an attribute or property in the application layer to DDS-CAD drawing layer. The property is linked to drawing layer of type Building.

The option is especially useful for data imported from 3D DWG. By selecting the property Layer you can work with the same layer structure as in the DWG file. You can then use DDS-CAD's function to turn off/on display of these layers. Note that data that is turned off with DDS-CAD's function becomes gray in the horizontal list field for application layers. Advanced section in Gemini profile generator will also use this layer division, as well as DDS-CAD's export function which you find on the File menu.

Note that you can link multiple attributes to a drawing layer, and then the combination of these will form the layer name. Press the Advanced button to define this.

Use separate drawing layer (type Building) for annotations

The option places the annotations in the application layer on a separate drawing layer with postfix _Label. Only available when Link attributes to drawing layer (type Building) is also checked.

Mark breakpoints in lines and polygons

With this option you get marked points in line and polygon objects in plan and 3D view.

This is for example useful to have on when you edit surveyed data.

Marking of breakpoints

Allow grips editing of triangle net in 3D

With this option you can edit triangle net with grips in 3D. You can only work with one triangle net at a time. You activate grips in the usual way via the status line. You then get grips on the 1000 nearest points around the sight line (focal point). In addition, the eye point must be closer than 50 meters. The point selection is dynamic and will change when you move in the model.

For example, this possibility can come in handy after a 3D triangulation. Most people have probably experienced that the model is almost exactly as they want it, but that they just should have moved some triangles.

In the example we snap the grip point to another point in the point cloud

Users must make a conscious choice to allow grips editing of triangle net. This is done so that you do not accidentally destroy the triangle net.

Use pen table type

You can select which type in the pen table should be active in the application layer.

For example, you can select type Diverse which among other things contains all DWG pens. This type is for example standard for the DWG template.

Example of pen selection

Set triangle net material by pen color

With this option, triangle net will automatically get a material with the same color as the selected pen. The material selection under editing of presentation rule is deactivated with this setting active.

The option can for example be useful when presenting difference models

Inherit attribute values from selected object when manually creating new objects

You can control whether you want to inherit properties or not when you create new application layer objects (point, line, text, polygon).

It works as follows:

  • If inheritance is deactivated, you never inherit
  • If inheritance is activated, you inherit from the selected object (or do not inherit if nothing is selected)

The selected object must be in the same application layer and be of the same type as those being created.

Number of decimals

Here you can determine how many decimals you want to display for north, east, height, angle, distance, area, volume and various other numbers in the object list.

The decimal settings are used for the object lists. Note that when copying to Excel we temporarily set all decimals to 6 for the best possible accuracy.