Interesting John

With your model as posted I did not get dual tubes with walls off although I
did with walls on.

If you remove all of the point passage-height and point dimensions from your
scrap, then the behaviour of your model seems to match the behaviour I
described.



BTW I added my previous post to the wiki examples page
http://therion.speleo.sk/wiki/doku.php/examples#loch_models_paperless_survey
_plan_scraps_and_lrud



Not able to spend more time on this just now (winter sniffles-back to bed),
but seems like point dimensions and point passage-height changes the
behaviour.



A semi automated way of enabling therion to produce accurate model passage
heights using splay shots would be useful, and it seems like Footlegs
proposal might be convenient (for those of us who don't have to write the
code). 

Bruce



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From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-boun...@speleo.sk] On Behalf
Of John Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2013 7:03 a.m.
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Subject: Re: [Therion] Loch passage tube behaviour



Bruce a very useful article but it differs from my experience in a couple of
ways.



I thought a couple of months ago I would try and produce a reasonable 3d
model of a cave. So I surveyed a short section of passage with more data
than I could possibly normally use. I set stations at 5m intervals and took
8 wall measurements every 1m. This would get me a lot of splays that I could
then use as vertices for a 3d model (if I could find/write some software to
make the model, not done yet)

I could then compare this model with the one Therion produces and see which
extra splays are really needed. 



Unlike your models I seem to get the centreline tube in the middle (mostly)
of the scrap tube. Unfortunately this centreline tube often protrudes
through the scrap tube, ruining the model. How am I getting two tube?  I
have tried various options with walls on/off/auto or commented out, to no
avail.



I also found the Dimensions -value [up, down] useful but it sometimes does
unexpected things.

Passage Height was even worse for this. If a single number was given it
distributed the measurement above and below the centreline. If + - was used
it appeared on the plan but did nothing on the model.



using Therion 5.3.11



This is a work in progress and your mail has come at just the right time



Cheers



John

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