| Description | Qty | Price | Total |
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| LSS Elite 12 month contract | 1 | £750.00 | £900.00 |
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We owe a huge debt of gratitude to our many Beta testers who, over the past year or more, have been downloading, testing, breaking and commenting upon the pre-release version of what has now become LSS v9.90. It's user comments and testing which help make LSS a reliable program, so we are grateful for all the comments we have received.
That means that we've now suspended our Beta testing while we regroup and plan our next strategy, but don't think that we're resting on our laurels. No chance. So, if you have any coments on LSS v9.90 or indeed have any ideas for what you'd like to see in a future product then please do let us know. Every suggestion is logged, commented upon and, if possible, implemented.
And if you're not familiar with the type of things we've squeezed into LSS v9.90, here's a summary of the main additions.
Instead of clicking individual observations along a string you can now choose a new Mode function called ‘Whole String’ in which you can move the cursor close to a link and it will highlight the entire string. It can be used in ANY command in which string mode is applicable, so that includes all the design commands, edit link, CAD-Pro, remove observation, level text editing, query distance and more. It should greatly reduce processing and design time.
Slope arrows are a useful way to show the general shape of a terrain and can also be useful when designing drainage. The problem comes when the triangles in the DTM are so small that the arrows just end up overwriting each other and you end up with a mess. It’s now possible, though an option in ‘Configure / Hardware & System / Display’, to set the size of the arrows and also determine the maximum number of adjacent triangle sides any arrow is permitted to cross before being turned off. What’s more, the Plot and export to DXF commands will honour the slope arrow settings and current screen views. Detail: The PDF and ADF command ‘Slope’ field 3 now defaults to ‘Display’. If you do not want this to be the default then please edit this field with your nominated arrow length in cm.
The idea has always been that a loadfile containing a building elevation - even if it also includes non-elevation data such as topographical detail, or which may require the user to adjust a traverse before processing the elevation - should be loaded just once and the elevation processed immediately or not at all. Following user comment and suggestion it is now possible, though a new command ‘Input / Extract Elevation’, to reload a file containing elevation observations, which may already have been processed, but on the first occasion the elevation was ignored.
It’s always been a frustration that when you’re creating an isopachyte model from two very complex surveys containing lots of links and breaks of slope that where links cross in plan LSS didn’t generate a new observation at the intersection. This has now been implemented, so the Output Level Difference command should produce the most robust isopachyte model possible.
It’s now possible to send any LSS report or plot to an Acrobat PDF. We hope that this facility will help those users who don’t have any software to create PDFs. The facility is very powerful in that you can leave the file open and just keep adding more reports and/or plots, each of which can be on a different page size, from A4 right up to A0.
Over displaying other surveys is a powerful tool in LSS. This facility has now been extended further to permit most commands within LSS to snap onto data from these other surveys. So, when performing transformation for example, the stations in an overdisplayed survey may be snapped onto. You can also query distances between observations in different surveys. Go into ‘Display / Overdisplay Survey’ for all the options.
Great strides have taken place in the field of Machine Control and we have enhanced the interface with LSS in this Beta version. By working closely with the leading manufacturers and dealers of this equipment it is now possible to export a wide range of data through the LandXML DTM options in 'Export / Onboard Instrument DTM'.
We introduced surface feature heights and depths many years ago to assist with the calculation of formation volumes and to enhance 3D views. Then, a couple of years ago we introduced the command 'Output / Surface Boundaries' to define the edges of heighted surfaces for export to machine control (where different material thicknesses abut each other). What has been missing though has beenVertical or perpendicular? the ability to create a model representing the perpendicular thickness / height of something, but that's what we've now done in 'Output / Survey'. Imagine a 1:1 slope with a material 1m thick lying on top of it. The 1m thickness is measured perpendicular to the 1:1 slope, but measured vertically it's actually 1.414m. So, while it was possible to make these adjustments to the surface parameters in the legend, where the slope changed, it was necessary to create a new surface feature. All in all, this was inconvenient. So, what we've now done is added an option in 'Output / Survey' to generate points at the perpendicular depth / height of a user selection of surface features. However, you need to be aware of what heppens at the edge of surfaces or where different ones abut. So, that's why for the time being, if you choose this command you'll get a dialogue reminding you that you should use 'Output / Surface Boundaries' beforehand so you'll get the correct result.
Prior to v9.80 and before we had the ability to select multiple features in some of the dialogues you could type in ‘All’ if you wanted everything. But, since we introduced multiple selection in v9.80 ‘All’ didn’t mean what it used to. It was a bit like going into a green grocers and asking for everything in the shop, but instead of 'all' meaning everything, it actually meant every current item in stock, so if the stock changed, the word 'all' didn't mean all of the current stock. From this version of LSS 'all' means 'everything'. Subtle, we know, but an important distinction.
And we’ve also added a ‘wildcard’ selection capability which means that if you wanted to pick all link features which began with the letter T or B you would simply enter ‘T*’ or ‘B*’, rather than having to select them manually. You can also list codes, separated by a comma, such as ‘TB,BB,F,T*’.
And just to help you understand how all the new LSS developments can help you we've re-recorded every tutorial. You should be seeing an LSS installation and tutorial DVD arrive in the post during late Feb, early March, but if one doesn't arrive, or you need more copies to hand out to colleagues then please give us a call. In the meantime you can view the tutorials by visiting Tutorials
