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ESurvey Sections Release Notes

Version 5.60

The latest version of ESurvey Sections, Version 5.60, released on 23-09-2011 is incorporated with extra features and improvements which are listed below:

What is new?

  1. Now ESurvey Sections works with open office. Select Microsoft Excel or Open office and set it as the Default Spread sheet.
  2. Default Layer colours have been changed.
  3. Section Wise Volume Report and Area report can be generated from multiple options.
  4. In Apply Profile, copy and paste can be performed on formation levels from excel.

Alignment

  1. Interval at Curve is introduced, which can be set from the Cross Section Settings.
  2. Settings Related to Curve is moved from Settings->Horizontal Alignment to Configuration in Alignment Screen. Transition type , Terrain, Road type and No. of Lanes etc. can be set in this screen.
  3. After importing a LS line, Section No. will get displayed for the respective Northing and Easting points. We can select and save the sections. Radius, Transition lengths and Speed is set for the selected sections automatically, which can be viewed in Curve Settings screen.
  4. In Curve Settings screen, all the parameters related to Curve can be edited. We can edit the LS lines, enter user defined Radius and also Calculate the Auto Radius.
  5. Temporary lines can be exported from CAD using Export Temp Alignment lines command (EXTL) and can also be imported to fit a curve (End points of temporary alignment line should match with points on main alignment line).
  6. Representation of Horizontal Curve, Transition Lengths and Vertical Curve is changed in LS.
  7. In Settings, Curve details now includes various parameters like Horizontal Intersection point , Apex Distance, Spiral angle extension, Long Tangent, Short Tangent etc. ,which will get display in Curve Table in Plan.

Parallel Lines

  1. Intersect Layer has been introduced.
  2. Start Stop can be applied to the parallel layers.
  3. Along with Partial and End type options a few more options like Extrapolate by, Extrapolate up to, Extend by and Extend up to have been added.
  4. Gradient above or below option can be set for an entity if it is to be displayed when the profile is above or below the applied layer by selecting Join type as Gradient in parallel Layers.

In TopoDraw

  1. In Setting Screen layer can be set automatically, based on Remarks, Elevations and Blocks.
  2. Setting Screen we can group the layers based on Remarks, Elevations and Blocks.

What is improved?

  1. Importing Alignment line, Ground levels and Offset lines can be performed using a single Import screen button for both CAD and Excel.
  2. Now Interpolation option is changed to Cross Section Setting. Interpolation and Alignment of Curve can be done together.
  3. The Summary of the selected Curve No. like Speed, Radius, Transition Lengths IN and OUT, No. of Lanes , approximate SE and Widening are shown in Super Elevation screen.

Version 5.50

This new version of ESurvey Sections, Version 5.50, released on 07-07-2011 is incorporated with extra features and improvements which are listed below:

What is new?

  1. Now E Sections is called as ESurvey Sections
  2. Globalization of the product is made. Different country based regional settings for support has been added.
  3. Product can be installed in any directory.
  4. Introduced Quick Launch of commands and Look up table for all lisp commands.
  5. Now Menu, Ribbon, Help and Quick launch commands can be loaded just by loading a single lisp.

In TopoDraw

  1. Configuration is made simpler by introducing it in the settings screen.
  2. In Configuration screen, only one setting can be made at a time.
  3. Under Configuration screen, drawing preview can be viewed for the configuration made.

In Interpolate

  1. Interpolation is quicker and can work with larger data.
  2. When Interpolated, values will automatically be perpendicular to Cross section Lines.

Now team viewer can be accessed directly via Product, from a short cut under help or using Start-> Program->ESurvey->Team Viewer

What is improved?

  1. Temp path directory can be set in desired directory.
  2. Lock updater will get installed in Common files in C:\Program files\Common files\E survey directory) it can be accessed via Start->Program files -> ESurvey -> Lock Updater.
  3. Now generating drawings using TopoDraw is at least 10 Times faster than earlier version.

Changed concepts

  1. Bulk Edit and Grid Edit is removed.

Changed concepts

  1. Now Menu loading using a separate lisp (menuload.lsp) is dropped. Only by loading ‘LoadESurveySections” Lisp, menu and ribbon can be loaded.
  2. Now Temporary folder need not be c:\Eurvey\Temp. User can specify any directory as temporary directory by setting it using Set Temp Path (Start-> Program->Set Temp Path).
  3. Free utilities and More Lisp concept is dropped from ESurvey Sections. Now all free Utilities and most of the More lisps are available in ESurvey Lisps
  4. ESurvey Sections specific More lisps also gets loaded when “LoadESurveySections” Lisp is loaded. Please run “Quick Command Help” to know the functions available.
  5. ESurvey Quick Sections – Excel Product is now available as ‘ESurvey Sections – Standard’.
  6. Field book shortcut is moved under Tools menu in ESurvey Sections and is available only with ESurvey Sections.

Globalization:

Now Product works with any setting of country in Regional Setting.

  1. List Separator – “,”,(“;”)
  2. Decimal Separator – “.”, (“,”)

Version 3.03

This new version of ESurvey Sections, Version 3.03, released on 24-12-2010 is incorporated with extra features and improvements, which are listed below:

What is new?

  • Works with Bricscad
  • Works with GstarCAD
  • Free Utilities:
    • a) Field Book: Now more options are provided in Field book export
    • b) Traverse: Now traverse correction is made simple with Least Square / Transit / Bowditch / Crandall methods
  • Some minor Bugs are solved

Version 3.02

This new version of ESurvey Sections, Version 3.02, released on 12-08-2010 is incorporated with extra features and improvements. Now ESurvey Sections comes with two additional add-ons: Interpolate and TopoDraw:

What is new?

Topo Draw

  1. Import point data directly within CAD
  2. Easting and Northing can be displayed along with Serial, Elevation, Block and Remark

  3. Directly Import data from within CAD with all the settings

More Lisps

Two more lisps are added

  1. Joining 3D Lines
  2. Incrementing Contour

Utilities

Traverse Correction and Field Book now run only from Utility Menu not from Explorer.

What are the improvements?

      Bugs are solved.
      Many icons changed to maintain uniformity and better look across the software.
      The Ribbons and Menus in CAD rearranged and revised.

What is dropped?

      E Section – E Section Standard Version Dropped
      Removed opening of rarely used Template opening option from Open Template screen to avoid confusion

Version 3.01

This new version of ESurvey Sections, Version 3.01, released on 12-07-2010 is incorporated with extra features and improvements which are listed below:

What is new?

      ESurvey Sections is now made ZW CAD compatible
      ESurvey Sections is now made 64bit compatible so that it can be installed in Windows 7 also.

More Lisps

Traverse correction is included.

What is dropped?

      Edit LS (beta) Removed.
      "Excel Sections" utility within E Section – Removed.

Version 3.00

This new version of ESurvey Sections, Version 3.00, released on 14-02-2010 is incorporated with extra features and improvements, which are listed below:

What is included in Version 3.00?

Now, 6 Lisps are available in More Lisp directory
      1. Align text perpendicular to CS Line
      2. Change Layer of Centre Leves (LS Levels)
      3. Scale Line
      4. Mark Gradients on a line
      5. Project line from CS Line to any particular Section Detail Line
      6. Snap Text to nearest grid Value
Supporting Programs that are included in ESurvey Sections
      1. Bulk Plot
      2. Plot Ready
      3. Field Book
      4. Update Formation: From lines drawn in AutoCAD, Apply profile (Formation levels)
      5. Edit LS (Beta)

Version 2.30

This new version of ESurvey Sections, Version 2.30, released on 01-02-2010 is incorporated with extra features and improvements, which are listed below.

What is included in Version2.30?

Parallel Layer in Master Settings

This option is used to insert an additional parallel layer, which is parallel to a selected layer.

Also the following options entail with this feature.

  1. Distance between parallel layers can be set
  2. End points can be projected vertically, joined or projected with specified gradient
  3. Left half and right half of the selected drawing can be configured individually with the specified gradient on each side

Version 2.20

This new version of ESurvey Sections, Version 2.20, released on 11-01-2010 is incorporated with extra features and improvements, which are listed below:

What is included in Version2.20?

1) For the Join Ends Area Calculation type, the lines will not be joined if the last point of the line is already on any other layer shown in the figure below:

2) New feature called Print formula Calculation is in Master Setting.

Use of this feature
It is similar to print Area Calculation in drawing. But the Area calculation will come with the Formula (indicating values in the formula).

Release Notes for Version 2.10 of ESurvey Sections

This new version of ESurvey Sections, Version 2.10, released on 20-10-2009 is incorporated with extra features and improvements which have been listed below:

What is included in Version2.10?

Combined Area Calculation Report

With this option, the multiple area combination report can be arranged Chainage-wise. i.e. if multiple area calculation types are configured between two layers, then, in the report, all the calculation related to particular Chainage, are grouped together as shown in the figure above.

Configure Proposed Levels with respect to Lowest, Highest or Existing point of Ground Layer

Now, the formation (Proposed) levels can be configured with respect to the highest point, the lowest point or the existing ground layer, unlike in the earlier versions where formation levels got configured with respect to only existing levels.

This is done by adding a specific value to the Minimum/Maximum/Existing point of the Existing Layer as shown in the figure above.

In Multiple Profiles, various profiles can now be positioned with respect to (Reference) base Layers not just Profiles.

While designing multiple profiles, the reference can be set for base layers as well as for Profiles, unlike the earlier version where only the profiles were allowed to be set as a reference.

Help button is included in the Layer Settings Screen to give Layer Allotment information.

This feature describes the distribution of various layers in ESurvey Sections and why layer numbers are allotted and their purposes in the software. This will help the users to comprehend the product into greater depth.

Release Notes for Version 2.0 of ESurvey Sections

This new version of ESurvey Sections is incorporated with lot of features and improvements which have been listed below:

What is included in Version2.0?

Better interface

The interface has been redesigned to avoid navigating to different screens to perform tasks, which are commonly used. All the frequently used features have been made accessible in the preview screen itself.

  1. Quick Launch Tool Bar: - Provides easy access to Reports screen, Layer Manager, Print Screen, and Generating drawing in CAD. It also incorporates functionalities like zooming in/out, refreshing the drawing, etc
  2. Navigation & Settings Tab: - - Previously what used to be known as Datum tab is now Settings Tab. All Sections/Drawing/Layers and Datum settings can be configured in this tab
  3. Applying Profiles/Multiple Profiles (New Feature, Explained later) and Editing Profile Variables have been accommodated in the ESurvey Sections Preview Screen itself for easy accessibility and usage
  4. Section Preview: - Section Preview is now more dynamic and powerful with CAD like zooming ability as well as layerisation with which it is possible to switch on, switch off, Freeze, and rename layers
  5. Tool Bar: - Most frequently used operations have been provided in a tool bar at the top which are used to open templates, import data from Excel, edit data, generate reports, generate and print drawings and also create/apply profiles

  6. All settings in one place:- All the settings: drawing settings or sections settings or even datum settings, are all now done in Master settings menu which can either be accessed directly from Section Preview menu or by choosing the ‘Master Setting’ option under the Main menu
  7. Partial LS to generate drawing only for a portion of LS and LS volume calculations can be done within the summary Tab of LS

Drawing and Plotting

Now, it is possible to scale and print the drawings directly within ESurvey Sections without the need to export it to any other CAD Software. For this, just click Print Sections in the tool bar at the top, select the printer and the drawing is ready for printing.

Customize Drawings: Apply templates, preview it and adjust thESurvey Sections according to the template before printing it or saving it as a drawing file.

  1. Introducing a new behavior method for the two layers considered for area calculation- join ends where it makes the selected layers to meet at ends
  2. Dynamic Area Calculation :- Adjust the layer lines to get the required area.
  3. Area calculations between different profiles:-Get layer wise area/volume report between the multiple layers
  4. Trim Sections :- Trim the extra portion of thESurvey Sections and retain only the portion of section for which the profile is applied
  5. Display Intersections:- Displays the intersection points of the layers selected for area calculation

Profile Management

  1. Multiple Profiles: Apply up to 5 different profiles on a single section enabling it to design complex profiles

  2. Editing Multiple Profile variables: Edit the profiles applied for a few select sections

What is dropped in Version2.0?

Profile Lines : Profile lines has been removed in the new version, as the same complex profiles which was earlier designed using profile lines can now be drawn using multi profile.

Modify LS : In the new edition for ESurvey Sections, the ‘Modify LS’ option present under ‘Apply profile / Edit LS’ has been dropped.

Release 1.0

ESurvey Sections, Version 1.0, released on 23-02-2009 consists of many features that assist greatly for section generation.

Features

Cross Sections and Longitudinal Sections

  • Create Longitudinal / Cross Sections drawings with data in upto 6 layers.
  • Interpolation of unknown points.

Importing and Exporting Data

Import

Import data from Excel. Upto 5 different types of Templates

Import data From FieldBook.

Import data from CAD along alignment or earthwork

Export data to Excel

  • Export data to Excel from ESurvey Sections.
  • Export data to FieldBook
  • Export to CAD

Quantity Calculation

Area/Volume calculation using Trapezoidal and Nett Area methods.

  • Report generation in Excel /CAD
  • Earthwork Computations

Profiles

  • Design Profiles for any shape commonly used in Railways/Roadways/ Irrigation Canal
  • Set conditions while applying profiles (Group)
  • Derive gradient/difference from existing layers, for both LS and CS

  • Print Area calculation report below the drawing

Editing Features

  • Edit Sections either by modifying levels or directly dragging the vertex
  • Modify Longitudinal Section and Modify cross-section
  • Bulk Editing of Layers