Fuzzy alignment of surfaces

You can perform a fuzzy alignment for all network surfaces. Then the points of a surface are moved, within a defined threshold, towards a reference surface. This allows you to remove unwanted overlaps or gaps (Fundamentals: Fuzzy surface alignment).

Note: When importing shapefiles, you can specify whether you want to perform a fuzzy surface alignment (Importing Shapefiles).

1.  From the Edit menu, choose Surfaces > Fuzzy alignment.

The Fuzzy surface alignment window opens.

2.  Make the desired changes.

Element

Description

Surface set column

Selection of surfaces that are edited (Editing surface set).

Tolerance column

Enter a value for the tolerance range. The tolerance range specifies the radius within which the points of a surface may be moved. If you enter 0 for a surface set, it becomes a reference set and is not moved.

Adds an additional surface set.

Deletes the surface set selected.

Note

To select multiple surface sets, hold down the Ctrl key and click the desired entries.

Normalize surfaces after execution

If the option has been selected, the fuzzily aligned surfaces will be also be normalized (Fundamentals: Multi-part surfaces).

Merge all points with identical co-ordinates after execution (all surfaces in network)

If the option has been selected, all points of the fuzzily aligned surfaces with identical co-ordinates will be merged afterwards (Merging all polygon points with identical co-ordinates).

3.  Confirm with OK.

The desired surfaces in the network are aligned.