To Edit Figures From the Toolspace

The Figures Editor provides the same editing functionality as the Figure properties list view does in Toolspace, but is more suited for horizontal viewing of a tabulation of this type of data. The benefit of editing figures in the Figures Editor is that you can switch to the SurveyToolspace browse through the data, and then return to the Figures Editor and continue with your edits.

Note: You can use the Survey Database Settings dialog box to set the Direction Type, Angle Unit, Distance/Coordinate Unit that is displayed for the Figures Editor vista.

Tutorial Exercise: Editing a Figure

To view and edit figures

1. In Toolspace, on the Survey tab, do one of the following:
   • To view and edit all figures, right-click the Figures collection Edit Figures to display the Figures Editor.
     Note:

     Click to display a list view for the selected figure.

   • To view and edit a single figure, click the Figures collection to display figures in the list view, where you can edit the figure data.
2. Modify the fields as required by selecting the field and entering or selecting the new value.

   In the Breakline field, select the check box to indicate that the figure will be used as a surface breakline when you run the Create Breakline command.

   For more information, see To Create Breaklines from Figures. When you make a change to any figure data, the entire row is highlighted in bold until the change is saved to the survey database.

3. To edit the values in multiple rows, select the rows, right-click the column heading, click Edit. Enter the new value. The selected row values for the column are updated with the new value.
   Note:

   If no rows are selected, then all rows are updated.

4. To delete figures, click the figure(s) to delete, right-click, and click Delete.

   The figure icon is replaced with and the row is set to read-only.

5. To undo the changes for a single row or multiple rows, select the row(s), right-click, and click Reload or Undelete. To undo all the changes in the vista, click .
6. To apply the changes for a single row or multiple rows, select the row(s), right-click, and click Apply. To apply all changes in the vista, click .
7. Click to close the vista.