Options

This type is selected by default.

Note: This type cannot be selected if the design is assigned to GCS machines.

Select this to specify only a surface and an optional clipping boundary for the model.

Note: If the surface used in your design model is clipped by a boundary, all breaklines in the surface will appear as unnamed features when the surface is viewed in SCS. If the surface in your design model does not contain a boundary, the breakline names will appear in SCS.

Select this to specify one or more alignments for the model.

Note: This type cannot be selected if the design is assigned to machines. The GCS exporter does not support alignments.
Note: The alignment model can be made from 3D alignments defined by a HAL and a VAL, and 2D alignments defined by a HAL alone (if either no VAL exists or more than one VAL exists). This will enable field crews to stake the alignments, or others generated on-the-fly in relation to them, based on a combination of horizontal offset, vertical offset, and cross-slope in SCS.

Select this to specify a surface, optional boundary, and one or more alignments for the model.

Note: For a road surface model, the alignment and surface you select must be coincident.
Note: If the design is assigned to GCS machines, only one alignment can be selected. You can export named sub-alignments to GCS machines, enabling you to see a corridor's named cross-section nodes in GCS900.
Note: Two settings control how surface cross-sections are generated and displayed in this software. These settings are not available in GCS900. Therefore, when a road surface is exported to GCS900, the cross-sections in the field software may be different than those in this office software. For a detailed explanation of the difference and its ramifications on grading a road, please visit the Business Center - HCE Support web page at: http://www.trimble.com/tbc-hce_ts.asp?Nav=Collection-51339

Select this to pick 3D lines for the model.

For details on the objects you can include, see Export GCS Machine Job Site Design Files.

Note: This type cannot be selected if the design is assigned to SCS site controllers. For machines, 3D linework is typically used for digging trenches with an excavator or guiding a grader in grading a road using a simple cross-slope.