alastairgott
Well-known member
Well Covid has put a complete halt to any idea of teaching the masses of SUSS how to survey in the next couple of months, not least cos I haven't seen many of them recently.
Well SUSS, sorry there's no escape, here comes a lesson in learning Therion.
Firstly, the two things you will need.
1) Download Therion: https://therion.speleo.sk/download.php
2) Download Sumatra PDF: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/download-free-pdf-viewer.html
First Hurdle, why do I need a new PDF reader?
In short, you don't but you will be regenerating a PDF a lot while you're fine tuning your visuals. PDF's are viewed by most PDF viewers as being unchangeable documents.
Sumatra works differently if you overwrite a pdf document it just doesn't care and will regenerate it live, however other PDF viewers will lock out any new changes by keeping the document locked from being overwritten.
We will concentrate on the section beyond the sewer first. This will need entering into the viewing pane, the easiest thing I can do is to create a file just to get you started...
I've cheated a bit, so hope Q/Peg/Badlad don't find out... WinnatsBeyond.zip.pdf is actually a .zip file not a pdf, so download it and remove the .pdf bit of the filename and then unzip the file, hopefully the three files you will need should be there.
If you immediately open the file "Winbeysewer.thconfig" this should open up therion, and you should be able to click the Gear button, and it will generate the PDF below, clearly there is work to do!
Next "lesson" will be drawing walls and joining them.
Well SUSS, sorry there's no escape, here comes a lesson in learning Therion.
Firstly, the two things you will need.
1) Download Therion: https://therion.speleo.sk/download.php
2) Download Sumatra PDF: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/download-free-pdf-viewer.html
First Hurdle, why do I need a new PDF reader?
In short, you don't but you will be regenerating a PDF a lot while you're fine tuning your visuals. PDF's are viewed by most PDF viewers as being unchangeable documents.
Sumatra works differently if you overwrite a pdf document it just doesn't care and will regenerate it live, however other PDF viewers will lock out any new changes by keeping the document locked from being overwritten.
We will concentrate on the section beyond the sewer first. This will need entering into the viewing pane, the easiest thing I can do is to create a file just to get you started...
I've cheated a bit, so hope Q/Peg/Badlad don't find out... WinnatsBeyond.zip.pdf is actually a .zip file not a pdf, so download it and remove the .pdf bit of the filename and then unzip the file, hopefully the three files you will need should be there.
If you immediately open the file "Winbeysewer.thconfig" this should open up therion, and you should be able to click the Gear button, and it will generate the PDF below, clearly there is work to do!
Next "lesson" will be drawing walls and joining them.