Manage Themes

The goal of this exercise is to explain to the user the concept of themes and show how to manage them within the Orbit product. The user will be able to create, import and export themes.

Preparations

Reference documentation

Preceding Exercises

Resources

Exercise

Create new themes, import datasets as themes, export theme as .kmz file, explore “Themes Manager”

  1. In “Procedures” > “Administration” > “Asset Inventory”, create a new theme “toronto_point_theme”, with the characteristics: point, CRS: 32617, Attributes: type (Rule: valuelist of point types) and height (Rule: Formula - Measure distance 3D).
  2. Create a new theme: “toronto_area_theme”, with the characteristics: area, CRS: 32617, Attributes: comment (no rule) and area (Rule: Formula - Measure Area XYZ).
  3. Import the datasets “optech_toronto_road_lines.shp” and “optech_toronto_poles.ovf” as themes, save them with the same name.
  4. Export back the “optech_toronto_road_lines” theme as a .kmz file.
  5. In “Manage Themes”, check if the 4 themes related to this exercise are available.

Results