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Table Of Contents
You can analyze drawing topologies in the following ways:
Use this method...To do this...
Perform a shortest path trace (page 1326)Calculate the shortest path between two
points in a drawing or determine the op-
timal route based on values of resistance
and direction.
Perform a best route analysis (page 1330)Calculate the best route from a starting
point in the drawing to one or more visit
points, and back to the starting point.
Perform a flood trace (page 1334)Determine how many links and nodes can
be traveled before the accumulated resist-
ance exceeds the specified maximum res-
istance.
Overlay two topologies (page 843)Compare two existing topologies and keep
only common geometry, remove common
geometry, or combine geometry in a spe-
cified way.
Dissolve a topology (page 1343)Create a new topology by combining
polygons that share the same data value
in a specified field.
Buffer a topology (page 1347)Identify objects within a specified offset of
elements in node, network, and polygon
topologies.
Query a topology (page 1353)Retrieve a loaded topology and its associ-
ated data from the current drawing or an
attached drawing, or query part of a topo-
logy in a source drawing and work on that
part of a topology without having to re-
trieve all its objects.
Save a temporary topology (page 1354)Save back the temporary information re-
trieved by a topology query to the draw-
ings from which it was queried.
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