Location Groups are created and managed in OpenGround Cloud. They are a means of collating collections of related boreholes together, for instance they could be used to represent different phrases of drilling or different areas of the site.

Their big advantage is that it allows the control of boreholes to be modelled in AutoCAD Civil 3D. If you had a very large site, the use of location groups will allow you to concentrate on precisely the area of the model you wish to without the overhead of having to load in all of the projects boreholes, it also helps to optimise performance.

The groups command is used to control which groups display after the drawing has been connected to a project. When groups are included or excluded the drawing data, boreholes, sur-faces and even profiles are updated to reflect the new selected groups.

Location Groups - Command: HBSI_LocationGroups

From the OpenGround Cloud ribbon click Groups to display the dialog box.

Use the Location groups to specify which OpenGround Cloud location groups should be included or excluded from the current AutoCAD drawing.

Toggle Include ON to activate a Location Group, the borehole locations associated to the Location Group will be created and made active when Save is pressed. Toggle Include OFF has the opposite effect with the associated boreholes being removed from the drawing. In both cases any strata surfaces and geotechnical profiles will also be updated to reflect the changes. Note the Manage Profiles command may need to be used to rebuild the profiles

Save: Saves the settings and closes the dialog box, the drawing will be updated to reflect changes.