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- posted 06/05/07 by Daniel Philbrick Siteless Alignments
- Before I get back to Borehole data, I thought I'd bring up something about Sites and Alignments. I'll get back to Borehole data during the next game of the Stanley Cup....
If you have started using Civil 3D 2008 you will notice that there is an Alignments node in the Prospector tree. In the previous release, the Alignments are located within a named Site. The following image shows the Prospector tree with the Alignment collection in Civil 3D 2008.
When you create alignments in ‘08, every alignment creation dialog lets you select "None" for the Site:
We made this change because we found that many users put all the alignments in the default Site 1. This sometimes resulted in undesirable behavior such as parcels being created when the Alignments formed closed areas.
In 2008, this behavior can be avoided by putting the alignments in the "None" Site. If you then need have interaction between Parcels and Alignments, you can select "Move to Site" to move the Alignment object into a Named Site. You can also "Move" alignments to the "None" Site.
If you have an existing drawing with a number of alignments in a named site, you will find a hidden command called RemoveAlignmentsFromSite which will take all the Alignments in a Named Site and Move them to the "None" Site. If you run this command, you will see the following dialog.
This is an unsupported command, but we did want to make it available in case you had a drawing with a number of alignments in a Name Site. Make sure to make a copy of your drawing before running this command!
Dan
User Comments
Dan,
Is this command the same as right clicking on the site and selecting "Move to site" and then selecting the none site?
Posted 6/6/2007 3:25 PM by Jason Stevens
Jason
It is the same, except it will move all the alignments in the selected Site.
Dan
Posted 6/7/2007 6:24 AM by Daniel Philbrick
Dear Sirs,
I didn't found way to post a direct question so I am using the comments.
I am new in Civil 3D, so sometimes I have a problems in work. Please help me (explain) to calculate corridor volume (after creating alignment and making a corridor) and show the result volume in table view.
Thanks in advance!
Posted 8/1/2007 11:29 PM by Diyas Mamyrbayev