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Dominick Gallegos, Civil 3D Technical Marketing Manager for Autodesk, shares his unique perspective and ideas on the functionality and use of Civil 3D for a range of different project types.
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- posted 11/15/06 by Anthony Governanti Define Traverse Stations from a Figure
- Shameless plug time; this time on the behalf of a co-worker of mine here at the 'Desk. Rob Todd, product designer and our resident Survey expert, has posted a new utility to the content sharing section of the community that is a must have for anyone doing traverse analysis in Civil 3D.
The utility - Define Traverse Stations from Figures allows you too "automate the process of defining a traverse’s station values before performing a traverse analysis in Civil 3D", a tasks that can be fairly cumbersome if your traverse stations aren't sequential.
It's a pretty cool utility that extends the functionality of the traverse analysis tools in Civil 3D. Here are some screen shots.
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Start by Selecting the Network that includes the traverse you are working with.
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Then you can select an existing traverse definition, or create a new one.
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Then you select the figure that represents the traverse loop.
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As you can see, it fills in all the stations from that loop automatically for you. Now all you need to do is enter the initial backsight and the final foresight, and the traverse properties will be filled in for you.
Final traverse properties.
Pretty cool huh?!
Till next time,
Cheers,
AG
User Comments
I didnt know you were a waiter on the weekends
Posted 11/15/2006 11:26 AM by Dana Probert
I have to make ends meet somehow!
AG
Posted 11/15/2006 11:32 AM by Anthony Governanti
Another round for my friends, Please.
And I promise we will behave.
Well.
We'll try.
Posted 11/15/2006 7:30 PM by John Postlewait