Wicked Cool Stuff
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 02/16/07 by Anthony Governanti Plans Production is here!
- So there are several other bloggers out there already talking about some of the new cool features in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008, and I didn't want to be one of the last ones.
Although its been a source of internal strife lately, I'm going to proactively discuss some features here today, mainly the new Plans Production tools in the upcoming AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008.
But I'm not just going to tell you about them, I'm going to show you. This way I can at least be the first to have a video on the new features :-)
Here you'll see the two main components to generating sheets automatically in Civil 3D 2008 - Creating View Frames, and Creating Sheets.
Creating View Frames
In order to setup how our plans will be laid out, we have a concept of a view frame. This frame is the object that ultimately will size the Plan viewport on a sheet, as well as determines the location for Matchlines between each sheet.
A nice usability improvement is that we have added wizards to help with this process. The first one walks us through the setup of the view frames, including the template to use for the sheets (so it can determine the size of the frames), the styles used for the frames and matchilines, as well as the label styles used, and some criteria on laying out the geometry. As you see in the video, once the frames are laid out, you can make adjustments with intelligent grips that will keep them attached to the alignment.
Create Sheets
Once the frames are where you like, you can create the sheets from them. You can see that we have three options for creation; plan only, plan and profile, and profile only. The wizard again steps you through all the options for creating the sheets, and the end result is a set of plans that have 90-95% of the drafting completed for you. Now that is Wicked Cool.
Till next time,
Cheers,
AG
