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- posted 08/20/07 by Ove Cervin Copying an Assembly
- Hi everyone,
After a long vacation I'm back again and now I'm really looking forward to create a new presentation for our customers in C3D. I have so many ideas but so little time... ;-) Luckily things are quite fast to create in C3D...
I'm also working on a real project for roundabouts that's quite interesting. Always good to keep up with a proper project - not only demonstrations...
Anyway - after this summer we have now our hands on SP1 for C3D and I guess many of you have installed it.
One thing that I have noticed and heard is the occasional problems with "How to copy an Assembly".
If you have an Assembly on screen (containing parts of several Subassemblys) you might have noticed that these get's "arrayed" or "splitted up" if you copy them using "Copy" command?
The same happens if you drag a complete Assembly from the "Tool palette".
To get this properly done - here's the way to do it:
Save the complete Assembly in the Tool palette (as a Block) and make sure you have NOT marked "Explode" under Properties for that one.
If you explode it once inserted in the drawing it stays just fine.
If you're using "Copy". Make sure you select the Assembly marker when selecting. Not a "Window crossing" etc.
I have heard (but not yet checked) that the SA has to be created after SP1 was installed to behave like this.
I'll check that and get back here with an update.
Hope it helps someone ;-)
Cheers / Ove C
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Team Building!
Posted 08/20/07 by Jack Strongitharm
This week we had a gathering of the UK Technical AEs for Civil 3D.
Also with a Go Karting session, my interpretation of Team Building! or just plain old fun.
Paul Lloyd Smith of CADAssist was fastest, but at the cost of fracturing Trevor Claytons rib by bumping him of the track!. Bad lad!
My style was drifting, as my rear assisted in this way.
We had our usual techy brainstorm and looking at how to achieve certain results, Some of which have been already posted on this blog.
However some new things
Widening and layby design, use of offsets and temporary corridor surfaces
Advanced cross section labelling and displays
Adding channel levels to a profile
I will post these ideas here in the coming posts.
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Reusable Surface Levelling and the Big 50
Posted 08/14/07 by Jack Strongitharm
No not age just yet but this is the 50th edition of this blog site!
A big thank you to everyone who has been reading with us since the start of the year and absorbing the information that Ove and myself have been posting.
Also a big thank you to Chris Berends for his initial participation and creation of the concept with me over a glass of red wine !
Here's to the next 50 !! Cheers
As I have shown in earlier posts you can show the areas of cut and fill using a Tin Volume Surface and applying two ranges and specify levels for colour shades.
Using the same technique you can show a range of dig and or fill layers, just levels for depths and fills etc.
So wouldn’t it be nice if you could save those ranges to use again on the next job?
Well now you can!!
A developer in Germany called Udo Huebner has created a LISP routine that does the trick.
To get hold of this use the link below into the Community Site to access the file from the Utilities section of the site.
Download the Utility
To operate the tool use the following commands
TransferElevations, ExportElevations and ImportElevations
Export
Changed the ranges and then import from the file
Result
Text file editing
100mm Layers to the first 1m and then beyond
This will start to make your minds tick, any of you who deal with volumes day to day
Jack Strongitharm
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Visualisation and Beyond
Posted 08/10/07 by Jack Strongitharm
This week I have been with a long time developer of 3D Studio this week working on a Visualisation Seminar we are setting up for October in Holland.
(Bruce Harfield (3am Solutions), Peter Ingels (Prodesk) and myself)
Bruce Harfield of 3am Solutions, has an application for 3D Studio called Dynamite VSP, which can dynamically create visualisations to a very high level from 3D model data.
Later this year, Dynamite VSP will support the AutoCAD Civil 3D objects models to be able to create bridges, roadmarkings, object placement and of course the ground and corridor surfaces. However when it comes to a design change all you need to do is a quick export out of Civil and Dynamite can rerun the visualisation settings and positioning which in turn will automatically bring the visualisation upto date.
Recent developments also have brought in true traffic simulations from traffic design models to fill and animate the vehicle objects placed in the scene.
The conference will explore the possibilities of AutoCAD Civil 3D and Dynamite VSP working hand in hand with live demonstration by myself and Bruce using this new link and also presentations from existing users and experts in the field.
To register for the event please click the image below.
If you are unable to attend, 3am Solutions will be exhibiting at AU in Las Vegas this year in November.
Please pay them a visit.
Jack Strongitharm
