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- posted 01/22/08 by Jack Strongitharm Setting Out? (Stake out) - Part 1
- Had some discussions with a user recently on how best to create setting out (stakeout) from their models.
So this next series of posts I will try to enlighten you to what is possible from the box as standard.
Corridor - Points and tables
So you have this lovely model and want to build it.
Contractor wants levels and coordinates every 10m on a straight and every 2m on curves on the junction.(yes junctions!)
You want to have the setting out information on the drawing.
Step one.
Temporarily adjust your corridor frequency to suit this criteria
Original
Set frequency
Main road adjusted
Junction area adjusted
Step two.
Go to Corridor menu and utilities
Export COGO
COGO Points are created in the point group with your default style
As the points are stored in a point group you can now change the style easy to just show a point number
Change the point style to display what you want or numbers in this case
Step three.
From the Points menu, select tables and select the point label style and also the point group that you saved your points to.
Result is a table for that feature line at the interval required.
Next you may want to have a specific table title so to link it with the feature line
Right click on the table and go to it properties. Copy the original table style with a new name
Click on the table title (POINT DATA) and enter a new table title.
Resulting table now has the new title
Next repeat the export for the kerb return alignments
For the junction area, when you export COGO, remember that the corridor creation is from the kerb return alignments, so the corridor feature line is actually the CROWN. Also here you can see that you can isolate a specific baseline alignment, rather than the whole corridor.
Step four.
Repeat the exercise for all the feature lines you want to create setting out for.
NOTE
This method creates points from your corridor, however these points are static, i.e. if your corridor is adjusted, your points and tables will not be updated
Therefore do this output when you need to and also name groups etc to suit the design state as a reminder.
Hope this helps.
I will show some other methods in future posts.
Jack Strongitharm
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EMEA Gunslinger - Munich
Posted 01/17/08 by Jack Strongitharm
This week in Munich in Germany we have had what we call a Gunslinger for the first time in Europe for Civil 3D.
This is where we get together a number of top users from various countries and also ourselves.
We then spend a number of days looking at the new features in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 and then design with them to test them out.
We had representation from countries such as Poland, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and more.
Also we had the Dave and Dan show(Dave Simeone, Dan Philbrick), Jessica Tar, Dave Blanchette from Autodesk US to guide us through it all.
The aim is to put everything into practice and to ultimately find any problems so that they can be addressed before release.
It has been a great week and we cant wait to discuss what is new to you.
However this will have to wait until March when we can officially release to the public.
It's not that far away.
Enjoying a small beer! (myself and Dan Philbrick)
(Dave Simeone, me, Ian McGregor, Marco Martens and Ove Cervin)
Finally a big thank you to all the users for taking out time for this event and to the companies that they work for.
Jack Strongitharm
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There is another product in there you know!
Posted 01/12/08 by Jack Strongitharm
Happy new year to you all!!
This blog is now one year old now! Thanks to all of you for keeping with us.
There is so much more to cover and we are nearing another version in April.
Myself and Ove are off to Munich ths week testing 2009 along with our other Autodesk AEs and also a number of top Civil 3D users from around Europe.
Anyway, we often dont really cover much on Map even though it is sat there in front of your eyes.
However one of my English colleagues, Greig Richardson, has created a blog site decicated to everything Map and also Mapguide.
Find it here
http://cad2gis.wordpress.com/
Jack Strongitharm
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A few things
Posted 01/09/08 by Ove Cervin
Hello.
The weeks are really running away... I have already a full calender until late April ;-) But I do prefer to have things to do, rather than the other way around...
First I'd like to mention that we have done a minor update to the .lsp regarding how to "Change Elevation" on contours, from Z=0 to a range of Z-values. That lisp had a slight "bug" in the header explaining that it was to "rotate blocks"... which it was NOT intended to. Anyway - I have updated the text in it now.
Here it is, again: Download file
For those of you who have not seen/used this earlier - here's the link to the original post:
http://civilcommunity.autodesk.com/blogs/blog/6/blogpost/7629/
And now - also for our german speaking/reading readers - a totally new version, only for you ;-)
Our german collegues has re-written it for your region and here it is: Automatische Höhenzuweisung - Download
Please enjoy!
Another small thing that I know people have asked about is why the arrows presenting slope/grade doesn't follow scaling in the drawing. Well - sorry, you have to set the length of them under Style. There might be a reason for it - who knows ;-)
Sample below - horrible large arrows on my parking.
Change under Surface Style and Analysis. Set color and length etc.
Gives a nicer look - or at least I think my parking looks more nice...
Until next time - have a nice winter time!
Cheers / Ove -
Online Blocks
Posted 01/03/08 by Ove Cervin
Ohla !
Hope you all had a REALLY GREAT Christmas !!
This will be a short tip on another part from Design Center that I'd like you all to be aware of.
Open up Design Center.
Starting up Design Center - as we did just before Christmas...
Select the last tab - DC Online
Browse down and check what categories you find in the list.
If we select, for example, 3D Architectural - Landscaping, we will see this:
As you can see there is an option to "Save this symbol as...."
You can also drag and drop the symbol straight in to the drawing.
It is an 3D object that can be nicely orbited.
...and another sample might be..
Put it in...
Now we have two new symbols for Landscaping drawings.
...and they are all for free.
Now we´re just about to go for a week in Munich - testing out next version, Civil 3D 2009. Looking forward to that... !!
Cheers / Ove
