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My buddy Todd over at LRHA pinged me today asking about restarting tag numbers for siteless alignments… and it got me thinking about something…
Civil 3D 2008 introduced the idea of a siteless alignment. For those out there who have struggled with the idea of site geometry, this is a nice improvement. Alignments built on the <none> site will not interact with feature lines or parcels or other alignments.
Alignments can still be placed on sites, however, and here are a few reasons why you might consider putting a few alignments on regular sites along with your parcels.
Read on….
If you are looking to learn What’s New with AutoCAD 2008 and Civil 3D 2008 here is your chance.
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One of the first tasks many new users are faced with in Civil 3D is importing an ascii file (otherwise known as text file) of points into Civil 3D for the purposes of building an existing ground surface.
You might get the points as a .txt, .prn, .csv or similar. In addition to their file type, points will have a format such as PNEZD, PENZD, NEZ, etc. and be space or comma delimited.
If you are wondering how you “create contours” from a list of points, here is the step by step on importing your points file, creating a point group, building a surface and viewing your surface contours in Civil 3D.
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So I had heard about this idea of corridor overhang correction that is new for 2008, but I hadn’t really run into anything that required using it until two weeks ago. I was working with a really terrific group of guys and gals that design dams and spillways. We built some pretty simple but powerful assemblies using generic links.
All went well until we built the surfaces….
Read on to find out what was happening.
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