Posted by M. Anderson, PE on 9th July 2008
We are working on a roadway extension project for a site that only has a stub street. We have the EG ground sampled and the profile view has been created. My proposed grade needs to start from the end of the street’s concrete apron and needs to match the existing slope or I need a transition area.
But I want to label only that first existing tangent. How do I label this one short little segment.
This question stumped me for a minute.
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Posted in 2008, 2009, CivilAccess, Corridors, Labels, Profiles, Surfaces | 2 Comments »
Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 28th May 2008
Quick reminder, the EECast worldwide tour continues today! I’ll be looking at a intersection design and cul-de-sac design, and how you can do both without ever touching a profile again (after setup of course). Register here, and check out the full schedule at left.
Posted in 2009, Add On Software, Corridors, EE ProPack, EECast, Engineered Efficiency, Programming, civil3d.com | No Comments »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 22nd May 2008
Time flies when you are having fun and the EECast yesterday was incredibly fun. I was very excited to show dynamic feature line extraction from corridors and some ideas on how you might tie shared-site feature lines together.
I could see lightbulbs going on all over the place as the live questions and comments kept coming in… Since we only had 60 minutes together, I thought I would put up a few summary diagrams of the intersection. (I’ll do the lot grading one later.) Keep in mind that while Civil 3D 2008 has the same ability to have one feature line “drive” another on the same site, the dynamic corridor extraction are 2009 only.
Also note that next week, James will be doing an EECast on a different dynamic intersection modeling idea that uses the EEPropack and dynamically linked profiles, and on June 4, I will be doing an EECast on Building Better Terrain Models.
See the diagram after the jump.
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Posted in 2008, 2009, Corridors, Grading | 3 Comments »
Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 13th May 2008
A post popped up in the Adesk Discussion Groups about how to adjust the sampling widths of sections to match a variable width ROW. If you’ve ever needed to adjust your sections, read on for more information.
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Posted in 2008, Corridors, Sections | 2 Comments »
Posted by Jason Hickey on 21st April 2008
I was testing something for Dana today and ran into an unexpected event with Civil 3D 2009, and thought that I should let users know about it so they won’t be surprised. I have confirmed that it is a known issue, but definitely not a show stopper.
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Posted in 2009, Corridors, Sub Assemblies | 6 Comments »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 21st April 2008
With Civil 3D 2009, there are a lot of small things that make me happy. There are quite a few tweaks to styles dialogs, user options and command prompts that don’t seem like much but really make a difference.
Read on to see one I am working with today…
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Posted in 2009, Sub Assemblies | 5 Comments »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 14th April 2008
There are heaps of nifty new feature line tools in Civil 3D 2009 that will make your grading life a whole lot more fun. One of my favorites is using a feature line as a corridor target. Think of all of the times you would love to grap elevations to drive your model but it seems redundant to make another alignment and a profile, especially when you already have a feature line drawn.
Read on…
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Posted in 2009, Corridors, Grading | 5 Comments »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 19th March 2008
I received an email this morning from Joerg at Autodesk in Munich with some really neat things you can do with the new View/Edit Corridor Sections interface.
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Posted in 2009, Corridors | 1 Comment »
Posted by Jason Hickey on 19th March 2008
I’m sitting here at Chicago O’Hare airport, delayed for over 3 hours due to the nasty storm covering the midwest, and chatting with Nick Zeeben. I was looking for something to write about, and happened to remember something I saw while reading the New Features Workshop (you DO read that, don’t you?) and kept seeing on my tool palettes - assemblies! I tried to add one (the program comes with some pre-installed on a new palette) and was unsuccessful. I tried a variety of different methods, and nothing worked. Instead of beating my head against the wall trying to figure it out (and attracting the unwanted attention of airport security,) I decided to ask Nick. He’s always good for an answer, even if it’s one that I don’t want to hear. If you want to see how this is accomplished, follow the link!
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Posted in 2009, Corridors, Sub Assemblies | 4 Comments »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 18th March 2008
For a few releases now, the View/Edit Corridor Section tools have been a bit tough to use. The cosmetics were difficult to control, you couldn’t really zoom or do any easy naviagtion. I’m happy to report that this interface has been improved for Civil 3D 2009.
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Posted in 2009, Corridors | 2 Comments »
