OK, it’s a bit of a slow day on the Subscription post, so Mark and the guys at EE decided to liven it up apparently. Look, if you’re a CadManager, or even just the guy in charge of managing the template, and you don’t have ProPack yet, go get it now.
EE ProPack CadMgr Civil 3D add-on is now FREE!
Seriously, this is the best tool currently available for managing styles, and it will be for some time to come, so go get your free software groove-thing on.
Please welcome Tony Carcamo to the civil3d.com team–JW
Hi everyone. I would like to say this is my first official post with Civil3d.com. Tonight, I would like to provide you a few tips and tricks for pipe network design. Lets begin by setting the Manning’s coefficient for each of your pipe sizes in the part network list. I provided a list of the three most commonly used storm pipe types below. You can also find this information in most city standard drainage manual. This will come in handy later on in the post. (more…)
Thanks to Richard Sincovec for this concise listing of priority. I forget the order quite a bit, so I’m putting it here for safe mental housekeeping.
If you use Description Keys to assign styles to each individual Cogo Point, then those styles will take priority over the styles in the Point Group, unless you turn on the Point Group Override (on the Overrides tab, in the Point Group Properties).
The order of control is:
1) Style from Point Group, IF the Override is enabled.
2) Style assigned to the Cogo Point itself, if one is assigned.
3) Style from Point Group.– Sinc
You can check out Sinc’s company here and his software here. His toolset seems to strike more of a chord with Survey folks, while EE’s stuff rings with engineers, but it’s always good to check out new stuff.
A question came up today from our Pittsburg branch:
“How can I make Civil 3D round spot elevations to the nearest five-hundredths of a foot (0.05’)?”
I knew creating an EXPRESSION was the answer but I just didn’t know how to accomplish this task. So after putting my noodle on the solution over the afternoon – from time-to-time when I needed a break from real work – I came up with the final expression around dinner.
Learn more after the jump…
No we are not talking about the European way to describe elevations (I just couldn’t resist) and we are not talking about the Bentley way to describe layers. We are talking about the idea that with Civil3D, getting the settings to work is based upon a hierarchical level. Let’s illustrate this and see if we can better understand Civil3D settings and their relations with each other.
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