How to do business development with SITEOPS!

On June 17, 2010, in Best Practices, Consulting, Grading, SiteOps, Surface, Surfaces, drainage area, by David Settlemyer, P.E.

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We invite you to a special webinar session in which A.J. Whitaker, PE, PLS and Director of Site Development for Ware Malcomb, shares business development tactics and best practices for getting the most out of SITEOPS, patented online collaborative CAD software.

A.J. will share real-world examples of how SITEOPS has helped him win projects, find new solutions for sites, and “wow” clients through the power of online optimization and collaboration. “The clients love it and we’re winning new business as a result.”

 

When: Wednesday, June 23 – 2PM-3PM EST
Guest Speaker: A.J. Whitaker, PE and PLS, Director of Site Development
Who should attend: Engineers, Architects, CEO/VPs of AEC firms

Register today to reserve your seat:  http://www.siteops.com/news/civil.shtml

 
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Keep Your Curbed Islands Afloat

On January 14, 2010, in 2010, Alignments, Corridors, Grading, Surfaces, civil3d.com, by Jonathan Stewart

Grading in curbed islands can be a time consuming task and they often need to be changed based on the overall grading changes. Whether it’s a curbed island in a parking lot or a curbed median on a boulevard, secondary corridors give you another option to keep your islands dynamic.

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Smooth a Surface

On January 13, 2010, in Surfaces, by Mark Spatz, P.E.

Again, this is a re-post on a topic that was already covered in 2007 on Civil3d.com, Surface Smoothing Simplified.  However, this tip may be a little more simplistic – not giving as much in-depth detail – making it a little easier to distribute around the office.  Also, maybe some folks missed the 2007 posts… you never know.

Creating a nice smooth surface in the computer has always been a somewhat difficult task; until now!  With Civil 3D you can apply a surface edit (call “Smooth Surface…”) that will run some extra algorithms on your surface and make nice smooth contours were you don’t have that much definition to build the surface. 

Check it out…

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Using Max Triangle Length to Make A Surface Boundary

On January 4, 2010, in Surfaces, by Mark Spatz, P.E.

A tip I picked up from an Autodesk University class was to use restrictions on surface triangulation length to help create a surface boundary.  This is useful for Existing Grade (EG) and Finished Grade (FG) surfaces; surfaces built with Point, Survey Figures, or Featurelines.  However, it does not work for surfaces built from a corridor model.  It’s a real shame too, because I think it would be most useful for corridor surfaces.  So here’s the trick…

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Command Alias Editor & Adding Breaklines

On November 6, 2009, in Grading, Surfaces, by Mark Spatz, P.E.

Have you ever battled with the Command Alias Editor; that tool under Express Tools that lets you set abbreviations for your favorite commands (ie: "QS" to invoke the QSELECT command)?  I have, and after multiple lost battles (lost battle = me giving up) I have finally WON!

Why is the Command Alias Editor important in Civil 3D?  Well, it is a critical component of the workflow for adding Featurelines (breaklines) to a surface, QUICKLY!  So lets get started…

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A seldom used command in AutoCAD is Quick Select (QSELECT).  The QSELECT command is basically a filter that allows you to quickly select objects that have commonalities.  So, what does this have to do with the Command Alias Editor?  Well, typing QSELECT each time you want to use this tool takes way too much time – for me at least – and keeping the AutoCAD Properties Palette open slows down Civil 3D.  How do we fix that?  We use the Command Alias Editor!

After the jump learn how to use Command Alias Editor and how to use QSELECT to quickly add all your Grading Objects, Featurelines, Plines, 3Dplines, and 3Dlines to your surface in two steps.

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