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From time to time we get an opportunity to invite you and your talent to work for one of the best places to work for - Autodesk? The Infrastructure Support team is looking for a good candidate with strong AutoCAD Civil 3D knowledge and knowledge of AutoCAD Map 3D, InfraWorks or Map Server. This job is in Lake Oswego, Oregon. If you think you got all it takes, please contact us. See for more details see this link.

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Generate a Layout for a View Frame Overview

It is my great pleasure to introduce Karsten Saegner to the blogosphere. Karsten is our co-worker from our Munich, Germany office and in the future will be contributing to Being Civil blog. I am sure you will find great benefits from his perspective, knowledge and experience he brings to the team. Now our team is really global and as we have contributors from three different continents and cover something like 18 hours of time zones. Please join me in welcoming Karsten.

Almas 

You might have wanted to create a map series of your model and realize it with View Frames in Civil 3D.

In the Model View you see all your View Frames and how they line up to each other. To give an overview of where each View Frame is located in the model you might want to create an overview map and plot it, but the View Frames are not displayed in the Layout.

 
    View Frames in Model View and they are missing in the Layout View.

The solution is to check the Viewport Frame Type and set it to “Undefined”.
After a REGENALL command the View Frames should be displayed in the Layout View and the overview map can be plotted.

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 New Feature: Automatic Pan and Zoom and Import/Export Query

Continuing with our New Feature articles there are two quick things I wanted to show today. The first one is the ability to use Automatic Pan and Zoom to Survey Figure. This is useful in case if you were reviewing or editing your figure. Now as soon as you select Survey Figure Properties program zooms to the figure. This setting is found in Survey User Settings dialog.

 

Another quick thing I wanted to introduce is the ability to Import or Export Survey Query Files from a Survey database. This way you can export all defined queries from your Survey database to a specified location. Program will create a query file with QML file format. This query can also be imported into the Survey database.

In your Survey Toolspace tab, if you right-click on Survey Queries and choose Export you will see the option.

 

Stay tuned for more.

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 New Feature: Apply Vertical Close Between Surfaces Automatically (QTO)

You will find this new option under Setting tab.

 

When set to True which is the default value, this setting specifies that open areas between surfaces are closed automatically with a vertical closure.

When this setting is set to False, the open areas between surfaces are not closed automatically.

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 New Feature: Important changes to drawing templates in Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014

The import styles and settings command can assist you in updating your existing drawing templates with the new settings and styles.

Drawing Settings

Feature	Description
Drawing Settings dialog box, Object Layers tab	Pressure Network Section layer: C-WATR-SCTN Pressure Part Table layer: C-WATR-TABL

General Settings

Feature	Description
Multipurpose Styles	Projection Style: Solids Identical to the existing Basic projection style except for the following: As Drawn check box on the Section Tab: Selected Section check box on the Section Tab: Selected

Pressure Network Settings

Feature	Description
Command Settings: AddAppurtTable	Table Creation properties: Table Style: Standard Split Table: True Maximum Number of Rows: 20 Maximum Tables Per Stack: 3 Table Spacing: 0.5" / 40.00 mm Tile Direction: Across
Command Settings: AddFttingTable	Table Creation properties: Table Style: Standard Split Table: True Maximum Number of Rows: 20 Maximum Tables Per Stack: 3 Table Spacing: 0.5" / 40.00 mm Tile Direction: Across
Command Settings: AddPressurePipeTable	Table Creation properties: Table Style: Standard Split Table: True Maximum Number of Rows: 20 Maximum Tables Per Stack: 3 Table Spacing: 0.5" / 40.00 mm Tile Direction: Across
Command Settings: CreatePressureNetworkFromObj	All settings inherited from Pressure Network Feature Settings
Command Settings: CreatePressureNetworkReference	All settings inherited from Pressure Network Feature Settings
Styles	Existing pressure pipe, fitting, and appurtenance styles have been modified to include settings for the Section View Direction on the Display tab: Walls: Visible Hatch: Not visible Existing fitting and appurtenance styles have been modified to include settings for the Section tab: Display Section option: Selected
Table Styles	Basic styles have been added for pressure pipe, fitting, and appurtenance table styles.

Section Settings

Feature	Description
Command Settings: Default Name Format	Section Name Template changed to the following: <[Sample Line Group(CP)]> - <[Sample Line Name(CP)]> - <[Section Surface Name(CP)]>(<[Next Counter(CP)]>)

New Layers

Feature	Layer Name	Description
Pressure Networks	C-WATR-SCTN	Water Network: section
	C-WATR-TABL	Water Network: table
	C-WATR-APPT-PATT	Water Network: appurtenances, hatching
	C-WATR-FITT-PATT	Water Network: fittings, hatching