A lot of times, SSA users find that there is a slight difference in the results seen in the Time Series Plots and the numbers seen within the Analysis Summary in the elements Property dialog as shown below:
Figure 1.0 Different results seen in the Time Series Plot and Analysis Summary
The Time Steps section within the Analysis Options is the key to resolve this difference seen in the results. It establishes the time step length to be used for the runoff computations, routing computations, and results reporting. The Reporting and Routing Time Step is the most important thing for network analysis.
SSA uses a default Reporting time step of 5 minutes and Routing time step of 30 seconds. In most cases users tend to use the default and define only the Start and End Dates to perform the analysis. A very important thing to note here is that the Output Report or Analysis Summary within the element properties windows shows the results based on every routing time step whereas the Time Series Plot is generated on the Reporting time steps defined. This is where the difference emanates.
Do you do design work for state DOT’s? Does part of your job entail providing cost estimates for construction projects? If the answer to these questions is “yes” then you need to check out the Bid Express Extension for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012. This extension is of the Software as a Service (SaaS) variety in that it plugs into Civil 3D to bridge the QTO functionality with a third party web service to provide cost estimating based on custom pay item lists. You can download this extension from the subscription center and begin working with it now. To see it in action, follow the link below:
With a focus on transportation, there are quite a few enhancements for alignments in the new release of Civil 3D. This particular post is going to cover a lot of very high-level overview type information regarding alignments, and will be broken out into individual posts that will dig more deeply into the subjects over the coming month. To see what some of the new features are, follow the link!
Before even start to considering adding and running new reports you need to make sure Internet Explorer is set to be your default browser. If not, you may want to go back to check Justin’s post about browser troubles when running report.
If you are one of those users that knows little more about scripting or simply have some XSL files you have received by somebody who created them for the purpose of reporting, you may need to know how to use them. Also if you have ever compared the settings from another reporting tool called “LandXML Reporter” you may have noticed that not all reports are included into Civil 3D Toolbox tab. Today, I am going to show you how to make reports available for easy use in Civil 3D. Click on the link below to see how.
If you have been using Report Manager in the past and are one of the regulars on Being Civil you may have noticed an old post Radial Stakaout Report – Changing Angle from Azimuth written by Justin. In short, this post talks about one way to edit those XSL scripts with LandXML Reporter. If you are using Civil 3D 2011 you may do pretty much all that within Civil 3D. To get a better understanding of this tool I will try to use it in one example. See it after jump.
In Civil 3D 2011, you may have noticed that when you run a Radial Stakeout Report from the Toolbox, that the stakeout angle is in Azimuth format. This may be good for some, but for those of you that want this in Angle format, I am going to show you how.
There are two ways to get information on regarding a Parcel. The first is to use the Parcel Map Check Report found in the Toolbox. The second is to use the MAPCHECK command. Let’s take a look at both and see why you may want to use one over the other.
If you are one of the many people who are using a default web browser of anything other than Internet Explorer, you may have seen this message when running a report from the toolbox:
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