Being Civil

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Preview: Alignment Constraints and New Labels

In my overview post of alignment enhancements, I discussed alignment constraint swapping, PI index numbering, and a few new alignment labels that would take advantage of some of this new functionality. Today, we will look at some of that functionality and see how it can be utilized in the design process.

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Preview: Styles Management

I know for a fact that many of you out there have been waiting for this functionality, and with 2012, your wishes have been granted.

 

AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Preview: Alignment Enhancements

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!

Slope Distance Label

You probably won’t need this very often, but this came up recently, and I wanted to share.  The user was looking for a way to label the slope distance of a Line.  Despite trying to build a Style with the stock components, he kept getting the 2D distance.

As mentioned, this isn’t needed often, so it was not included stock.  However, creating an Expression to calculate slope distance is easy.  Simply use the old A^2 + B^2 = C^2 equation

The end result looks like this:

Vertical Markers for ROW and EOP – Setting up Assemblies and Corridor (part 2)

This is second part in a 3-part series about displaying EOP or ROW labels in Section Views. The first part was talking about setting up markers, labels and code set styles. In each of these 3 posts you may refresh memory about some available settings in Label Style Composer, revisit Code Set Styles and displaying objects in Section View. Once all steps are completed your final result should look like this.

So let’s start with phase 2 after the jump.

Vertical Markers for ROW and EOP – Setting up Labels and Markers (part 1)

In more than one occasion we have seen customer’s attempt to display some form of line markers representing Right-of-Way or End-of-Pavements or simply any type of a marker that would follow the corridor in Section View. It’s not secret that the labels acting as ROW or EOP markers can be attached to any surface and can follow any horizontal alignment. Also, The ROW or EOP lines and labels are completely separate so rebuilding the corridor should update them with no problem. Assuming that we have all data necessary for this multi-step task of creating Vertical Markers I am going to split the workflow in 3 different linked posts. In each one of them you may refresh some available settings in Label Style Composer, revisit Code Set Styles and displaying objects in Section View. Once all steps are completed your final result should look like this.

So let’s start with phase1 after the jump.

Styles Management Made Easy

Have you ever received a drawing from an outside consultant and wanted to convert it to use your company standard styles? This was possible with a manual process of inserting your drawing template as a block into the consultant’s drawing, but command settings were still not set up correctly. With the Subscription Advantage Pack for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011, a previously undocumented command has been exposed that helps with this process. Follow the link to see!

Subscription Advantage Pack Videos

It’s been a few days since we released the Advantage Pack.  How is everyone liking it?  The ability to now import styles and settings easily will, I am sure, be useful to our customers!

If you haven’t downloaded it yet, or unsure of what is included, we have some videos showing the new functionality here: http://support.autodesk.com/getdoc.asp?id=TS15737938

Enjoy!