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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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