Showing posts with label Leica HDS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leica HDS. Show all posts

Monday, December 17, 2012

Civil 3D APPS ON DEMAND

ALL I want for Christmas is a Civil 3D APP. I have been looking at these and wanting to test them forever. Now that Autodesk University is behind us it's time to start playing again. Please post if you have downloaded any APPS and feel free to review them here. I will begin my reviews the first of the year.  http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/CIV3D/Home/Index




 My favorite so far is the E57 file format for pointclouds. I will discuss this more on my next post along with the LAS file format for pointclouds in Civil 3D.









E57 file format plug-in for Pointclouds in Civil 3D 2013


The next review will be makinga copy 3D polylines/Featurelines and placing them in 2D.


Thursday, December 13, 2012

Civil 3D Medians and Curb Islands made easy in CORRIDOR

Autodesk University was great again this year. My biggest regret was not meeting with every client that was lucky enough to be out there. I would also like to thank the clients that did hangout. First year that the CRAPS table thanked me for coming to AU.

I spoke for the 4th year in a row and the title of my class was AutoCAD® Civil 3D®: "Curbing" Your Enthusiasm. I presented Conditional corridors for driveways, ADA ramps and sidewalks. I also provide a SOLU-AROUND for medians. Below shows a small portion I presented about medians. I will provide the ultimate part about my class after this solu-around.
This method of creating medians was not practical until the 2012 version. In version 2012 we can add multiple baselines alignments to a single corridor and all assemblies show up together in cross section view. So why not create alignments from each island and use the corridor surface as the profile? This would be dynamic and update as the corridor changes. Unfortunately Civil 3D corridors will not accept the elevation from the corridor profile. Solu-Around, create a new surface called medians. Now paste the corridor surface into it.

·         Create a corridor surface
·         Create a surface called medians
·         Paste the corridor surface into the medians surface
·         Create alignment from the edge of pavement around the median
·         Create profile from median surface.
·         Create assembly using only curb attached to the assembly
·         Add the alignment, profile and assembly to existing corridor
 
I will post part of the AU class or recorded Solu-Around at ADSKSolutions.com I will provide
direct link here.