Today I had a problem with a corridor and a transition of featurelines from an assembly with a median island to one without the island. The featurelines from the centre island kerb jump out to join the kerb at the outside of the assembly with no median island as shown below.
To stop this under the featureline tab of the corridor properties you have to turn the branching to outwards. Thanks to my co-worker Stan for pointing this setting out.
Just trying to batch plot a set of drawings from acroplot after updating the issue date in the sheetset with Sheetset Property Manager. But on the first print the updated date field in the title block was not refreshed. To fix it I resaved all sheets from sheetset manager and then reprinted from acroplot and the dates had refreshed.
Trying to get the sl-king link installed for KML files at the moment as pre this old post with no luck. Is any one using the link in Civil3d 2014? May just convert the Kml files to shp files and do it that way.
http://www.atlantic-cad.com/2014/11/03/civil-3d-fdo-provider-for-kmlkmz/
http://cadandgis.blogspot.co.nz/2009/06/autocad-map-3d-connect-to-arcsde.html
http://cadandgis.blogspot.co.nz/2009/06/autocad-map-3d-integrating-autocad-map.html
This is a quick reminder to myself to add an attribute to an existing title block / Cover sheet
1. Type refedit or right click edit in place the block.
2. Type attdef in the blockeditor and create the new attribute in the block and place where you want it.
3. Exit the block editor and save changes to the block.
4.Type Battman and sync the block you just edited and click the Sync button and the new attribute will appear in the list of attributes for the block. You can set the default valve for the attribute now if you forgot to in step 2.
Watched this very good AU presentation
Last week on setting up Company Tool Palettes so they work across numerous version of Autocad and Autocad LT from 2002 to 2012 which we happen to have running for various reasons.
I learnt a number of things
1. Hatch, Lines and Text dragged to the ToolPalette remember what layer they were on and create that layer if missing when dragged into a new drawing. Great for helping new staff to great content on the right layers without thinking about it.
2.To access the hidden system variables in Autocad you can add *_ to before the command if you know it.
3. You can use the hidden command “ToolPalettePath” to switch between numerous versions of ToolPalettes which is great.
4. To switch Tool Palettes you can record a new macro command or use a Diesel command (as Autocad LT does not use lsp) with a button on a toolbar to do it.
5. The Tool Palette searches in numerous locations for the block to insert,
a. The current drawing
b. The original file it was added from into the palette from.
c. The files under options for your search paths.
Armed with this new information and the following on Diesel Expressions from Tailoring Autocad here on displaying Diesel expression information in the commandline and in the forums here on concatenate Diesel strings. To help me get a string of the current file path and name in Autocad LT using $(EVAL, $(getvar,dwgprefix)$(getvar,dwgname))
I am on a mission to get my offices Tool Palettes and reuseable content more organised and structured.
Another quick reminder from here
Working on a as built plan with a council issued block from QLDC an some of the attributes marked invisible are still displaying. Using the setting below fixed it.
If your drawing doesn't display block attributes (even standard attributes not marked as "invisible"), check the setting of the ATTDISP command.
This command offers the following options:
Also you may have to run ATTSYNC as well if you have adjusted the visibility in the block.
Just a quick reminder to myself.
When I re entry some cross section drawing random pieces of the sectioned corridor model seem to have disappeared. Similar to the image below where half of the corridor on the right has gone.
The corridor section xref into the section drawing is still there but however for some reason the corridor is not sectioned anymore under the sample line sections. To fix this issue do the following.
1.Go into the sample line sections and right click and choose sample more sources.
2.Reselect the corridor model and click the add button to generate the sections again.
3. Now I notice in our template (anyway) that all the random corridor sections disappear and we have nothing. To make the corridor re appear you have to go into the section group properties and change the section style to the “basic” one and exit the corridor sections will reappear. Now repeat the above and change the style to the one we want and all will appear to be correct. This has to be done for all corridors and and every time the drawing is existed and re entered. I real pain in the ###.
