An issue came up today with an old style I developed (I think in 2007-08) when working with multiple Profileviews in that the dimension line was not showing when the end of a curve was not in the Profileview.
I was not really thinking about multiple Profileviews when I made this style to fix it, I had to change a couple of setting in the “A-TP to TP” grade and “A-Curve Length Crest and Sag” styles as per the image below
It’s early spring in Queenstown and we are getting our first real snow down to town level. Glad I have the snow chains in the car from the weekend skiing.
Just a reminder on how to add a crossing pipe to ProfileView
1. Select the pipe to be shown in the Profileview (aka Long section) right click and select “Draw parts in Profile View”
2. Follow the instructions at the command line i.e select the profile view.
3. Some line work for the pipe will appear in the profile view. This linework needs to be updated to show correctly with an override pipe style.
4. Select the ProfileView and right click select “ProfileView Properties”
5. Goto the Pipe Network Tab and change the override style as shown below
6.Exit and the pipe will be updated to show correctly
Being a Jack of all trades I tend to be to some grading one minute, piping the next and corridors the next month. Last week i as doing some more corridors again for the first time in a while so jotted down some tips below to remember for next time.
1. To stop the event view from coming up each time the corridor rebuilds turnoff the event view in the drawing settings.
2. Once you can get alot of regions in a complex corridor from within the corridors properties box use the select region button to find the region you want.
3. Have not gotten my work flow down yet for footpaths but at this stage i am using the urban side walk assembly and have polylines as targets on two separate layers one for the inside berm and one for the sidewalk width. This made it quicker to set the targets by layer not individual objects. Two issues came up
a. If you get a lot of extra frequency lines as below
this is because you are targeting the polyline and the arcs in a polyline get tessellated into small straights. Make sure under frequencies “Offset Target Geometry Points” is set to no.
b. I though it would be nice and tidy to join it the polylines to together for the path edges this created another issue of the targets extending to the next road over. Best to keep the lines in pieces.
4. I inherited the model to finish and it had all these steps in the contours after the intersections. After searching for a target profile issue for a hour or so I identified the issue as being the main road having 4% crossfall and the intersection assemblies being brought in as having only 3% therefore giving the step.
5. Use the Match Properties button on the ribbon, but remember to type settings each time at the commandline as the settings are not remembered and you do not want to swap assemblies in most cases just match frequencies.
6. For Bus stops use lane widening's these will update your offset alignment geometry to include your busstop. After selecting the offset alignment choose add widening on the ribbon. Here what all the settings relate too.
Just had an issue with lineweights and Acroplot so thought I would post it for others.
When I was doing a plot from Autocad Civil3d 2012 and choosing Acroplot pro as the printer my line weights were come out correctly. But when I was printing from Acroplot junior from within Autocad the line weights were all the same. I checked setting ctb, scaling , etc they all appear to be the same.
I posted a support request with Cadzation and they suggested setting Object lineweights to “saved” and that did the trick.
Currently trying to update my home laptop to 64 Bit to work on a project at night to meet a deadline. However after 3 days of trying to download Civil3d 2012 from the subscription website I am still having no luck. Hopefully Autodesk will get the issue fixed soon as I am sure I am not the only one experiencing the issue.
Lesson learnt download and burn a copy for when you need it in advance.
