Autodesk Design and Manufacturing solutions through Digital Prototyping and Interoperability
Civil 3D is the king of the hill for Civil Design, and can develop elegant and detailed construction plans. Using Objects provided by the application, such as Surfaces, Pipes, Structures, Gradings, etc, revisions that would have taken a week can be performed in a day’s time. I did say ‘can be’. However, what happens after the plans are released, and the site is constructed? We need a CO, and what often stands in the way [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
When Dragging Pipe Network Structures you may notice that the Rim Elevation Changes. Sure the Rim elevation will change if set to Surface elevations, but they can change even if the Rim elevation is set manually. In this example, I was cleaning up an as-built utility plan. I already had the Rim and Sump elevation data from the field entered in, but I lacked the horizontal locations. I recently received the remaining data, so I [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Back to Part Builder Part 6 In the last session we created the Structures in the Civil 3D environment. In this session we will modify the configuration to add the slopes to a list, in order to change the structure to be consistent with the corridor side slope. Open up Wingwall Sloped in Part Builder. Since we have something that hopefully works, let’s save a new part. This way we have both. “If it aint [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Back to Part 5 Backup your model Before we begin, I seriously and strenuously suggest you back up your model. Don’t do the saveas (which is fine I suppose), but instead use Windows explorer to copy the .DWG and .XML files to a backup location. The VISTA path to these items is C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 2009\enu\Pipes Catalog\US Imperial Structures\Inlet-Outlet-Custom\ Map the User Parameters to the Application You may remember the parameters that were handed down when we [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Back to Part 4 Ok, it’s been awhile. Everyone knows I am studying for the test, but I feel so bad for all the people who have been emailing me about the series. I will run through the ‘Homework’, and then complete the configuration session soon hereafter. Homework Review We left off with your homework, which was to transfer the Toe plane out, and complete the transitions. I’ll recap it as I run through. Create [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
We will pick up where we left off from Part Builder Part 3. Open our saved part “Wingwall sloped” from the last session. Adjust the view so that you have something similar to the following image: It’s time to speed things up a bit, so as I refer to procedures, I will once again detail them, and thereafter I will just state that it needs to be completed. Note: Halfway through I realized some changes [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
We will pick up where we left off from Part Builder Part 2. Open our saved part “Wingwall sloped” from the last session. The image below should be representative of what we had before. Model Parameters The Model Parameters are the nuts and bolts variables that control the size of the part. The parameters are either dimensions or offsets that are controlling the size and angle of features, or parameters that the user has defined. [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Today we continue from where we left off in Part Builder Part 1. Before we proceed, I’d like to note that a wing wall may not be everyone’s biggest desire. I needed it, and I felt that it would proved a fairly well rounded view of things. It needs equations, and gets worked laterally instead of vertically, which make it more of a challenge. Sitting on the axis of 2 different careers I can see [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
I started a new Certification study project, and came up with the desire to grade a corridor over an existing creek. Yeah, DEP would be a problem, but let’s pretend I got the permit……. anyway. I wanted a headwall and culvert combination to convey the creek safely past the improvements. The OEM Headwall is flat, and cannot handle the amount of grading going on around it. I, as usual, wanted something different than what was [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Check out this tutorial series on using Autodesk Civil 3D Part Builder to customize you own structures and pipes. ...Read the rest of this article...