AUGIWorld Magazine - March/April 2008 - (Page 26) exclamation point on the non-standard portion of your alignment. Making this feature even more exciting is the fact that it works for profiles as well. For instance, if your vertical alignments K value is too low, an exclamation point will be placed on your profile to alert you of the problem. Autodesk seems to add new subassemblies to the software with each release. Civil 3D is no different, and in this release we welcome four new subassemblies: DaylightBasin2, DaylightMultipleSurface, DaylightInsideROW, and Ditch. While the various subassemblies introduced in recent releases have been nice, parts of creating assemblies could be cumbersome. More specifically, basic Move, Copy, and Mirror commands now work on subassemblies. Perhaps it’s a carryover from using LDT, but I still prefer creating one full side of my assembly first, then the other. The mirror function makes that process especially simple as, with one click, any number of subassemblies can be mirrored along any subassembly attachment point. Corridors Figure 7: Data references not included in eTransmit command. Figure 6: Station Tracker shows your current location in both Plan and Profile. files containing various Civil 3D data such as a surface. Looking back, it is amazing to see how far AutoCAD Civil 3D has come in five short years. Evolving from a proof-ofconcept product in 2004 to a full-fledged design platform today has been no small feat. While AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 does not introduce anything on the scale of .NET subassemblies or Plan Production, it does introduce features addressing many realworld civil designer needs. Be it a better way to manage a large dataset or simply share it, Civil 3D 2009 offers users a way to do each. Instantaneous feedback on design using Criteria-Based Design will certainly save time, but more importantly, it will improve the quality and integrity of your design. Donnie Gladfelter is the Design Systems Specialist for Timmons Group; an ENR 500 design and consulting firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, with offices throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Backed by more than a decade of CAD experience, he is jointly responsible for the development and delivery of training, support, and CAD standards for their more than 200 CAD users. He can be reached at donnie.gladfelter@timmons.com, or through his CAD Blog online at www.TheCADGeek.com. w w w. A U G I . c o m The View/Edit Section function is nothing new to Civil 3D, in fact LDT had a similar feature. Civil 3D 2009 does, however, take this invaluable feature and make it even better! The new feature is called “Station Tracker,” and the idea behind the feature is to let you see in plan and profile the station whose cross-section you’re viewing. The often overlooked VIEWPORTS command gets utilized with the new Station Tracker. Use the VIEWPORTS command to split model space into three views. Zoom in on your alignment in one view, your profile in another, and start the View/Edit Sections command from the third viewport. Station 26 Tracker will now display a line on both your alignment and profile indicating where the station you are viewing is located. Today’s fast-paced design environment dictates the exchange of information. Many AutoCAD users rely on the AutoCAD ETransmit command to aide in collecting the many drawing and other support files used by a given drawing. One major limitation of the ETransmit command has been its inability to pick up Civil 3D data references. Civil 3D 2009 corrects this shortcoming, and allows the ETransmit command to pull in Sharing data http://www.TheCADGeek.com http://www.augi.com
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