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Quick Points Profile via Feature Lines
Quick Points Profile via Feature Lines
11/14/2017
How to Create a Quick Profile from Points via the Feature Line Elevation Editor Tool
Autodesk's Jerry Bartels walks through a workflow that employs COGO points to generate a 3D polyline, converted to a Feature Line,
and then employs the Draw3DEntityProfile option in the Quick Profile option of the Feature Line Elevation Editor to produce a Profile of the COGO Points.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
Comments
It pays to be a transparent Civil 3D user. The transparent 'PN command to a range of points is always a good tip.
This is a quick and dirty method we don't really think of. The example is a bit contrived, but makes the point.
I'd probably take the time to Create a point-based Alignment and project the Points by Point Group into the Profile View.
Maybe you want a Best Fit Profile from the points? I suppose it depends on the survey and/or design problem.
For reasons unknown and known, I keep remembering miles of irrigation and drainage ditches.
Ground to Grid in a Lambert Conic State
Ground to Grid in a Lambert Conic State
11/10/2017
How to Create a Ground to Grid Custom Coordinate System in a Lambert Conic Projection State Plane
Alan Gilbert of Autodesk shows how to employ the MAPCSLIBRARY command to copy and create a Ground to Grid coordinate system
in a State Plane that employs a Lambert Conformal Conic projection (longer in east-west direction).
See the link below for the previous video for State Plane built with a Transverse Mercator projection (longer in north-south direction).
Video from Alan's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
Comments
See the entire video series Civil 3D Grid to Ground
with the custom coordinate system built for Transverse Mercator projection State Planes
mentioned in the video above.
Model Underground Utilities in Infraworks
Model Underground Utilities in InfraWorks
11/09/2017
Using SHP Files to Model Underground Utilities in InfraWorks
Jeff Bartels of Autodesk drags and drops SHP files with Rim elevation and other Pipe and Structure data into Civil 3D via the Map Task pane and minor edits to the Map Styles.
He repeats the process of SHP import into in Infraworks to model and review the Structures and Pipes.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
Comments
Note that Jeff artfully dodges any discussion of pushing the SHP data into a Civil 3D Pipes Network.
This is a bit more involved and not exactly the point of the video. You are going to ask.
See the Import GIS Data Wizard in Civil 3D Help.
Careful there are older 2014-2017 help versions and this newer help version for Civil 3D 2018.