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The AutoCAD Group in Civil 3D
The AutoCAD Group in Civil 3D
1/31/2017
How to Employ the AutoCAD Group commands in Civil 3D
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Jerry Bartels of Autodesk covers the quick and dirty basics of the AutoCAD Group commands.
These include GROUPEDIT, GROUPDISPLAYMODE, CLASSICGROUP, and UNGROUP.
From the Jerry's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Imersion blog.
AutoCAD employs the drawing ObjectIDs to collect the entities in a Group.
Obviously if these are things like a Survey point (not a COGO point) the IDs will change with Survey Insert and Remove Point commands.
The same warning applies to Civil 3D Data References if they are deleted and referenced again.
The Selectable option can be useful if you need to make sure you don't bash things accidentally.
The backside is that in an XREF Bind or Insert-Explode situation the properties of the Group still apply.
If you employ GROUP, the others who work with you need to know. It adds AutoCAD collection behaviors where people may not expect it.
A Road Assembly with Offset Assembly
A Road Assembly with Offset Assembly
1/9/2017
How to Employ Some Lesser Known Civil 3D Subassemblies
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Shawn Cox of Pacificad covers the basics of Assembly Offsets, the Marked Point, and generic Link subassemblies
You have a roadway and a bike path and want to deal with the two Assemblies together here's the how to.
From the Pacificad YouTube Channel.
and the Pacificad website.
Pasted Surfaces for Profile Labels
Pasted Surfaces for Profile Labels
1/26/2017
Use a Pasted Surface to Generate Corrected Profile View Labels
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Jeff Bartels of Autodesk covers the basics of the Surface Edit Paste command - a way to combine surfaces in Civil 3D.
He employs the tool to create adjusted surface labels in the band style of a typical roadway that includes a bridge over the existing ground.
From the Jeff's YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Imersion blog.
The concepts covered here are very important for the creation of intermediate surfaces often employed in design in Civil 3D.
In other words sometimes it takes more than one surface to create and/or document your design in Civil 3D.
My only caution here is that you'd better carefully manage where all these interactive surfaces are stored in your project.
In Jeff's quick and dirty example the working drawing is the publishing drawing. This can drive you crazy as things get more complicated.