Survey Publication Part One

The Process and Workflow of Plan Deliverable Production

What are the essentials of publishing complex digital deliverables from Civil 3D.
This Training Video provides an brief big picture overview.

Videos employ the InstantOn Resources Project Dataset
available with InstantOn and Jump Kit Framework products.

The Ballpark Survey Db from the InstantOn Project dataset is employed

Topics Covered:

Publish – The Checklist Items

o Publication is NOT Quality Control

o Publish to is Always a Process

Digital AutoCAD or DGN Files

Publish to AutoCAD BEFORE conversion to DGN

•   MapExport produces an ACAD version of the Civil 3D Feature data
•   Output Drawings Must Also Be Processed

o Publish the Different Civil 3D Features Separately

Allows for different graphics

o Publication - A Play in 3 Acts

Create an XREF drawing of the Separate Civil 3D content drawings

AECEXPORT the Civil 3D data and Post Process the Results in a single ACAD only drawing

DGNEXPORT the ACAD drawing to produce a .dgn file version

o The OLD Publish Template Particulars

 

Publication is NOT Quality Control

o Determine the Need

Digital, or non-editable Digital Picture, or Image

• Digital means – and “easy to edit” deliverable
• Non-editable – lots more work to edit
• Same as the above without Post-Processing
•   Image – delivers the picture
• DWF from Modelspace – works for any AutoCAD application
• PDF from Modelspace – an image they have to scale in ACAD and DGN

o Get the Survey Data Corrected

Worry about the Picture Last

Create Drawing(s) to Check & Edit and THROW AWAY

•   Employ a temp Surface to Identify Problems & Edits

Check and Correct Setups & Figures First

Correct Point Descriptions to match intended result

Add COGO to Survey Points to document Inverts etc.

 

Publish is a Process

o What Results?

From the Most to the Least Work

•   Digital AutoCAD >>Digital DGN>>Images>>Non-Editable digital files

Publish to AutoCAD BEFORE Conversion to DGN

o SaveAS and Export to are Not the Same
– See the Help File

AECEXPORTTO<Release> - Produces ACAD Primitive from Civil 3D Feature data

MAPEXPORT - Produces a more File Conversions of AutoCAD data

DGNEXPORT - Produces a more consistent and controllable DGN conversion

o Editable Result Requires Post-processed output Drawings

Explode Down to Basic Primitives

Clean up the primitives

•   Insert|Explode drawing(s) with ALL the resources
•   Employ Scripts to Rename the AutoCAD blocks/layers  to old names

o Combine the results into a final ACAD drawing

DGNEXPORT (MapExport) the final drawing to DGN

Get the First Act Together

o Create Assembly Drawing from Civil 3D XREFs

Grid Drawing

Surface Drawing(s)

Figures Drawing(s)

Points Drawing(s)

Point Labels Drawing(s)

Notes and Other Annotation Drawing(s)

Profiles Drawing(s) – User Plan and Production Wizard and an XREF

Sections Drawings(s)- Use an Xrefed drawing, Alignment, and Sample Line Group

Publish Different Features Separately

o Grid Drawing - Annotation

See the Grid video

o Surface Drawing

Contours, Borders, Labels

Contours as Primitives or Combined

  FLATTEN?

o Figures Drawing

Line work in 2D or 3D? – FLATTEN?

o Points Drawing

Symbols without Annotation

o Point Labels Drawing?

Annotation almost without Symbols

• Markers should be Point Styles that employ a BLOCK not a Marker

Figure Data Cleanups

o Identify bad & crossing Figures

·       Check for Crossing Breaklines

o Add extra points to Figures

Needed geometry points in Figures – better arc definitions – will a copied 3D Line  work?

Gates in Fences , Breaks in Figure ,etc.

Close an open slab , building , roof Figures, etc.

o Create Figures Interactively to add missing pieces

Driveway End and Start to back of aprons

Close open figures – Can you  Continue

Missing segments in Figures

Delete and Recreate Interactively miss connected Figures

Add Figures to become Surface Breaklines  to correct Surface issues

Export to Backup Added Figures

o Create Offset Feature Lines from Figures in a Drawing

Edit Survey Figure Properties versus Edit Geometry and Edit Elevation Ribbon Tools

Face of Curb if you only have Back of Curb etc – Standard Curb & Gutter

Create Figures from Feature Line Objects

Export to Backup Added Figures