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Chapter 10 – AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Essentials – The Essentials and Beyond
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hello my name is Eric Chappell author of
autocad civil3d 2013 essentials and this
is the additional exercise for chapter
10 so in this exercise we're going to
apply what we learned about sections and
section views and apply them to the
Madison Lane alignment and corridor so
the first thing we need to do is set up
the views of our screen we're going to
divide it into three viewports plan view
profile view and section view so to
start off doing that I'm going to go to
the View menu and this really kind of a
matter of preference how you want to
configure your viewports I'm going to do
this one here
three left that's going to split my
screen up into three viewports a big one
on the left that takes up half the
screen and then two smaller ones I'm
going to use the big one on the left as
my plan view and close down some of
these windows I don't need and in the
top right I'll make this my profile view
and then this one down here is going to
ultimately be my section editor view so
for now I'm just going to zoom into the
corridor but whenever I'm using the
section editor command I actually want
it to be housed in this viewport down
here so that's it it's pretty simple to
create the three viewports plan view
here profile view and ultimately the
section editor view will be here and
that takes care of the first task for
our next task we need to remove the
ditch on the left side of Madison Lane
between stations 1 plus 50 and 2 plus 50
so this is a similar situation to what
we had at the beginning of Jordan court
where we had a ditch and you can see
it's actually made its way back in here
again that really didn't need to be
there this is only a not even 200 feet
of ditch and as you can see the water is
just going to pool there and lay there
alongside the road so why don't we just
take that ditch away let the drainage
fall onto the road and continue along
its way so to remove that ditch we're
going to use the section editor and
actually want to use this as our section
editor so I'm going to zoom into that
area in this view click the corridor
click the section editor command and
here's where we want to create the
override that removes the ditch now in
order to do that we need to go to the
parameter editor and let me make this
nice and big because there's a lot of
information and we want to go to the
left daylight because this is the left
side of the road and we want to change
some values on the ditch to basically
make it go away we're going to change
the for slope width of the ditch to zero
and we're going to change the back slope
width of the ditch to zero those are the
two widths that define the the size of
the ditch as a lot as well as the bottom
width so we want all of those values to
be zero the ditch kind of shrinks up and
disappears and then what we want to do
is we want to apply that over a range of
stations I basically want to apply that
change from 1 plus 50 up to this station
right here which I'm really not sure
what that is but I can go the whole way
up to 2 plus 50 just to make life easy
on myself that's what I'm going to do
I'm going to go from 150 to 250 so I'll
say apply to a station range it's
already set up for 150 I'll just type in
a 250 here and click OK and it should
remove all the values for that ditch now
I can close down my section editor and I
can rebuild the corridor and you can see
the ditch has been taken away so by
using the overrides in the section
editor and applying them along a station
range we can make a change to the
corridor such as removing a ditch and
that takes care of the second task
for the third task we are asked to
create a sample line group for the
purposes of design and we want each
sample line to be located at a corridor
section so in other words each one of
these blue lines that cuts across the
corridor that's where the corridor
sections are located so I'll go to the
Home tab and click the sample lines
command it's going to ask me to pick an
alignment and I'll just hit enter and
pick Madison Lane the sources that I
want to sample the eg surface and the
Madison Lane corridor those are the two
things that I've selected I'll click OK
and now I need to tell it where the
sample lines are located and that's with
this little drop-down right here and
this is where I say from corridor
stations so I'll click that it wants to
know how wide left and right do I want
the swath width to be I'm going to
accept the default of 50 feet left and
right and click OK and now we see I'll
hit escape to finish the command we can
see the sample lines that correspond
with each corridor section on the
corridor and now just to kind of
demonstrate how you would utilize that
I'm going to create a couple of of
corridor sections to look at for design
purposes so I'll start with 0 plus 25
let's take a look at 0 plus 25 so I'll
go to my section views command and I'll
say create section view and I want to
base it on Madison lane I should have
named this sample line group design or
something that indicates that it's a
design section group or sample line
group but I'll just have to remember
that it's a sample line collection 3 and
I want to do 0 plus 25 which is this one
right here so go ahead and create the
section view using a design style and
there it is so there's my section at 0
plus 25 I can see I've got a ditch on
the right no ditch on the left and get a
sense of the shape of the lanes that she
for the ditch and even have some labels
there that show me some key elevations
on the section view and I could do that
for as many sections as I want and I can
use these these section views as a tool
for analyzing and maybe adjusting my
design so that takes care of task number
three so for the next task we are asked
to create another sample line group but
this one is going to be for sheet
creation as opposed to design so it's
going to be at even increments every 50
feet and we also want to create section
views that are arranged in sheets like
we've done for Jordan Court in in the
previous exercises so before we get too
far along with that though I want to do
some housekeeping I'm going to take my
generically named sample line collection
3 and change that to something a little
more meaningful I'm going to call it ml
design from madison lane design and then
i'm also going to go into the properties
of that sample line group and change the
styles so that we kind of make the the
sample lines disappear not completely we
just won't be able to see them in the
drawing so I'm going to change the style
of the sample lines in that group to no
display and you can see the lines go
away but the labels are left in place so
I'm going to do one other thing I'm
going to go to the Edit group labels
command and just simply remove the
labels so the sample lines are still on
the drawing you can see them listed here
we've just made it so that we can't see
them so now it'll be a little easier to
see the results of what we're about to
do so I want to create another sample
line group for Madison Lane and I want
to go in here and say by default it
wants to create additional sample lines
on the group that's already been created
I want to create a new sample on group
so I'm going to go here and I'm gonna
call this ml sheets okay for Madison
Lane sheets same things that I'm going
to sample the eg surface and the
corridor and I'm gonna pick
a different style this time road
sections that's gonna be the style for
my corridor and for my existing ground I
want that to be obviously existing and
not finished alright so that's a little
bit of style selection there and then
the most important thing is choosing
where the sample lines are going to be
located so this time instead of from
corridor stations I'm going to do by
range of stations and this will let me
do a nice even increment by going down
here and saying let's use sampling
increments and let's say 50 feet across
the board tangents curves and spirals
even though I don't have any spirals in
this alignment let's just take care of
all of them yes let's do the range start
and the range end but let's not do any
other geometric points along the
alignment so when I click OK and hit
enter to complete the command I should
see sample lines at a nice even 50-foot
increment alright so that takes care of
the sample line portion of of that task
now that the sample lines are in place I
want to create sheets for those section
views so we'll go up here to my section
views command and say create multiple
views I want to create multiple views
along Madison Lane and I want to use the
ml sheets sample line group section view
style is Road section that looks good
I'll click Next
as you can see it's kind of a wizard
configuration like we've done in the
prior exercises I'm going to go out and
pick the template from chapter 10 so
I'll go to C civil3d
essentials chapter 10 there's my
sections GWT and let's go ahead and do
40 scale click Next
next all of these settings should be
good
and I'm going to go ahead and just say
create section views put them right
above Jordan court section views and
let's see what we get everything looks
pretty good except we've got those
labels on the existing ground and to
handle those we'll click on one of the
section views and we'll go to view group
properties and we're going to take a
look at the section label so next to eg
here where it says change labels I'm
going to click Edit change that to no
labels and that'll take those existing
ground labels away and that looks very
good it looks a lot like the sections
that we have for Jordan Court and that
satisfies the requirements for task
number 4 and now for task 5 we want to
use section views once again for a
design purpose so what I'm going to do
is I want to create a section view for
one of my design sample lines now since
those are turned off and I can't see
them I'm going to access this through
prospector and under ml design I've got
my list of sample on so you can see that
first sample line right there I'm going
to select it and that's going to get
bring up my ribbon and then I'm gonna
pick sample more sources and what I want
to add to my sources is the Jordan court
finished ground surface all right I'm
gonna pick that bounce it over and now I
can see the Jordan Court finished ground
so I'll click OK you can see the even
though that sample line is not visible
it's still selected it and I can see the
grips shown there so now that the grips
are selected I'm going to create that
section view so I'll click the tool to
create the section view and I'll just
accept the defaults and place it here in
the drawing all right now we've got some
of those labels and I didn't I wasn't
really conscious of style so let me
escape
out of this command I'm gonna click one
of those labels that I kind of want to
get rid of and click Edit label group
and just remove those labels from that
surface section now I want to be able to
differentiate easily more easily between
the Jordan court surface and the other
surfaces so here we've got the sample
through the corridor of Madison Lane
here we've got a section representing
the existing ground so I'm going to go
to section properties and change the
style of that to existing ground so now
we can see the red is the existing
ground and the blue is the profile of
Jordan corridor the section of Jordan
Court and what we're looking at is right
here look at how well the crown of
Madison Lane is tying into the
centerline elevations of Jordan Court
that's the good news something we have
to be conscious of however is when you
get down to the the extreme is the edge
of the lane here and the edge of the
lane here there's a big elevation
discrepancy between the Madison Lane
elevations and the Jordan Court
elevation so we're going to have to do
something to our design to kind of warp
this Lane and swing it around up into
Jordan Court and swing this Lane down
and around into Jordan court and
actually the intersection wizard if we
utilize it does all of that for us it
handles that transition from the section
of one road into the profile of the
intersecting road but just by looking at
this we really get a long story about
all of the things that are going on in
this design in this interface between
the two roads that we've already
addressed with the matching Center lines
but also what we need to address with
the edges of the lanes not matching well
into the elevations of the intersecting
road so that's a really good example of
how to use section views as a design
tool to tell you a story detailed story
about what's going on
at a specific location so that completes
task 5 and that completes the additional
exercise for chapter 10
autocad civil3d 2013 essentials and this
is the additional exercise for chapter
10 so in this exercise we're going to
apply what we learned about sections and
section views and apply them to the
Madison Lane alignment and corridor so
the first thing we need to do is set up
the views of our screen we're going to
divide it into three viewports plan view
profile view and section view so to
start off doing that I'm going to go to
the View menu and this really kind of a
matter of preference how you want to
configure your viewports I'm going to do
this one here
three left that's going to split my
screen up into three viewports a big one
on the left that takes up half the
screen and then two smaller ones I'm
going to use the big one on the left as
my plan view and close down some of
these windows I don't need and in the
top right I'll make this my profile view
and then this one down here is going to
ultimately be my section editor view so
for now I'm just going to zoom into the
corridor but whenever I'm using the
section editor command I actually want
it to be housed in this viewport down
here so that's it it's pretty simple to
create the three viewports plan view
here profile view and ultimately the
section editor view will be here and
that takes care of the first task for
our next task we need to remove the
ditch on the left side of Madison Lane
between stations 1 plus 50 and 2 plus 50
so this is a similar situation to what
we had at the beginning of Jordan court
where we had a ditch and you can see
it's actually made its way back in here
again that really didn't need to be
there this is only a not even 200 feet
of ditch and as you can see the water is
just going to pool there and lay there
alongside the road so why don't we just
take that ditch away let the drainage
fall onto the road and continue along
its way so to remove that ditch we're
going to use the section editor and
actually want to use this as our section
editor so I'm going to zoom into that
area in this view click the corridor
click the section editor command and
here's where we want to create the
override that removes the ditch now in
order to do that we need to go to the
parameter editor and let me make this
nice and big because there's a lot of
information and we want to go to the
left daylight because this is the left
side of the road and we want to change
some values on the ditch to basically
make it go away we're going to change
the for slope width of the ditch to zero
and we're going to change the back slope
width of the ditch to zero those are the
two widths that define the the size of
the ditch as a lot as well as the bottom
width so we want all of those values to
be zero the ditch kind of shrinks up and
disappears and then what we want to do
is we want to apply that over a range of
stations I basically want to apply that
change from 1 plus 50 up to this station
right here which I'm really not sure
what that is but I can go the whole way
up to 2 plus 50 just to make life easy
on myself that's what I'm going to do
I'm going to go from 150 to 250 so I'll
say apply to a station range it's
already set up for 150 I'll just type in
a 250 here and click OK and it should
remove all the values for that ditch now
I can close down my section editor and I
can rebuild the corridor and you can see
the ditch has been taken away so by
using the overrides in the section
editor and applying them along a station
range we can make a change to the
corridor such as removing a ditch and
that takes care of the second task
for the third task we are asked to
create a sample line group for the
purposes of design and we want each
sample line to be located at a corridor
section so in other words each one of
these blue lines that cuts across the
corridor that's where the corridor
sections are located so I'll go to the
Home tab and click the sample lines
command it's going to ask me to pick an
alignment and I'll just hit enter and
pick Madison Lane the sources that I
want to sample the eg surface and the
Madison Lane corridor those are the two
things that I've selected I'll click OK
and now I need to tell it where the
sample lines are located and that's with
this little drop-down right here and
this is where I say from corridor
stations so I'll click that it wants to
know how wide left and right do I want
the swath width to be I'm going to
accept the default of 50 feet left and
right and click OK and now we see I'll
hit escape to finish the command we can
see the sample lines that correspond
with each corridor section on the
corridor and now just to kind of
demonstrate how you would utilize that
I'm going to create a couple of of
corridor sections to look at for design
purposes so I'll start with 0 plus 25
let's take a look at 0 plus 25 so I'll
go to my section views command and I'll
say create section view and I want to
base it on Madison lane I should have
named this sample line group design or
something that indicates that it's a
design section group or sample line
group but I'll just have to remember
that it's a sample line collection 3 and
I want to do 0 plus 25 which is this one
right here so go ahead and create the
section view using a design style and
there it is so there's my section at 0
plus 25 I can see I've got a ditch on
the right no ditch on the left and get a
sense of the shape of the lanes that she
for the ditch and even have some labels
there that show me some key elevations
on the section view and I could do that
for as many sections as I want and I can
use these these section views as a tool
for analyzing and maybe adjusting my
design so that takes care of task number
three so for the next task we are asked
to create another sample line group but
this one is going to be for sheet
creation as opposed to design so it's
going to be at even increments every 50
feet and we also want to create section
views that are arranged in sheets like
we've done for Jordan Court in in the
previous exercises so before we get too
far along with that though I want to do
some housekeeping I'm going to take my
generically named sample line collection
3 and change that to something a little
more meaningful I'm going to call it ml
design from madison lane design and then
i'm also going to go into the properties
of that sample line group and change the
styles so that we kind of make the the
sample lines disappear not completely we
just won't be able to see them in the
drawing so I'm going to change the style
of the sample lines in that group to no
display and you can see the lines go
away but the labels are left in place so
I'm going to do one other thing I'm
going to go to the Edit group labels
command and just simply remove the
labels so the sample lines are still on
the drawing you can see them listed here
we've just made it so that we can't see
them so now it'll be a little easier to
see the results of what we're about to
do so I want to create another sample
line group for Madison Lane and I want
to go in here and say by default it
wants to create additional sample lines
on the group that's already been created
I want to create a new sample on group
so I'm going to go here and I'm gonna
call this ml sheets okay for Madison
Lane sheets same things that I'm going
to sample the eg surface and the
corridor and I'm gonna pick
a different style this time road
sections that's gonna be the style for
my corridor and for my existing ground I
want that to be obviously existing and
not finished alright so that's a little
bit of style selection there and then
the most important thing is choosing
where the sample lines are going to be
located so this time instead of from
corridor stations I'm going to do by
range of stations and this will let me
do a nice even increment by going down
here and saying let's use sampling
increments and let's say 50 feet across
the board tangents curves and spirals
even though I don't have any spirals in
this alignment let's just take care of
all of them yes let's do the range start
and the range end but let's not do any
other geometric points along the
alignment so when I click OK and hit
enter to complete the command I should
see sample lines at a nice even 50-foot
increment alright so that takes care of
the sample line portion of of that task
now that the sample lines are in place I
want to create sheets for those section
views so we'll go up here to my section
views command and say create multiple
views I want to create multiple views
along Madison Lane and I want to use the
ml sheets sample line group section view
style is Road section that looks good
I'll click Next
as you can see it's kind of a wizard
configuration like we've done in the
prior exercises I'm going to go out and
pick the template from chapter 10 so
I'll go to C civil3d
essentials chapter 10 there's my
sections GWT and let's go ahead and do
40 scale click Next
next all of these settings should be
good
and I'm going to go ahead and just say
create section views put them right
above Jordan court section views and
let's see what we get everything looks
pretty good except we've got those
labels on the existing ground and to
handle those we'll click on one of the
section views and we'll go to view group
properties and we're going to take a
look at the section label so next to eg
here where it says change labels I'm
going to click Edit change that to no
labels and that'll take those existing
ground labels away and that looks very
good it looks a lot like the sections
that we have for Jordan Court and that
satisfies the requirements for task
number 4 and now for task 5 we want to
use section views once again for a
design purpose so what I'm going to do
is I want to create a section view for
one of my design sample lines now since
those are turned off and I can't see
them I'm going to access this through
prospector and under ml design I've got
my list of sample on so you can see that
first sample line right there I'm going
to select it and that's going to get
bring up my ribbon and then I'm gonna
pick sample more sources and what I want
to add to my sources is the Jordan court
finished ground surface all right I'm
gonna pick that bounce it over and now I
can see the Jordan Court finished ground
so I'll click OK you can see the even
though that sample line is not visible
it's still selected it and I can see the
grips shown there so now that the grips
are selected I'm going to create that
section view so I'll click the tool to
create the section view and I'll just
accept the defaults and place it here in
the drawing all right now we've got some
of those labels and I didn't I wasn't
really conscious of style so let me
escape
out of this command I'm gonna click one
of those labels that I kind of want to
get rid of and click Edit label group
and just remove those labels from that
surface section now I want to be able to
differentiate easily more easily between
the Jordan court surface and the other
surfaces so here we've got the sample
through the corridor of Madison Lane
here we've got a section representing
the existing ground so I'm going to go
to section properties and change the
style of that to existing ground so now
we can see the red is the existing
ground and the blue is the profile of
Jordan corridor the section of Jordan
Court and what we're looking at is right
here look at how well the crown of
Madison Lane is tying into the
centerline elevations of Jordan Court
that's the good news something we have
to be conscious of however is when you
get down to the the extreme is the edge
of the lane here and the edge of the
lane here there's a big elevation
discrepancy between the Madison Lane
elevations and the Jordan Court
elevation so we're going to have to do
something to our design to kind of warp
this Lane and swing it around up into
Jordan Court and swing this Lane down
and around into Jordan court and
actually the intersection wizard if we
utilize it does all of that for us it
handles that transition from the section
of one road into the profile of the
intersecting road but just by looking at
this we really get a long story about
all of the things that are going on in
this design in this interface between
the two roads that we've already
addressed with the matching Center lines
but also what we need to address with
the edges of the lanes not matching well
into the elevations of the intersecting
road so that's a really good example of
how to use section views as a design
tool to tell you a story detailed story
about what's going on
at a specific location so that completes
task 5 and that completes the additional
exercise for chapter 10
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