Chapter 11 – AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Essentials – The Essentials and Beyond

hello my name is Eric Chappell author of
autocad civil3d 2013 essentials and this
is the additional exercise for Chapter
eleven so as you know in Chapter eleven
we've been talking about section Styles
section view styles and annotation so
we're gonna do a little bit more of that
in this additional exercise and we're
going to address some some things with
the madison lane section views so our
first task is actually broken into five
parts so we want to get into the section
views and the section view group and the
sections for madison lane and apply some
changes to their appearance so i'm gonna
come down here in this particular file
this is where the sections and sheets
are located for madison lane and the
first part of the first task is to
arrange the section views using the
bottom-up left-to-right with grid group
plot style a lot of the things that
we're gonna do in this first task in
fact I think all of them are going to be
handled within one command so I'm going
to click on a section view to bring up
my contextual ribbon I'm gonna go to
view group properties and I think
everything we need to do all 5 sub parts
of this task are going to be done in
this view group properties command the
first one is to change the group plot
style and we'll find that right on the
section views tab of this dialog box you
can see the column here so I'll click
that and we want to do bottom-up left to
right with grid that's our group plot
style so let's kind of do these one at a
time and click OK after each one so
there we see the bottom up left to right
with grid it went ahead and updated the
layout automatically and you can see
that now everything fits on one sheet so
that's pretty cool the other change we
want to make is the section view itself
so let me go back to view group
properties and on the sections tab
actually I want to go back to section
views again and we're looking at this
style column here now this first row
works the same way if I if I change this
first value
it changes everything beneath but then I
can also go to the individual values for
different section views and change them
kind of like an override I want to do
all of them so where it says Road
section now I want to change that to
design one v no grid and if you remember
from earlier one V means a vertical
exaggeration of one which is no vertical
exaggeration I said well click OK that's
going to change the appearance of the
section views a little bit click OK
again and you can see it takes away the
grid as it should because the grid is
contained within the sheet the next
change we need to do is take away the
bands so again now here because my grid
is gone I have to click on the outline
of the section view to select it so I'll
go back to view group properties and
where it says band set I'll click the
ellipsis button there and as it is right
now there are no bands but just to just
to complete the exercise the way it's
laid out I'm going to import the no
bands band set but really there are
already no bands there so one that step
is actually already taken care of next
we want to apply a label set for the
rock so again I'll click the section
view go to view group properties and
this time we'll go to the sections tab
because I want to do something with an
individual section across all of the
section views I'll find their line
labeled rock and go to edit labels and
we've got a label set called rock that
will add some labels show the depth of
rock or the elevation of the rock at
various locations along the section
finally we want to take this appearance
of the corridor section and change it to
the presentation code set style which if
I remember correctly has some hatching
in it and some things like that so again
we'll go to view group properties and
I'll go to my sections tab there's my
Madison Lane corridor and I want to
change the style to presentation
and there you can see the change we've
got the little bit hatching we've got
the line work drawn I think this might
have some line weight associated with it
so I'll turn on the line weight feature
and we can see the heavy line across the
top the green line indicating the get
the grass strip and so on alright so
that satisfies all of the requirements
for task number one task number two is
pretty easy it just simply says to
update the group layout after you've
made the preceding changes now we've
been clicking okay after each change so
I think a lot of what we've been doing
has already been updated but just to be
sure I'm gonna click one of the section
views in the group and then go up here
to update group layout so let's see if
any changes take place yeah there was
some change there it was able to
compress them down a little bit probably
because of a change to the the section
view style or the labeling that we used
but in any case we're able to fit some
more sections into a smaller area so
that takes care of the second task for
this exercise for the final task we want
to call out the change in the cross
section that results from the bus pull
off so then go back to plan view and if
you recall we have this little area
right here for buses to pull off and
like like school children off or pick
them off or what have you and what we
want to do is is call attention to that
in the section views to let the
contractor know that there's a change in
the road geometry and provide some
details so that the contractor can build
it properly and we can see by the sample
lines that there are two sections that
actually show this change 2 + 50 + 3 + 0
0 3 + 50 is beyond the change 200 is
before it so we've got those two section
views that are affected so if we zoom
into 2 plus 50 for example we notice
that the right side is a little bit
wider alright so we want to call
attention to that and we want to give
specific geometric information
about where exactly that is so what I'm
going to do is call up my add labels
command and I'm going to label a a
section view and I'd like to do an
offset elevation label these Styles look
good so I'll use those I'll click Add
select my section view remember the grid
is not part of the section view it's
part of the sheet so I have to click the
edge here and then where it says to pick
a point I'm going to snap to the end
point right here on the section itself
and that's going to pop a label in there
now to make it a little easier to look
at I'm going to drag the label off take
advantage of its drag State and here we
can see that the edge of the pavement is
9 and not nine and a half but seven and
a half feet off of what it normally is
the lane widths are typically 12 feet
it's nineteen point five feet wide in
this area because again we're widening
for the bus pull off so let's do the
same thing for Station three plus zero
zero I'll click Add once again select
the section view snap to the edge of
pavement drag that off to the side and
now you can see that we actually are at
an additional 12 feet off so that pull
off is a full 12 feet in width plus the
12 feet of the lane itself which gives
us an offset of 24 feet plus we're
sloping down at two percent which is
going to drop the elevation of that edge
to 191 point O to 191 point four six in
this case so we've called attention to
that change in the road geometry we've
given the contractor or the reviewer
additional information about how to
construct that part of the road and that
satisfies our third task and that's the
end of the additional exercise for
chapter 11