Chapter 18 – 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
18 in this exercise we're going to use
some QT o manager we're going to use
some materials for corridor sections and
we're going to do some plane production
so starting off our first task is to use
QT o manager to assign the chain-link
fence pay item to the fence around the
pond which is here and some fence along
the north side of the of the common area
here to the south so pretty simple task
we're gonna go to the analyze tab of the
ribbon and open QT o manager right click
the chain-link fence item and say assign
pay item I'm gonna move this out of the
way and just go right in and select our
fence which there's a polyline here and
a polyline here notice as I click each
one it tells me that pay item 16 is
assigned to each object and I'll press
Enter so now that that has been recorded
and captured I can do a take off and
I'll do an HTML report and just like
that it tells me that I've got 1982
linear feet of chain-link fence so that
takes care of our first task for this
exercise for the next task we've been
asked to compute materials for the
corridor along madison lane so what I'll
do is first I'll launch the compute
materials command again on the analyze
tab of the ribbon and we're doing
madison lane and a sample line group
called quantities that's the only one
provided we'll click ok because we're
using the basic road materials takeoff
criteria and it has generic names in it
that match the corridor shape names we
can click map objects with same name and
it picks them up automatically so I can
click OK the software is going to pause
for a moment it's calculating all of
this quantity
plus it's cutting additional sections
through all those materials and if I
were to go into the prospector we could
actually see those additional sections
now that the calculation is complete I
can go up here and launch the volume
volume report come in want to make sure
I pick the Select material style sheet
click OK and that's going to open my
browser give me a little warning about
scripts and I can scroll down through
and see a station by station account of
my quantities and if I go to the very
last one I can actually see how much of
each material is being is required and
the values we're seeing our area cubic
yards and cumulative so this is really
the value I'm interested in as the very
last one 136 yards asphalt 274 yards of
base one thousand seven so base and 96
yards of curb so that easily we can
compute materials from our corridor for
the final task in this exercise we're
going to create view frames and plane
and profile sheets for Madison Lea so
I'll start with the output tab where I'm
going to use the create view frames
command to create view frames from
Madison lanes so I need to make sure I
pick the correct alignment to start I
want to make sure I'm using the right
template so I'm going to browse to the
chapter 18 template chapter 18 folder
and pick the plan and profile template
and let's do 20 scale playing profile
sheets I'll click Next and I'm just
going to accept the defaults for the
rest of that information and that's
going to generate two View frames you
can see them outlined in blue here now
that the view frames are in place I can
create sheets I'll launch my create
sheets command bring that dialogue over
here where you can see it I'm just going
to accept the defaults I want to be
careful though
it's creating all of my all of my
layouts in the current drawing before I
do that earlier in the chapter we
discussed the different methods of doing
this for our purposes here in this
exercise we're just going to keep it
simple and create our two new layouts
right in this drawing when I go into
choose settings and do some of the same
changes we made in the in the first
exercise dealing with this I'm going to
change this to mean elevation I'm going
to check my profile display options and
check my styles so my design profile
looks good existing profile looks good
and I want to check my labels because I
don't want labels on the existing ground
surface profile so let me click that set
it to no labels all right so this should
that should take care of our settings
for the profile we can go ahead and
create sheets it's going to warn me that
it needs to save I'm okay with that
I'll go ahead and pick a profile origin
up here making sure I have plenty of
room and it's going to create a couple
of new profiles it also launched sheet
set manager which I've just now brought
into view and I can open one of those
sheets by double clicking it here or I
could have just clicked on the tab below
because the sheets are in this drawing
and there we can see a very nicely made
playing a profile sheet from Madison
Lane and that completes our final task
for for the exercise and that also
completes the additional exercise for
chapter 18