Tip of the Day

Hi everyone. Sorry I wasn’t about to post more this weekend. I ended up having a great  New Years weekend. Anyway for the past few weeks I have been having out of memory issues with one of the subdivisions drawing that I have been working on. My drawing kept crashing when I tried to rebuilding my corridors. It got to a point I was not able to rebuild my corridor or surfaces. So last week I figured out how to get around this issue. I have provided the problem and solution below.
Work Computer Info:
2.6 ghz , 3.5 gb memory, windows xp, C3D 2011 (32 bit), 3 GB Switch,
Drawing info:
2 miles of street corridors, 3 intersections, 3 cul-de-sacs, and 2 roundabouts
14 mb drawing, 6 profiles, 4 surfaces (100 acres)
Problem: Computer runs out of memory and crashes. I get the “Civil 3d out of memory” message when I try to rebuild my corridor or surfaces. Drawing has no errors. All automatic rebuild for corridors and surfaces has been turned off.
Solution: I finally decided to make all surfaces as No Display, froze the corridor layer. At this point all I can see was my profiles and alignments. I rebuilt my corridor with no problems. Then I rebuilt my surfaces.
Now with he 64 bit C3D 2011 version, I wouldn’t” had this problem, but not every company has the budget for upgrades, which is perfectly understandable with todays economy. Anyways, I hope this will help others that have faced this same issue. Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to make comments, request, or click on the options (interesting, cool, funny) below this post.

Customizing Your Quick Properties

Good morning every. I will post part 2 of corridor tonight. This morning I will show you how to customize your quick properties. For those of you that don’t use the quick properties I highly recommend you try it a few times. Mine is always on because I like to make changes on the fly. Quick properties make possibly to make quick changes to objects.

When you click on an object, the default properties for that object appears such as style, name, description, and layer. Lets say I want to know more about the object and have the capabilities to make more changes.

1. right click on your quick properties icon on the status bar and select setting.

2. In your drafting settings dialog box change the minimum number of rows from 5 to 15 (Palette behavior) This will allow quick properties to display a number of default rows.

3. Select an object such as a C3D pipe structure. Click on the customize button at the top right in the quick properties.   (As you can see my quick properties displays more rows of property information.)

4. Here I have the ability to add more property information about my object to the quick properties. If you want to add more objects on your list click on the edit button at the top right  corner of your list. (pencil icon at top)

5. The edit object type list dialog box will appear. Here you can select more featured objects you want to ability to show properties for. For example I also added Raster Image, surface, tables, corridors, and block reference. Once you add more feature objects you will have to assign the default property information to appear. Once you are done you can select apply.

I personally think using the quick properties will help you save time. One thing I have notice is that if you regular properties dialog box is open and left open, it tends to lag my drawings because every time you select an object it is refreshing or regen while it pulls up the properties of that object. Anyways thank yall for stopping by. Hope yall have a great day.

Corridoring a Roundabout Part 1

Hi everyone. So after playing around the intersection feature and roundabouts I came up with many different ways to corridor roundabout. I think we can all agree that every roundabout will unique in its own way. There are many stipulations that influence the design  of the roundabouts, such as traffic flow, ADA, HOA, and drainage flows. Anyways, what I will show yall is just ideas of what you can do to design and corridor your roundabout. Just remember that the more assembly you use to create your corridor, the more memory it will have to use to regen and rebuild you corridor and surface.

PROCEDURES:

1. Create centerline alignments for the left and right side of the roundabout. Begin your alignments at the begin of your PC of your curb returns. Since my main road travels South to North I designed my roundabout alignments to follow the same directions to make it simple.

2. Now create profiles for both alignments. The beginning and ending elevation will need to match the main roads elevation.

3. Now we need to create assembles that we can use for this sections. As you can see below, I only used 3 types of assemblies.   (I used 2% cross slopes for my pavement)

4. Now we need to create 4 polylines that our road section can target to. These 4 polylines need to start and end at the centerline of our main road. These polylines will be the inside/outside edge of pavement for our road, which we will target.

5. Next will build our corridor. Go into your corridor properties and created 2 baselines (Left and right roundabout) For the right side alignment use the roundabout right assembly Then for the left alignment we will used the roundabout left and intersection assemblies.

As you can see I targeted the polylines.

I didn’t corridor the center of my roundabout because my surface will grade across automatically. (Plus the center is grass)

So that concludes part 1. In Part 2 I will use the intersection feature to corridor the remaining part of the corridor. In Part 3 we will work on the surface editing. Thank you stopping by. Please feel free to make comments or email me.

AutoCAD WS App for IPhone & IPad

I don’t know everyone knows this but there this an AutoCAD app for a few smartphones. This can come in handy when you need to up a drawing at meeting or site visit. In addition, this can come in handy for a surveyors. I provided helpful links below. As far as I know the IPhone and Ipad are the only applications that support the AutoCAD WS app.

AutoCAD WS
AutoCAD WS Tutorials
ITunes App Store
Civil Engineering Calculation
Autodesk AutoCAD WS
Autodesk - AutoCAD WS

Christmas Posts

I will be doing a new post every day starting tomorrow till the 1st. This is my xmas gift to all my followers and viewers.

My Website is Now Mobile

Hi everyone. I just wanted to let everyone know that my blog website is now mobile. You can now view my website with most smart phones. I am currently working on a new post for tomorrow that a few of you will be interested in. I won't say what it is yet lol.  I have also added a link for AU mobile below. I have also posted stats from my website which I found very interesting. Anyways I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend and college football bowl mania.

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