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Date: December 26, 2005 Instructor: Danny Counts Level: Intermediate Category: Autodesk Civil 3D
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3. Also be sure to change the Proposed Surface style to Standard for the time being.
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3. On the Information tab, change the name to Finished Floor Label then switch to the Layout tab and select the ellipses button next to Text Contents as shown in Figure 3
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4. Ensure the Text Component Editor looks like the following dialog shown in Figure 4. You will need to remove the current text in the window since it has a precision of 3 and you want a precision of 2 decimal places. Also add the FF= as a prefix and add a tick mark indicating feet as a suffixthen hit OK twice to get back to the Add Labels dialog box. Figure 4
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5. Select the Add button and proceed to select the surface named Proposed Surface, then begin to add a Finished Floor elevation label inside of each of the building areas. The finished labels should look like the following in Figure 5 Figure 5
6. To remove the Point Node dynamically from the entire drawing, simply go to the Settings tab of the Toolspace, and expand the collection as shown in Figure 6 and right click on the Standard Point Style and select Edit Once in the Point Style Standard dialog box, select the Marker tab and select the second option from the left under custom marker style as shown in Figure 6 then hit OK.
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Figure 6
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represented the highest corner elevation, then I would se the Finished Floor using the next few tools to 1139.10 approximately Figure 7
3. Next go to Grading?Elevation Editor and select your first building finished floor which is the internal offset, select Yes to convert the entity to a feature line. You will then be prompted by the Grading Elevation Editor Palette. From the toolbar, select the Raise/Lower button as shown in Figure 8 then type in a value in the value editor of 1139.10 and hit Enter to set that value to all corners then select the Green Check Mark to close the interface.
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Figure 8
4. To add this feature to the Proposed Surface, expand the collection under the Prospector tab in the toolspace for the Proposed Surface. Right click on the Breaklines area as shown in Figure 9 following by selecting the new finished floor. When prompted to add breaklines, just hit OK to the dia log and then select the finished floor. You will automatically see the contours update as shown in Figure 10 ideally, there should not be any contours inside of the building area. Figure 9
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Figure 10
5. Proceed using the Elevation Editor to add an absolute elevation to each of the building pads, then add each of those breaklines to the Proposed Surface. 6. The finished product would look something like the following in Figure 11 provided you have applied a surface style that shows 3D Faces while in 3D with a shaded mode applied
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Figure 11
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2. Right click on the Proposed Surface in the prospector and set it to Rebuild Automatic 3. Move one of the building finished floors up 0.25 feet by using the Move command and pick any start point with a displacement of @0,0,0.25 4. Notice how the Finished Floor Elevation automatically updates and the contours automatically recalculate. 5. If you did not close the composite volumes palette previously, you can select the Recompute Volumes icon to show the updated earthwork as shown in Figure 14 Figure 14
6. To combine surfaces, use the AutoCAD Copy command to copy the Existing Grade surface by graphically selecting the surface and picking any start point followed by using a displacement of @0,0,0 then be sure to hit Escape
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**NOTE: Be sure to pick up the correct surface by selecting an appropriate contour of the Existing Grade surface 7. You will notice in your prospector that you have another surface called Existing Grade (1), right-click on the surface in the Prospector and go to Properties, under the Information Tab, change the name to Final Surface and hit OK. 8. Make sure the Final Surface collection is expanded within the Prospector of the Civil 3D toolspace then right click on Edits and select Paste Surface as shown in Figure 15 Figure 15
9. When prompted to choose a surface to paste, choose the Proposed Surface as shown in Figure 16 Figure 16
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10. Finally, change the surface style for all surfaces (except Final Surface) to a surface style of Standard and ensure the Surface Style of Final Surface is Borders and Contours. You can do this through the Prospector. The result should be the following in Figure 16 Figure 16
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