AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Designing Land Fill Expansion Cap
Apr 22, 2013
I am fairly new to civil 3d (currently using 2012) and have been tasked with designing a proposed landfill cap. The end goal i am looking to achieve is to dertermin the amount of fill that can fit within a footprint. If approved i would then design a haul road and swales. I understand the basics of grading however i have run in to a few issues while attempting this. Let me describe what i have tried so far.
-Obtained existing contours and created a surface out of this.
-Obtained proposed footprint extents
-Attempted "grade to elevation" using the footprint to grade up to an elevation using a 3:1 slope. Learned this tool does not work as i expected and abandoned this idea
-Attempted "grade to surface" using a 3:1 slope and a top footprint with an assigned elevation.
The final step i believe is creating what i want however the surface is not very "clean". Here is an example of what i mean; [URL]....... Is my feature line not simple enough or is my existing surface perhaps too complex?
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Aug 11, 2013
I'm trying to design an a4 and a3 poster; and I'm looking for the dimensions to fill in to the canvas sizing tool....
I keep finding the dimensions but I'm confused as to what I am to have the resolution bar/ option set at? I want the posters dpi to be 300 or 400.
Also what size should the file be .mb wise?
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Jan 22, 2013
OK, I just did a new install of Civil 3D on a clean machine, were might I find the XML Reporting for 2013 so that I can edit the format and percision of the reports.
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Nov 1, 2013
Last week I could import xml files just fine. Now when I go to import a xml I get
"_AeccLandXMLIn Unknown command "AECCLANDXMLIN". Press F1 for help."
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Oct 24, 2012
what happens when we try to export corridor to Land XML file? Do we get design cross sections that surveyors can import in the equipment? I need to export my cl alignment with the design cross sections.
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Aug 23, 2011
When converting Land Desktop Points to Civil 3D, it doesn't display point labels, descriptions, elevations, or point numbers. How do I correct this?
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May 8, 2012
I would like to export feature lines out as land xml file. Can this be done in Civil 3D or is there another work around.
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Oct 30, 2013
I brought a site into a drawing by LandXML which had 35 feature lines in it. How do you get the actual linework of the feature lines to show up in your drawing? It shows them in the site but the linework is not there.
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Dec 20, 2013
I am trying to find where the formatting is for the General Legal Description bearings. I am currently getting an output of NORTH 00° 12' 33" EAST, but would like to eliminate the spaces in the DMS: NORTH 00°12'33" EAST. This is also the case with the delta angle for curves. When I run the Metes and Bounds report, the bearings appear without the spaces. I think that I have changed it before, but I have switched employers since editing the files.
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Dec 2, 2013
When I work on a site I need to identify several different situations and organizing those situations is getting hard, how do you do it?
The land usually has multiple soil types, a max of 4 types A, B, C, D
I also need to track the impervious, grass and tree areas going to an unknown number of outfalls
The impervious area can be broken down into structures, roadway, parking lots, sidewalks and other
Also you need to have this information for your existing conditions and your impervious conditions.
Usually I just delineate everything and hatch them with a layer like C-IMPV-A for proposed impervious soil type A
I have also tried creating parcels to represent the areas delineated, but when you get a couple hundred parcels it gets confusing.
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Mar 13, 2012
When we try to open/save a file that was started in Land Desktop, we get significant performance slowdowns, lockups, and crashes in Civil 3D 2011. Most of these files only contain simple linework, labels, etc. (no Land Desktop surfaces, alignments, profiles created in project).
We've tested purge, purge regapps, audit, recover, Export to AutoCAD, and AECOBJEXPLODE (which produces errors). WBLOCK is not really an option in this case because we may have to reference multiple projects back to these original Land Desktop files.
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Oct 9, 2013
When I try to open a LDD file with C3D, the file locks up and won't open. It appears to happen only when the LDD file has an alignment defined.
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Mar 23, 2013
I need to determine a limit of rock cut for a land development project. I have created surfaces for my Existing Grade and Top of Rock. Is there any way to determine the limit of rock cut within 25 ft of the existing ground, the volume of rock cut, and show the limit of rock cut on my plan view?
I could drop the Existing Grade elevations by 25 feet, but then how would I create a separate Surface from the intersection of the lowered Existing Grade surface and the Top of Rock Surface?
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Apr 25, 2012
I am trying to find a volume of land cutting filling at particular level?
I import point file in surface 1
How to make surface 2 for particular level ..
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Nov 26, 2012
I had inserted a Land Desktop drawing containing points in to a C3D 2012 drawing. There was a small difference in coordinates. I used Autocad move and rotate to adjust. This was fine because I only needed a visual reference. Now someone wants the information and I need to convert the Aecc points to Civil cogo points.
The problem is that the convertldtpoints command doesn't use the location of the point marker as the coordinates for the converted points. It uses the Northing-Easting stored in the AECC_Point object. Those are the pre-adjustment coordinates.
Civil 3D 2012 SP 2.1
Dell Precision T7400
Xeon CPU 3.16 GHz
Nvidia Quadro FX 4600
12 GB RAM
Win 7 Pro, 64-bit
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Jun 24, 2013
I'm using C3D 2013. I received a survey drawing (unknown version) from a third party. I tried both xref'ing and inserting as block into my drawing and it was over 7,100' SW from my site. BUT when I copy from 0,0,0 in his drawing and paste 0,0,0 in my drawing, it lands on my site. If I xref my drawing into his drawing, it lands on his survey information. Why doesn't his drawing land on my site when I xref or insert as block?
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Aug 15, 2012
Typically at my company we rotate our drawing orientation under the Projects - Drawing Setup - Orientation. Rotate the drawing to a known basis of bearings. Then we label the boundary and the bearings are rotated to match the basis of bearings without having to rotate the drawing in model space. Just reciently my labels havne't been holding the orientation. So when I add a static or dynamic label the bearing reads as though my orientation is due north. BUT, when I loook at the line priperties, the bearing is correct, as it has held the orientation.
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Oct 3, 2013
why the label command does not work in the 2007 LandDesktop ...Instead I just get the error "AEC_CIVIL_ NONASSOCAUTOLABEL".
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Apr 2, 2012
Another collaboration question so you have a compressed design program and want the drainage to be designed while the finshed surface is yet to be completed.
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Jun 10, 2005
I am currently undertaking a project creating A1 posters displaying numerous archive pictures from of where I work.
I have got the poster design etc sorted and all is going well.
To each archive pic I'm using I am adding a small off-white border much as a lot of old photo's have. The method I have been using to do this is simple. I have created a large document with my off-white paper texture covering the whole area, using this document I perform the following steps
1) drag archive pic into my off-white document
2) create a selection slightly bigger all round than the pic
3) copy the background and paste it to a new layer
4) link the new layer to the pic layer
5) merge the linked layers and rename resulting layer suitably.
This technique works perfectly for what I want though is somewhat time consuming. As such I have created an action so all I have to do is drag each archive pic into my document and run the action.
This is where I am having a bit of a problem. as each archive pic is a different size I needed to think of an automated way to make the selection I desired. To do this I used the following steps in the action:
1) using the magic wand, select the transparent area of the archive pic layer, thus selecting everything except the pic
2) invert the selection so the pic is selected
3) expand the selection by 16 pixels
4) repeated step 3 (this is due to the size of the pics I'm using.
This works ok, but I want sharp corners, but when using the expand selection tool, the corners become rounded off, can anyone think of a way around this?
At the end of the day I can use the action very quickly put a border round each pic and then I'll just have to either crop them so the corners are sharp or something, which won't take too long, but it would be nice to not have to do this.
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Aug 17, 2012
How to achieve this effect of the light spurring out like this in photoshop?
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Feb 3, 2011
I'm a GP2 modder and as of now I'm using just PDN for edeting cars and stuff. GP2 has its own pallette of 256 colors.
Is it possible to load a *.pal-file into PDN? And is there a awy to expand the color-pallette shown in the color window? Is it also possible to save .*bmp with one special 256 pallette?
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Mar 9, 2014
I've made a pattern brush that I'm using to simulate a woods line for a boardgame map:
Shown above is the unstroked bounding box as well. To use this brush, I draw an outline of a woods mass with the pencil tool, then apply the brush and Expand Appearance. At that point I'm hoping the brush sections will join into one closed path so that I can fill it with a woodsy green, but instead the fill gets applied to each section of brush independently:
The join points seem fine - it's not like the two ends of the brush don't line up at all: EDIT - Actually, that's not just one point in the middle there - that's the ends of both paths lying almost on top of each other. It's possible to separate the two and then ctrl-J join them. Problem is, I want that single path automatically.
So how to get Illustrator to treat the resulting path as one closed path instead of a compound path?
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May 14, 2011
How do I get it to get bigger as it goes outward? I see up top where it says "spiral expansion factor" but it is light gray so I can't use it.
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Nov 8, 2013
I am quite new with autoCAD and am catching up pretty well but the problem now is this. I need to make a building plan for a land measuring 100 x 75 ft but I do not know how to draw the scale on my work space using autocad 2012.
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Mar 12, 2012
I have bearings and distances but I am wondering if using PLIN is the best method to draw parcels in AutoCad Map 2012. I have a layer of the Townships, Ranges and Sections that I hope to align with the drawings. Most of the time it looks okay meaning they line up and for the most are where they are suppose to be but ever so often I have problems.
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Nov 6, 2012
I'm trying to bind a site survey produced in Land Autodesk to my drawing, however when I try I get this error message:
'Some objects in specified Xref(s) failed to bind' I've tried purging the survey prior to binding, but have had no success.
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Nov 22, 2011
How to connect isohypses to make 3d land view (AutoCAD)
Here is attach of file [URL]....
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Feb 8, 2012
I'm currently using Autocad 2012 to design a land layout consisting of contour lines, roads, a restaurant, 2 parking lots, 4 little shops, a common area, and a walking path. The thing is, for the class I need to present my ideas in a better fashion than just looking at a 2D schematic from Autocad. I'm looking for the best program to use to easily construct walls for the shops, have car models in the parking lots, make the grass green, etc, and be able to almost create an animation walking through the site.
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Dec 5, 2012
I need to create a cut and fill. the fill will required to have riprap at 1.5m depth.I have tried using diferents assemblies:
BasicSideSlopeCutDitch and also DaylightMultiIntercept but I can't get results. Maybe I am not using the right parameters?
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Dec 1, 2013
I would ask a question about the Cut and Fill Volumes reports in Civil 3D.
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