AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Surfaces In Multiple Files

Aug 7, 2013

How practical is it to create and manage surfaces across multiple DWG files?  One of the reasons I'm asking is some of our users are insisting their work can only done in a single file, resulting in massive DWG files and naturally, Civil3D slows to a crawl.  I'll admit I'm not a full time Civil3D user or specialist - thats not my job.  I'm reasonably certain it can be done from the most basic of research (which apparently nobody else wants to do...), but am Uncertain what the potential pitfalls are.

They complain of slowness and are requesting better computers from IT (I've talked them down to more RAM).  I'm trying to forestall a potentially nasty political situation spiraling out of control: they get better computers, others will want them as well and either get them only because of connections, or won't get them and are resentful for the perceived lack of importance.  We don't need people doing 2D schematic drawings on gaming rigs.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Sample Multiple Surfaces For Multiple Alignments

May 18, 2012

I need to figure out a way to sample multiple surfaces for multiple alignments.

Example 1: I am creating cross sections for a river dredge showing the pre-dredge bathymetry, design dredge elevation, and post-dredge bathymetry results. I have 100's of alignments that I need to sample 3 surfaces and display in profile view. Due to the clients requirements for display, using the cross section tools don't work for me, so I have resorted to using a seperate alignment for each cross section.

Example 2: Working in a subdivision with many utility alignments it would save quite a bit of time to be able to choose a group of alignments and sample multiple surfaces in just a few clicks. 

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May 16, 2012

How do I create sections that show multiple surfaces?

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Sep 8, 2013

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Apr 30, 2012

I have many surfaces overlapping and I want to create one surface with the lowest elevation for each x,y coordinate from the existing surfaces. Does autocad civil 3D have a command for this?.

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Sep 26, 2013

using CIvil3D to figure volumes.  I have a very large aerial topo from a couple years ago to compare against a topographical survey I completed this year.  No problem creating surfaces. 

Question:  In the topo's, I need to get a volume from two different areas....one area being a fill area, the other being the borrow area.  Don't want any volume data throughout the rest of the site.

Do I just create one large surface for each topo and designate boundaries somehow?  Or do I need to create multiple surfaces for each topo?  If this is the case, will I need to make sure any breaklines, etc. don't cross from one area to the other?

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Nov 28, 2012

I am creating my Final Grading surface with from 2 surfaces - a proposed road surface and a proposed grading surface.  (Note of roads within the road surface)

The issue is that when I paste the proposed road surface (that consists of several looped sections) over the proposed grading surface, the proposed grading surface within the looped road areas dissappears.

I have tried several options using boundaries for the inner looped areas on my road surface, and has altered my order of opterations for my final surface edits, and many other things also. 

I have attached an image for reference.

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Jun 26, 2013

I have 2 different surfaces (Existing Ground & Proposed Pipe Invert) that I want to have the elevations shown for in a profile data band, but I want them to show at the design profile's PVIs (Proposed Road).  Is it possible to set up a data band style that samples at one profile's geometry points but displays the elevations from these points from a different profile?  My workaround is to set the data bands to all sample from the design profile first and label over the design profile's data band but I'm hoping for a cleaner solution.  Attached is an image showing the profile view in question.

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Oct 26, 2012

I need to export a DTM for use in another package which I previously did by Extracting the Triangles, Selecting the 3D faces & Wblocking to DXF for import to the other package.

The developers of the other package have introduced an XML import which I have been trying out but when the surface is imported into the other package via XML most (but not all) of the triangles honour the original 3D faces.

The question is therefore: Does the XML output contain sufficient information to allow the other package to "join the dots" in the correct way so as to mirror the original 3D faces and thus create an exact copy of the DTM??

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Jun 8, 2012

I started with a points file which I created an existing surface called EG. I then used a number of feature line to create the gradings, grading surfaces and associated volume surfaces (compared to EG) also had other drawing elements and aerial photo in place. I had a lot of grading scenarios to do and it was all in one file. It was getting out of hand, so I duplicated the file, deleted the gradings (retained the EG surface) then added another set of new gradings and volume surfaces against EG. I did this in 4 files. So now I have multiple files that contain duplicates of the same EG surface and other features, but have unique gradings and surfaces referenced to those individual EGs.

Files all have similar structure:

+Various features (duplicated in all files)

  - base aerial photo

  - other drawing elements

+Surfaces

  - EG surface (duplicated in all files)

  - Grading A-1 surface

  - Grading A-2 surface

  - Grading A-1 volume surface

  - Grading A-2 volume surface

+Site A

  - Grading A-1

  - Grading A-2

I recognise now that I should have data shared the EG surface from 1 file (and xrefed the other common drawing elements??) but given my situation now, what is the recommend way of putting it all together? 
 
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Dec 18, 2012

Is there any way of embossing onto

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2. surfaces that are not flat, cylindrical or conical

I have tried using the “stitch surface” command but I can’t seem to get it to select .

The surface was created using the loft command, but I don’t know how to select it as a composite surface . When I am doing the emboss. Maybe it has to be done using another method besides emboss?

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Feb 16, 2012

When importing objects into Inventor, all surface objects are being joined together into 1 composite surface. What I need is multiple surfaces, or seperate surface/composite objects.

Capture 1

Shows 3 solids imported from Rhino

Each solid is a sepreate solid

Capture 2

Shows 2 solids and 1 surface composite imported from Rhino

Capture 3

Shows 1 solid and 1 surface composite imported from Rhino

1. Why is Inventor creating 1 composite from multiple non intersecting surfaces?

2. How can I avoid this from happening?

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Jun 25, 2012

I have been using the sheet set manager with very few problems for years until - you guessed it - I was upgraded to Windows 7 OS v6.1 and Civil3D 2012 IDS.

Up until then, I was able to open layouts in different drawing files through the sheet set manager while in an open file.  Now, I get an error message (see attached) and have to close the file I'm in to open the other. 

I can open files through the regular file open command and have more than one open at the same time, but it takes away the convenience of using the sheet set manager to avoid having to browse to the desired sheet layouts when copyclipping sheet layout drawing elements from one file to another.

I have studied every sheet set system variable to see if that was the problem, but could not find an answer.  I have the same problem in Civil3D 2010. It happens to new and existing sheet sets in both versions and sheet sets made before the Windows update.

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Jul 29, 2013

How to share custom projection files with multiple users?  I created a custom projection for C3D on my computer, now I need to give it to several other people.  Can't seem to find where this file is stored.

C3D - 2014,

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Jan 2, 2014

I am working on a project where I need to bring in multiple building site files from Revit as .adsk files to one Civil 3D model. The first building always imports just fine.  For any building after the first, I get the following message:

"The selected file contains a definition of a building site that is already in use."

"What would you like to do?"

"Update the definition of the existing building site (cancel the import and use the selected file to update the definition of the existing building site.)" - THIS OPTION REPLACES THE FIRST BUILDING WITH THE NEW BUILDING I HAVE SELECTED

"Browse to another file (display the file browse dialog to select a different file.)"

My team and I have tried every we can think of including the following (see attached):

Renaming the files Moving the files to different folders Importing each building site into a new file and copy and pasting into the model (this works until someone tries to import a building site, which will inevitably happen and ruin this work around)Double-checking all related settings.

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Jan 18, 2013

I have some data in the form of

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I would like to make an excel table that i can create multiple points from and make that table dynamic, ie if i edit the table the points will change.I would be labeling the points according to the different desc_# in multiple drawings

Is there any way to do this? I have messed with creating a user defined property classification and creating a new point file format, but i want that point file I imported to be dynamic, and if I change values the values will change in all my drawings.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Volume From Surfaces

Sep 6, 2012

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Feb 5, 2013

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Nov 2, 2013

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Jun 14, 2013

I'm trying to create a surface under my 'existing ground' surface. There is shallow rock where one of our projects is located and using geotechnical data I want to create a 'rock surface' at the known rock elevations. I just want this surface for visual reasons and do not want it to interact with the existing ground or pipe network.

I have 4 places along the roadway where I know the rock elevations. I created new points around each known point with the same elevation so there would be more than just four points on the surface and so I could make it the width of the road allowance. But when I look back to my profile of the road, it shows the existing profile drop to the rock surface at each place that I created points for the rock elevation. Not sure how to make it so the existing ground surface doesn't pick up the new points I added for the rock elevations.

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Oct 9, 2012

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Nov 6, 2012

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Feb 26, 2013

I have an alignement to which I have applied superelevation.

The superevation has been applied and the alignment has been annotation and it shows the change from camber to superelevation on  the curves.

However when I create a surface of my corridor it does not show the superelevation, the surface is showing a cambered alignment throughout.

I have created a new alignment, a new corridor and surface and still the same.

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Jan 14, 2011

I have recently upgraded to Civil 3D 2011 when we started receiving LiDAR data.  I have been playing around with the data a bit and have a few questions on how the data is dealt with.  It appears that when a point cloud is added to a surface, it is using the point cloud display somehow to generate the TIN.  I believe that the point cloud display is showing a percentage of points based on the maximum number of 1.5 million points.  On these particular datasets (citywide LiDAR coverage, about 2,600' x 2,600' panels), we may have 4-7 million points in each LAS file.  Is Civil 3D ignoring all points beyond 1.5 million in surface building operations?  Also, when adjusting the slider, is there any way to know which points will be displayed...or maybe the points are reduced randomly??

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May 30, 2012

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I created another surface (TIN) and pasted the existing topo surface and the proposed grading surface into it and I couldn't get any quantities.

I created another surface (TIN volume) and set the base surface as the existing surface and the comparison surface as the surface created from the grading but again could get no quantities.

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Mar 3, 2013

I created a grading and a surface for a pond that is abotu 30' away from a roaway that has a seperate surface.  What would be the best way to connect the two surfaces?  I need a uniform slope from the edge of pavement to the top of berm of the pond.

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Mar 19, 2013

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Oct 17, 2012

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How to get a nicely shrink wrapped surface or is it a matter of brute force removal of triangles etc? 

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