AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Strategies To Interchange Designs
Sep 17, 2013
You have the main alignment and you have to design an out-lane alignment. Standards describes the wedge and parallel lane lengths, depending on speed, road type and grades.By last you have to perform a "connection" between main and out alignments, basically an interpolation.So you have 3 areas/tasks to do:
1.- Wedge and parallel definition
2.- Locate the area in which main alignment and out alignment are pseudo parallel. This area is located between the intersection of lanes widths and the point defined by intersection of shoulders.
3.- The area between this last point and a singular point (defined by standards) in which we can consider the alignments are fully independent.
4.- The area between point 2 and the point in which vertical profile and superelevation are independent for out alignment.
You have to define a lot of things, profile, superelevation, transitions, etc..As far as I have seen, there is not any tool to do all of this.
I need to make interchange shoulder widening for my sub assembly.
there is picture where I have the shoulder which I want to add target offset in corridor to make offset of the edge of shoulder. but I don't know how to write expression that when top link will offset slope will move with it and the bottom link will connect in crossing of this two points.
i know the traditional way of doing this is just export to autocad then open with inroads and do grading stuff again.are there any easier ways? i think it's no but boss wants to get a confirmation on the internet.like grading objects to inroad grading and corridor to inroads corridor.
I want to create a small custom set of extended uppercase characters for a company logo.
I am starting with H&FJ's Idle wild and then extending it even further. I'm initially squashing it vertically to 75%. This looks as bad as you'd imagine - the contrast of the letter forms is distorted (the horizontal lines look too thin compared to the vertical lines). However my earlier rough attempt to mimic the original contrast (ratio of width of vertical lines to horizontal lines is approximately 7:6) created something that I'm fairly happy with.
(Note that whilst I have now purchased Idle wild, I initially copied sample text from the H&FJ website and used Illustrator's trace function to create what is shown below, which explains the rather random bezier point placement. Incidentally I actually quite like some of the quirks this introduced to the letter forms - in particular the terminals of the S and the top of the A)
The word has only seven characters - ACHORST
Some of these (HT) are easy to fix manually. But in particular the round letters (COS) require a bit more thought.
I'm pretty sure back 15 years ago I could have got most of the way there quickly with CorelDRAW. From memory there was an option to use strokes ('outlines' in Corel terminology) which weren't uniform height and width. So in this instance I'd create a 'nib shape' for the stroke which was much taller than it was wide, and applying this to the letterforms would restore the contrast to roughly that of the original. (I know that typographers don't simply do something like this to create different weights of a typeface, but for my purposes I suspect it would get me most of the way there and then I could tweak it visually.)
The only wasy I can see to alter the stroke shape in Illustrator is via the Profile dropdown in the stroke dialog options, but this seems to be purely for 'artisitc' effect and entirely inappropriate for my purposes.
My supervisor needs to view the autodesk inventor designs (I create) in his PC without installing the whole inventor package. Its something like using eDrawings to view designs created with solidworks.
Ok, so I understand how to take my Inventor designs and make them into a .adsk file for use as BiM info. Without having revit how in the world am I supposed to check what I'm sending out to my clients? It goes against everything I've ever learned to just make a file and send it out blindly without checking it.
Is this really how Autodesk thinks this process should work?
any web design templates theyd like coded and turned into sites for free, Im trying to really learn html/css and would love some nice new designs to work with, its all for free just an opportunity for me to learn more about coding etc.
So last night I created some designs using the symbols provided in Illustrator. And when I opened the file this morning to continue working on it, all my designs were gone instead I was left with just a blank canvas. Is there is a chance of getting back my designs?
how to make beautiful floral designs. Whenever i try to design it takes hours to design it even when i am tracing from old ones. Especially these spiral designs. what are the calculations for designing these beautiful floral designs quickly?
I have attatched an image of what I am trying to accomplish. It's a small image which is repeated horizontally to create a footer. I want to know how to create these small designs.
Basically, how are these kinds of sites made? I mean the detail and the overall layout and design looks amazingly painstaking. I can design websites fairly well (or so i think :| ) but nothing close to the amount of detail seen on that site. Are websites like these made by hand from scratch? Photoshop perhaps? A 3D app? or what?
how can i export my xara t shirt designs so that they can be imported into coreldraw, converted to outlines and mirrored so that the vinyl cutter can cut them?
i have been using xara as my main graphics tool for years, and i enjoy it. however, the person who's cutter i use only knows coreldraw as that is what is preferred with the Roland gx-24 vinyl cutters. i dont want to have to learn coreldraw.
i have loaded my designs as gifs, jpegs and bmps into corel, but even after using the 'trace' feature on corel, all the lines are not perfect like they are in xara. the cutter cuts the lines in a jagged way, and the curves are not smooth. save my xara designs as .cmx or .svg. i did that and tried importing into corel and i got an 'I/O Error', so that didnt work.
the only way i can get the straight cut lines is if i load my fonts into corel, and re-create my design in corel, which i just dont have the time for.
I am trying to create a Bar Graph on illustrator with certain designs. For Score A, I click the Score A bars and head to Graphs > Columns to change the bars to 'Repeating' design with my spider-man picture.
As you can see my Score A COMPLETELY disappears. why Illustrator just wont let me change the red bars to my design?
I'm a designer for a clothing company and every time I make a design I have to then put that design onto lots of different blank product templates (t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts etc) and every colour for every product (pink, blue, red green etc) manually. This can be very time consuming. Is there a way in Photoshop I can get it to automatically add, resize and place the design onto everey product template in every colour in the correct position in Photoshop and automatically save it to a certain location.
I have tried a number of different methods however I cannot seem to get rid of this problem. Every time I put together banners or any graphics/designs for that matter, whenever I save them and then display them I always end up with a slight blur. I am trying to get a really crisp finish but can never seem to get it right, please see attached photos .
I'm having a hard time exporting my designs to jpeg files. I use the export command, but after I hit ok, it doesn't save? I used Google chrome on windows 7 ultimate platform, with 8 gigs of ram with 500 mb of hard drive space.
I have an original copy of Corel Xara that I purchased many years ago.
On the disc is a huge amount of clip art and other items, I tried to incorporate these into the Designs Gallery but whilst I could get the graphics to work I could not get the images to show in the drop downs against the icons in the designs gallery. I just got a grey blank panel with the graphic name. This means that I still have to search through the manual to find a specific graphic.
Fortunately I also have the 500'ish page manual (approx 100 per page) for the clip art/symbols/fonts/etc..etc.
I may not use many of the graphics but it would be good to be able to install selected images with the pictures.
I used Photoshop Elements 4 for many years and upgraded to 10 about a year ago; I recently downloaded Photoshop CS6 for the trial period. In my projects I regularly use the ready-made frame and border designs that are available in the “content” section of PSE. I thought that a more extensive program like CS6 would offer a larger variety of ready-made frames, but I have been unable to find any at all. (PC, Win7 OS, PS CS6 vers. 13.0 x64)
I'm starting some designs to be cut out of vinyl and wanted to put registration marks on the drawing so I can line different cuts up. How these work. How do I put registration marks in?
I create the designs on an art board that matches the screen size of whatever device I'm designing for, for instance 320x480px. The problem comes when I want to read the font sizes used in the design in order to apply them in the actual mobile app. Illustrator seems to use a strict 1px = 1pt rule. That means a 12pt font in Illustrator is always 12 pixels. This is however not true on the mobile device, which uses some other ratio. This means I have to "guess" the font sizes, trial-and-error style, which is ridiculous.
I've tried downsizing the art board, to something like 240x360 px, and then the font sizes do better represent those on the mobile device, but then all the graphics does not. So that's a no go.
Is there any way I can define in Illustrator the ratio between pixels and points? It seems Illustrator only supports a default 1 pixel = 1 point setting? (In Photoshop, for instance, this is not a problem as you can set the intended physical size of the document independently from the pixel grid. Any way to do this in Illustrator? Does Illustrator simply assume pixels is a physical unit, like inches and points?
