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Dynamic Easements – Part 3

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Cleanup and Modifying There are times we need to start and stop the easement. For example, the picture below shows the sanitary sewer crossing a right-of-way. The easement needs to stop at the right-of-way and restart on the other side. Selecting the alignment will pull up the grip editing on the easements, which will allow you to change the starting and stopping station of the dynamic easement (offset alignment). The grip edit can be snapped to the intersection of the easement and right-of-way to make the easement stop at the proper location. To restart the easement on the other side of the right-of-way, create a new offset alignment with the starting stations and the ending station at the proper location.

Dynamic Easements – Part 2

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Getting Some Style Now that we have the offset alignment representing the dynamic easement, it’s time to make an alignment style. 1. Select the offset alignment > quick properties > under style select Create/Edit 2. The alignment style pop up box will appear. Select the edit pull down and click Create New 3. The alignment style editor will pop up. For today, we are only changing four setting to create this style. a. Under information tab, change name to “Easement” b. Under display tab, change component type line color to yellow c. Under display tab, change component type line type to dash d. Under display tab, change component type line layer to easement 4. Once the setting are ready, select OK Now, the dynamic easement is ready.

Dynamic Easements – Part 1

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Creating a Dynamic Easements I want to start off by saying that dynamic easement is not a standard tool in Civil3D. Using a new tool added to Civil3D 2010 called offset alignments we can create easements that will update with your alignment. For the example today, we are creating an easement for a sanitary sewer line. The alignment has already been created and represents the centerline of the sanitary sewer. 1. Deploy the offset alignment command Home > Create Design > Alignment > Create Offset Alignment 2. Select the alignment to offset and the Create Offset Alignment box will pop up. The pop up box gives the ability to make changes like: a. Station range b. Number of offsets for both right and left c. Incremental offset both right and left d. Site e. Alignment style f. Alignment layer g. Alignment label set Settings we are going to use today: a. Deselect station range from start to end b. Keep number of offset to 1 on both right and left c. Keep increm

How to extract 2D AutoCAD geometry from an Autodesk Inventor DWG Drawing File.

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An article by Paul Munford ( The CAD Setter Out ) For CAD Clues Blog.  If you regularly exchange drawing files with a Client, colleague or Contractor who is using Autodesk Inventor, then you may be interested in this simple trick for Extracting 2D geometry from an Inventor DWG file. To try this out, you will need: · An Autodesk Inventor DWG file · AutoCAD! TIP : You will need an Inventor DWG file – not an Inventor IDW file. This is Inventor’s own drawing file format and cannot be opened by AutoCAD.   Our DWG File open in Inventor. OK, how do we go about it? The process is simple. First we will open the Inventor DWG up in AutoCAD, and then we will hunt out the Information we need. The Autodesk Inventor Sheet browser – showing the Views we wish to use in AutoCAD. Inventor DWG Weirdness. Inventor DWG files open up in AutoCAD just fine. You will see that the Paper Space layout looks just like Inventor’s Sheet layout. Our DWG File open in AutoCAD. H

30 Clues in 30 Days Rundown - #30n30

1. Quick Access Toolbar 2. Osnap Keyboard Shortcut 3. Drag and Drop 4. Bpoly 5. Action Recorder 6. Set Bylayer 7. Zoom Factor 8. Layer Walk 9. 3D View Control 10. Cycle Viewport 11. Selection Cycling 12. Cycle Drawing 13. Saving Workspace 14. Display Order 15. Fields 16. Fillet @0 17. Reverse 18. Group 19. Layer Isolate 20. Layer Unisolate 21. Block to Xref 22. Layer Dialog Mode 23. Generate Hatch Boundaries 24. Maximizing Viewports 25. Object Isolation 26. Image Frame 27. Change Space 28. Anchor tools 29. Full Screen 30. Color Scheme