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Test your knowledge and apply what you have learned about externally referenced drawings and documents, as well as the tools for collaborating with others. The practice exercise is accompanied by a dataset to work through the example. The solution is also provided.
Exercise
Transcript
00:00
This is the solution video for collaboration and working with external data.
00:05
In
00:05
a
00:06
there are many possible ways to approach any given task and what is
00:09
best and most intuitive for one user may not be for another.
00:13
These solutions videos demonstrate just one set of workflows that
00:16
could be taken when working through these practice exercises.
00:20
They are not intended to be step by step instructions but rather
00:23
a guided tour of one user's approach and rationale in completing this exercise
00:31
in this civil grading drawing.
00:35
The reference palette shows two X
00:37
refs are attached,
00:40
the site reference
00:42
should have its own nested reference that isn't showing
00:47
this is likely the result of the reference type being incorrect.
00:52
This is resolved by opening the X site drawing
00:55
and changing the reference type of the X topo
00:57
reference.
01:13
When working with references, the tree view can be useful
01:18
in showing the relationship between references and nested references.
01:23
Open the X design drawing
01:30
and edit the basin
01:32
note
01:33
in the up left corner.
01:35
We wanna add a field to this
01:38
that is linked to the yellow poly line perimeter around the basin
01:42
and shows the area
01:44
in square feet.
01:55
A conversion factor is applied to change the area from square inches to square feet.
02:18
While in the X design drawing,
02:20
compare it with a previous version
02:23
of that drawing.
02:27
Exporting a point in time snapshot
02:30
of the comparison
02:31
can be useful for tracking changes that have been made
02:57
back in the grading sheet
02:59
attach a PDF underlay
03:05
by presetting the scale and rotation.
03:08
Placing the PDF
03:10
is simply a matter of picking a location
03:22
set the PDF frame variable
03:24
so that the frames are visible
03:27
but will not plot
03:29
a quick plot preview can be used to verify the frame settings
03:38
and finally create a new trace
03:42
indicate the changes that we made to this drawing by using simple annotation tools.
Video transcript
00:00
This is the solution video for collaboration and working with external data.
00:05
In
00:05
a
00:06
there are many possible ways to approach any given task and what is
00:09
best and most intuitive for one user may not be for another.
00:13
These solutions videos demonstrate just one set of workflows that
00:16
could be taken when working through these practice exercises.
00:20
They are not intended to be step by step instructions but rather
00:23
a guided tour of one user's approach and rationale in completing this exercise
00:31
in this civil grading drawing.
00:35
The reference palette shows two X
00:37
refs are attached,
00:40
the site reference
00:42
should have its own nested reference that isn't showing
00:47
this is likely the result of the reference type being incorrect.
00:52
This is resolved by opening the X site drawing
00:55
and changing the reference type of the X topo
00:57
reference.
01:13
When working with references, the tree view can be useful
01:18
in showing the relationship between references and nested references.
01:23
Open the X design drawing
01:30
and edit the basin
01:32
note
01:33
in the up left corner.
01:35
We wanna add a field to this
01:38
that is linked to the yellow poly line perimeter around the basin
01:42
and shows the area
01:44
in square feet.
01:55
A conversion factor is applied to change the area from square inches to square feet.
02:18
While in the X design drawing,
02:20
compare it with a previous version
02:23
of that drawing.
02:27
Exporting a point in time snapshot
02:30
of the comparison
02:31
can be useful for tracking changes that have been made
02:57
back in the grading sheet
02:59
attach a PDF underlay
03:05
by presetting the scale and rotation.
03:08
Placing the PDF
03:10
is simply a matter of picking a location
03:22
set the PDF frame variable
03:24
so that the frames are visible
03:27
but will not plot
03:29
a quick plot preview can be used to verify the frame settings
03:38
and finally create a new trace
03:42
indicate the changes that we made to this drawing by using simple annotation tools.
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