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Transcript
00:05
So, we have a site and we have a building concept.
00:09
As the architect or the architectural lead person, you probably need more information than this.
00:15
But where does this information come from?
00:18
Well, it's at this point where you're going to need to take the information you have and run with it.
00:23
So, since you are probably also the technical lead, you need to make some calls and get the ball rolling.
00:29
You also need to figure out where the gaps are in the information you have and to organize everything before you.
00:36
The objective of this video is to carefully open the site drawing in Civil 3D.
00:41
I know your focus is on buildings, but it's your building. So, your job is to know enough about it to get your buildings in the right spot.
00:50
I'm going to jump into Civil 3D.
00:53
I don't trust anything, so I'm going to actually recover a drawing.
00:57
Even if it doesn't need it, it's still safe to run recover.
01:01
I'll go to my Civil 3D button. I'm going to go to Drawing Utilities.
01:07
I'd like to scroll down until we find Recover.
01:12
And we'll just Recover because I know we can't find the XREFs. So, I'm just going to go Recover.
01:18
Now, notice how I'm breaking down my files.
01:22
I have a project. And I have my project broken down by discipline.
01:29
If I go to My Site Civil discipline, I have Provided By Others and any AutoCAD that's in here.
01:38
If we go to Provided By Others, go to the date we received the model. I have this XSITE-Next5.
01:48
I don't know what that means, but I am going to right-click and copy this.
01:55
I want to preserve this drawing at all costs, errors and all.
02:01
I'm going to go up one level, up another level.
02:07
I'm just going to go into AutoCAD.
02:11
Now, I'm going to right-click and paste it into this directory.
02:18
It might take a second.
02:20
There's my XSITE-Next5. Click Open.
02:28
External surface file not found.
02:30
It's good to read these dialogues. Don't just hit close through them.
02:34
This is one case where I don't know what this is.
02:37
You could ask the civil engineer what it is and if you need it. I don't think we need it.
02:41
Really, what I want to do is get to this geometry. So hit Close.
02:46
It didn't find any errors, but it erased something.
02:49
So, okay, it was recovered. Safe enough. Hit Close.
02:53
I wonder if we're missing any XREFs.
02:57
Do you want to use online map data? We don't know what they use, so let's just say No.
03:01
One or more reference files cannot be located or read.
03:07
Right now, I don't want to open the External Reference files palette.
03:10
It's important to know what's missing, but right now, I just want to get to this geometry.
03:14
Plus, I'm afraid there might be circular references.
03:19
I just want to get this thing open, get it audited, and save it.
03:22
So, right now, I'm going to ignore unresolved reference files.
03:25
Now, I'll hit Escape a couple times.
03:34
Okay, we have a site.
03:36
So, what I'd like to do is make sure that this is on some kind of state plane,
03:40
or something that I can use to pull the coordinates into Revit.
03:44
After all, we're trying to locate a building, right?
03:48
Make sure your Tool Space is open.
03:50
If it's not, at the command prompt, type TOOLSPACE and it should come up.
03:58
Click Tool Space, and it should open this Tool Space dialog.
04:01
If it's open, you're good to go.
04:05
Go to the Settings tab. Right-click on XSITE-Next5.
04:11
Let's go to Edit Drawing Settings.
04:14
This is what we're looking for.
04:16
NAD83 Colorado State Plan.
04:19
That's exactly what we want to see.
04:22
It's got our datum.
04:23
This is the information that we're going to pull into Revit.
04:27
It's important stuff.
04:29
If this is not set up, I strongly advise you to talk to your civil engineer and ask them to put this on a state plan.
04:36
That way, we know our coordinates are going to be perfectly shared with Revit as well as Civil 3D.
04:42
I'm going to hit Cancel here.
04:44
I'm going to audit this drawing. So, I'm going to go to the Civil 3D home button.
04:51
I'm going to go to Drawing Utilities. I'm going to go to Audit, fix any errors, type Y, hit Enter.
05:02
Wow, total errors found: 1002, fixed: 1002.
05:06
Didn't erase anything. That's good.
05:09
I knew better than to trust this drawing.
05:15
Surface EG Drone.
05:16
So, all that third-party garbage they used caused some errors.
05:20
We don't have to worry about it now because we did our due diligence and audited this thing.
05:25
Close out of here. Go ahead and save it.
Video transcript
00:05
So, we have a site and we have a building concept.
00:09
As the architect or the architectural lead person, you probably need more information than this.
00:15
But where does this information come from?
00:18
Well, it's at this point where you're going to need to take the information you have and run with it.
00:23
So, since you are probably also the technical lead, you need to make some calls and get the ball rolling.
00:29
You also need to figure out where the gaps are in the information you have and to organize everything before you.
00:36
The objective of this video is to carefully open the site drawing in Civil 3D.
00:41
I know your focus is on buildings, but it's your building. So, your job is to know enough about it to get your buildings in the right spot.
00:50
I'm going to jump into Civil 3D.
00:53
I don't trust anything, so I'm going to actually recover a drawing.
00:57
Even if it doesn't need it, it's still safe to run recover.
01:01
I'll go to my Civil 3D button. I'm going to go to Drawing Utilities.
01:07
I'd like to scroll down until we find Recover.
01:12
And we'll just Recover because I know we can't find the XREFs. So, I'm just going to go Recover.
01:18
Now, notice how I'm breaking down my files.
01:22
I have a project. And I have my project broken down by discipline.
01:29
If I go to My Site Civil discipline, I have Provided By Others and any AutoCAD that's in here.
01:38
If we go to Provided By Others, go to the date we received the model. I have this XSITE-Next5.
01:48
I don't know what that means, but I am going to right-click and copy this.
01:55
I want to preserve this drawing at all costs, errors and all.
02:01
I'm going to go up one level, up another level.
02:07
I'm just going to go into AutoCAD.
02:11
Now, I'm going to right-click and paste it into this directory.
02:18
It might take a second.
02:20
There's my XSITE-Next5. Click Open.
02:28
External surface file not found.
02:30
It's good to read these dialogues. Don't just hit close through them.
02:34
This is one case where I don't know what this is.
02:37
You could ask the civil engineer what it is and if you need it. I don't think we need it.
02:41
Really, what I want to do is get to this geometry. So hit Close.
02:46
It didn't find any errors, but it erased something.
02:49
So, okay, it was recovered. Safe enough. Hit Close.
02:53
I wonder if we're missing any XREFs.
02:57
Do you want to use online map data? We don't know what they use, so let's just say No.
03:01
One or more reference files cannot be located or read.
03:07
Right now, I don't want to open the External Reference files palette.
03:10
It's important to know what's missing, but right now, I just want to get to this geometry.
03:14
Plus, I'm afraid there might be circular references.
03:19
I just want to get this thing open, get it audited, and save it.
03:22
So, right now, I'm going to ignore unresolved reference files.
03:25
Now, I'll hit Escape a couple times.
03:34
Okay, we have a site.
03:36
So, what I'd like to do is make sure that this is on some kind of state plane,
03:40
or something that I can use to pull the coordinates into Revit.
03:44
After all, we're trying to locate a building, right?
03:48
Make sure your Tool Space is open.
03:50
If it's not, at the command prompt, type TOOLSPACE and it should come up.
03:58
Click Tool Space, and it should open this Tool Space dialog.
04:01
If it's open, you're good to go.
04:05
Go to the Settings tab. Right-click on XSITE-Next5.
04:11
Let's go to Edit Drawing Settings.
04:14
This is what we're looking for.
04:16
NAD83 Colorado State Plan.
04:19
That's exactly what we want to see.
04:22
It's got our datum.
04:23
This is the information that we're going to pull into Revit.
04:27
It's important stuff.
04:29
If this is not set up, I strongly advise you to talk to your civil engineer and ask them to put this on a state plan.
04:36
That way, we know our coordinates are going to be perfectly shared with Revit as well as Civil 3D.
04:42
I'm going to hit Cancel here.
04:44
I'm going to audit this drawing. So, I'm going to go to the Civil 3D home button.
04:51
I'm going to go to Drawing Utilities. I'm going to go to Audit, fix any errors, type Y, hit Enter.
05:02
Wow, total errors found: 1002, fixed: 1002.
05:06
Didn't erase anything. That's good.
05:09
I knew better than to trust this drawing.
05:15
Surface EG Drone.
05:16
So, all that third-party garbage they used caused some errors.
05:20
We don't have to worry about it now because we did our due diligence and audited this thing.
05:25
Close out of here. Go ahead and save it.
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