Sharing Civil 3D Object Catalogs

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Now for the Civil 3D object.

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In the catalog, we have the subassemblies to create the reservoirs.

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We have also the gravity pipe networks.

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And we have the pipe pressure network.

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For the pipe network catalog, by default, it's located at the C drive, ProgramData, Autodesk, C3D and the version you are using,

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ENU if you're in English, FR, for example, if you are French, backslash Pipe Catalog.

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If you want your colleagues to use the same objects to design your pipe catalog, they need to have exactly the same pipe catalog as you.

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In order to achieve this, you will need to share all the resources inside the pipe catalog to your colleagues.

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The second point, Civil 3D allows you to bring intelligence when you design your pipe catalog.

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This intelligence is assigned by the rules.

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We call that pipe styles or pipe rules.

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The rules to create and design your pipe network are stored in your template in the styles.

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So that's why, again, the styles coming from DWT or coming from a DWG is very important.

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It is the same for the pressure pipe network.

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So, pressure pipe network use what we call SQLite file,

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and you will need to share all the SQLite files to your colleagues in order they can design the same elements as you do.

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It's very important, in case for your project, maybe you will have to customize certain elements,

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and if you customize certain element, you will have to share these files to your colleagues.

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And again, you will have to share the template and the styles.

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So, this was for the pipe network and for the pressure pipe network.

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Now for the subassemblies.

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The subassemblies is again an object in Civil 3D to create your corridor, it's a core element to create your corridor.

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Autodesk already developed a tool palette where you have subassemblies,

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that you can add your own subassemblies that you created in Subassembly Composer,

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but you can have also access to other subassemblies by using the Country Kits.

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And you can insert manually your subassemblies.

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In case you created your own subassemblies, you will need to share the subassemblies to your colleagues, and it's not very easy.

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Here I show you a video.

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And in this video, I simulate the screen of the first person and the screen of the second person.

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So, the first person developed a subassembly, a customized subassemblies, and a customized tool palette.

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And the first person will share his customized tool palette with his customized elements to the second person.

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So, in my example, is person A, person B.

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So here, person A will use a certain profile, a profile that he customized.

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I call that Custom Profile.

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Now since he set up the custom profile, he has a custom tool palette as you can see here, custom subassembly.

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Here we see the person B.

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The person B has a normal standard Civil 3D profile, and he has a virgin palette with no elements.

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So, in this video, I will show you how to transfer the data from the person A to the person B.

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And you will see is not easy at all, you will have to export the user profile,

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you will have to export or to copy the elements in the register tool, the elements from the tool palette and the elements from the imported tools.

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So, this is what I'm doing right now, in the video.

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I take the elements of the register tools and I copy paste to the second computer.

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Here I do that manually so that it's easy to understand what you need to copy paste, but know that it's possible to automate this with a batch file.

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And after copying the folders, the architecture and all the elements coming from the user profile register tools, tool palette, imported tools,

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the person B will have the Civil 3D profile and the tool palette that was customized by the person A.

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Now, the person B imports the profile he just imported,

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he selects the right Civil 3D profile, so the Custom Profile,

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and now he will have the custom tool palette created by his colleague, person A.

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And here, just to finish, I just show that you can create obviously, an assembly based on the elements.

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So, this is the way, when you customize elements, new structures, pipes or assemblies to create your corridor,

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this is how you share these objects to your colleagues so that all people have the same elements.