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Integrated BIM tools, including Revit, AutoCAD, and Civil 3D
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Transcript
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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Hello, everyone.
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Thank you for joining this presentation about how
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to set up a Civil 3D Project.
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My name is Raphael Kuntz.
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And I am a designated support specialist at Autodesk.
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During this presentation, we will cover three big topics.
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The first one is data management,
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the best practices in Civil 3D.
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The second one is the importance of the styles
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and the templates.
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And the third one is about how to share Civil 3D
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objects such as assemblies, pipe networks, and so on.
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These presentations focus on the design
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part of any infrastructure project
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using the Autodesk software.
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In the first part, we will tell you
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the best practices, how to manage different data
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for infrastructure project.
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And the second part, that will be
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the CDE, common data environment, with Vault
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and BIM 360 of Autodesk.
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So data management in any infrastructure project
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is very important because infrastructure project
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can be very large and complex with a lot of data.
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So data management is very important
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to keep doing performance, to have dynamic design,
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to also allow collaboration between your team members,
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and to have only one single source of design.
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In Civil 3D, there are three different ways
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to manage the data.
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So the first one is what we call the external references, XREFs.
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And this XREF already exist in AutoCAD,
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where you can attach, obviously, AutoCAD DWG format
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images such PNG, a TIFF, JPEG, and also Point Cloud.
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The second one, which will be the most important part
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for this presentation, are the data shortcut references
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for the Civil 3D objects.
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And the last one is the tools made for the data management
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such as Vault and BIM 360.
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In an infrastructure project, it's
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always better before modeling to know what we want to achieve
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and what data we will need to use.
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If you see my diagrams, the first of the objects
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are the input data.
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We have such surfaces, alignments, corridors,
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pipe network, et cetera.
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We're going to use these objects then to create or design
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our 3D models.
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And then with our 3D models, we will do,
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deliver 3D models or
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views, cross-sections, profile views.
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And to organize all of this, obviously, we
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need to have a data [? situation. ?]
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Solutions such as Vault and BIM 360
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can give you a lot of benefit.
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Here in the list, you can see we have the logical naming,
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phasing, you have also a security backup to have access
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to all the versions of your models.
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And you can also comply with standards of BIM.
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For the AutoCAD entities, we have the lines, polylines,
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circles, blocks, et cetera.
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And for the Civil
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are intelligent and dynamic and they
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have interaction to each other, such as the surfaces,
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alignments, corridors, pipe networks.
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For the example references in Civil 3D, as I said,
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you can enter different types.
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You have the DWG.
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You have the image, the DGN from [? Bentler, ?] PDF,
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Point Cloud.
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With that, you can also fade or cleave the XREF.
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You can extract some feature line to create your surfaces.
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And you can add label to your external references.
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So it's a different way to insert an external reference.
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We have the Attachment and the Overlay.
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Let's admit you want to attach a file.
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And this file has also an external reference.
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If you want to attach everything,
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it's better to use the options attachment.
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If you only want to attach one file
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without its external reference, it's better to choose Overlay.
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Most of the time to avoid any nesting reference
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and circular references, it's better to use the Overlay.
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So now I'm going to do a live demo.
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In this file, it's a total virgin file.
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I have nothing here.
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Now I will just use an XREF, an external reference.
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I select the right external reference.
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As I said, you have different type.
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Me, in order to avoid any circular reference,
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I always take this option.
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Because my data are geolocated, I
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don't insert my point manually.
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So I press OK.
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And I have my XREF here.
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Obviously, this is XREF to a certain layer.
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In this layer, so this is a Layer 0.
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And if I go to my Layer Properties,
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obviously, I can play with the transparency.
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The thing here also, as it is an XREF,
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so it's not an object inside my file.
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It's just a reference.
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But I'm still able to add data and to add label.
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And the purpose of it is you don't
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need to add all the data in one file.
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But you can just call references to keep your file light.
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So here I go, for example, to Annotate, I go to Label.
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And I go and it can take Surface because my external reference
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represents a surface.
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And I can take, for example, this one.
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And I can see, for example, here this
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is my elevation I can annotate something
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else, such as a slope.
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I select the option I want.
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So me, I want to define two points in here.
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I have my slope.
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So again, this is just a basic example
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to show you that you don't have to implement or insert
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all geodata in one file you can call references.
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It is an external references, however,
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which is common REFEDIT.
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You can edit, modify, the external references directly
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in your [INAUDIBLE] file.
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It's still possible.
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Also in a big project, sometimes you
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will need to change past locations, to change the name,
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and so on.
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And if you are working on a complex project,
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that can become a big challenge.
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So one tool I advise for you is to use a Reference Manager.
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So you see, I click here.
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I go to my Reference Manager.
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I select the file I want.
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For example, I take this one.
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I add, obviously, all the external references.
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And here, I see all the different resources
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that my file is using.
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And here for example, I can say, OK, Find and Replace
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the Past Location.
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This is an easy way for you if you just
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changed the location of your fire
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to repoint at the right location the external references.
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So that was the part for the AutoCAD entities.
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Now I'm going to talk about the Civil 3D object.
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In Civil 3D, we have six types of object
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we can put in what we call, DREF, data references.
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So it's like external references for AutoCAD.
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But now, it's about the Civil 3D object.
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So here in this table, you see the surface,
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alignment and profile, the pipe network, the corridor.
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These four elements, obviously, is the objects.
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These are intelligent objects to make your infrastructure
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project.
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As a tool, it has [? one ?] sample lines.
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And View Frame Groups are used to create
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your 2D plans, cross-section, and plan and profile views.
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So to use these DREFs, there is a certain series
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of steps to do.
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Again, it's to set up a working folder, associate the shortcut
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project to your drawing, and then save the file.
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So I will show you this in demo.
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So if I don't [INAUDIBLE] now I can delete my label
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of my previous example.
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And what I can do is I will create a new working folder.
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So for example, I would create a new one,
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and I set working folder, I select this one again.
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Then I create a new data shortcut project folder
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in this working folder.
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It's possible to have different project folder
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inside the working folder.
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You can have one, two, three, several.
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Doesn't really matter So if I [INAUDIBLE] a file,
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I would say, Live Demo again.
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Then for example, I will create an alignment,
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which is a Civil 3D object.
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So I will use just a tangent like this.
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So we'll present my main road, for example.
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You have my alignment.
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You see so far, I have nothing.
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Why?
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Because I didn't add any reference.
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So first, what I need to do is like I
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save my file, so somewhere.
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Then I associate my current drawing
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to the project, so data shortcut project.
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And you see this is the one I just created.
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And now I will be able to create data shortcut.
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So for example here, obviously, I
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will add the alignment I just created.
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And if I open a new file, I will be able to insert automatically
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this alignment.
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So this is a basic example.
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But if I want to show you, I would say, on a real project,
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this is what we normally do.
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We have the surface, OK?
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And I called in reference, my alignment.
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As you can see here, I have no icon.
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That I have this icon arrow.
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What that means, that means that come from this reference.
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OK.
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And the thing is you try to split
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as much as you can the data by using the data shortcut.
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So for example, in this file, I only have my surface.
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And I called my alignment as a reference.
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And how to know it is a reference?
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I can see this arrow icon, things that I see here.
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So my alignment comes from this data shortcut.
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And if I do some steps, for example, here,
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I have my surface in the reference.
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And I have my alignment, which is in my file.
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And I do the same, for example, for the pipe network.
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My pipe network is here as you can see, in blue.
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And I called in reference my surface.
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And I do that also for the corridor.
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So why do I do this?
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It's because in AutoCAD and Civil 3D,
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it's not possible to open the same file with several users,
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with several members of the project.
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So if you work in a complex and large project,
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you want all your colleagues to work.
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And for example here, one person can be in charge
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to design, to model, the surface.
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One other person can be in charge
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to design the alignment, and another for the pipe network,
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et cetera, et cetera.
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And the greatest thing here is, for example,
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if I take my surface, and I do a modification of my surface,
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for example, here I will add a grading, you see it's modified.
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I need first to save my file.
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And here, for the person who will
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be in charge to design the alignment, you
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will see this pop up, hey, my reference has been updated.
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I need to synchronize.
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And then you give a bit of time to see if we need to see,
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to work.
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And you see here, I could see some modification
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of my colleague.
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And this is a way to enhance the collaboration.
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Because if you put also that in one file,
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first it would be heavy, long to [? appear. ?]
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And the second point is only one person
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would be able to work on your project
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That's why if you're able to split your data,
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it's always better for the collaboration.
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And obviously at the end, if you follow the same workflow,
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OK, so I added in reference my surface.
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I added in reference my alignment, my corridor.
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You can have this Wizard, where you have your 2D deliveries.
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So for example, here is just a layout.
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And I can show you.
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So I have this layout where you can see my plan view
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and my profile view.
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So this is a PDF coming from this file.
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As you can see, I have my plan view of my corridor, my pipe
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network.
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And here, my profile of my profile
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view of my pipe network.
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And I would be able to do some cross-section.
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Also, it's not the topic of today.
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But that would be easy also with the references
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to insert that in your InfraWorks model.
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And for example here, if I change a bit,
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the settings, you can see that is exactly, obviously,
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is a project of my Civil 3D model,
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with my path network and my corridor.
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So that's what I wanted to show you.
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That maybe complicated, but this is how you work.
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As I said in the working folder, you
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can attach different data shortcut project.
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So to know which one you are, obviously,
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try to read the response.
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So data shortcut enhance the collaboration
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because you can insert copies of references.
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One thing to know, the objects you insert as references cannot
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be modified.
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So objects can only be modified in the [INAUDIBLE]..
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So it's better for a question of trust.
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Obviously, you would be able to change
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the styles of the objects.
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That's something-- I will explain that later.
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And again, the last one is if your colleague modify
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a Civil 3D objects and saves the file,
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you will be able to see a pop-up asking you
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to synchronize the references.
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Things to know when you use data references.
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There are a lot of benefit, but you have to use that carefully.
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The first thing is if you delete the reference, that
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can take time to delete it.
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Because in Civil 3D project, the objects
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that are the most important is the surface.
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Why?
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Because you design your alignment and profile
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based on the surface.
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The corridor is designed
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So we can easily imagine that if you delete a surface,
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that will take a lot of time because all the elements are
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in interaction to each other.
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The second point is don't exceed
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in the first location.
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Otherwise, you will have a potential risk.
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The third one is a recommendation.
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Do not change the names and the locations of the references.
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Obviously, the software will always point to the file.
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But if you should change the name of the file,
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Civil 3D would not be able to recognize it.
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So it's a recommendation.
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But for certain reason, by experience,
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we will have to do that in certain projects.
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So if you need to change your names,
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I advise you to use the tool Data Shortcut Editor.
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So here, I'm going to do a demo again.
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I go to Data Shortcut Editor.
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I opened, obviously, the file I want.
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And I select my working folder.
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And here as you can see, I have all my references.
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And the good thing is like the reference manager,
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I can change and find and replace.
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So that happens.
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That applies for the object name,
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but also for the first location.
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For the data management application
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in the Autodesk [INAUDIBLE] system,
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we have BIM 360 and Vault. The benefit of this application
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is to secure the document locking,
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meaning that if I open one file, we lock the file automatically
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so that our colleagues will not be able to modify something
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that I'm currently working.
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You will be able also to assign file access permission.
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You will have also automated backup.
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And you will have also other features.
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As an example, I go to my BIM 360.
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As you can see, I have this log.
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And this log come from my Civil 3D
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because I have my file open, Planproductionfinished.
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Obviously, I can set terms of permission.
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So for example, here is myself and the people
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working on the project, having just a 3D Civil Engineer.
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So I can control the people who have access to my file.
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And in the BIM 360 work, obviously, I
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can have access to my different layouts and my 3D models.
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I can also have some set views.
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As you can see here, I have initial 3D plan for a fence
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[? one. ?] Some [? surface ?] views that I set here,
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so for the 3D.
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So this is-- here's a view for BIM 360
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and also for a Civil 3D model.
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Something also I want to highlight even if it's not
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the main topic of this presentation,
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is also how to navigate with PDF coming from Civil 3D.
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For example, here, I go to this PDF.
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And I have some labels named region one, region two.
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And because I have a PDF named region one,
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BIM 360 creates automatically a hyperlink
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to my PDF entitled region one.
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So for example, here I click, and that brings me
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to the PDF, region one automatically.
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Here, for example, it sees my plan view
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and it recognized, oh, I have a label called
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cross-section four, and I have a PDF named cross-section four,
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so I create an automatic hyperlink.
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And this is with BIM
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navigate into your 3D delivery that's coming from Civil 3D.
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Obviously, in BIM 360, there are way more features,
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but I just wanted to give you some [INAUDIBLE]
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the Vault. So that was for the data management, about
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the external references, the data shortcut references,
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and BIM 360 and Vault.
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Now when you will start shopping for 3D projects,
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you have to pay attention about the styles and the templates.
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When we design, we need to have a certain display of our data
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to help us to analyze a project.
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Then we're going to use another style for the deliveries.
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The layers and the styles can come from your company
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standardization, can come from the template
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or maybe developed by a [? direct ?]
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and also by the country kit.
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So when I say the styles and layers, so that means,
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obviously, the AutoCAD layers as you can see here.
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The styles of the Civil
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it is the surface style, and then
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the template for the plan production.
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So for the template of design, when I say template of designs,
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because a template will rule the display of your object.
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So that will rule the layers and the display of your object
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and also the content of your label.
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And that will also rule the display of your corridor.
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So I will show you a brief demo about it.
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Here, I have my surface.
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But that doesn't really give me a lot of information.
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So to help me to analyze certain topic,
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I can go to my surface properties.
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And I can select different style.
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So for example here, you see I have my arrows
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to define the slope.
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Here, I can see the border and elevation, and so on.
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So the elevations confirm here that analysis, like that.
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So you can configurate the display of your Civil 3D
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objects to help you in your analysis.
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So I change the display.
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So for example, my survey is [? plain, ?]
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I prefer to have a background style.
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So that for me, it is here too.
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I have a look on my project.
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And this is an example on the surface.
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But for example, if I select a cross-section, it's the same.
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I select my cross-section object.
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I go to the Section View Property.
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And I can say, OK, I want to change the style.
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And the style is for example, important for the display.
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But [? here's ?] to for the vertical exaggeration.
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So the style rules everything in Civil 3D.
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It's very important.
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For the corridor, it's a bit more complex.
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For example here, I have my corridor, the 3D style,
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I don't really see if I am in [? cutting ?] field, like it's
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all in pink.
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So it's an example.
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But if I go to my Corridor Properties,
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and I go to the Code Style Tab, and I change to All Codes,
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and you see here now, it's better.
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For example, here you can see in the green, that
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means I am in the field area.
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And when I am in red, that mean in cut area.
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In [INAUDIBLE] view, for example.
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So this is what you see here in marked-off section.
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For example, you see here I am in the field area,
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so it's green.
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And in red because I'm in cut area.
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But instead of doing my cross-sections,
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because it takes a bit of time to create my cross-sections,
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I can already use a certain [? code, ?] a set
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style of my corridor to already have a look directly from plan
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view.
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So the style is very important to add view
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to design in Civil 3D.
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For the style, the styles are stored in the template,
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in the format DWT or in the AutoCAD DWG format.
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If by mistake, you are missing a style,
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there's different ways to import or reference the style.
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I recommend you to reference the style.
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And then we'll explain why later.
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Here, I have this file.
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In this file, I go to the settings tab.
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And as you can see, I have no style
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at all, just one surface style.
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I just don't have one.
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If I go to my alignment, [INAUDIBLE]
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and so on and so on.
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So what you can do, and the [INAUDIBLE] this way
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is you go to the Manage Tab.
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And you go to Reference.
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And you will be able to reference the style
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of another template or DWG.
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For example here, I select a DWG.
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And that we reference the state of my DWG.
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Obviously, because in a Civil 3D file,
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you can have a lot of settings, that takes a bit of time.
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So after selecting the right DWT or DWG,
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you select which style you want to reference.
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So you can say, none of them, or all of them, and so on.
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And you can select I only want the surface and so on.
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So for example for the video, I would just use surface.
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As a result, we see the different styles coming
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as a reference with this icon.
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And why I advise you to use a reference,
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is because if I change the style in this file
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by synchronizing the template that
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will modify our [? source ?] of style you have in your file
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here.
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OK.
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So if you want to only have one single source of data,
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it's better to add reference.
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If you want to import, obviously, it's easy.
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You have this command to import.
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Otherwise, you can do that manually.
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So for example here, I can go to Master View.
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And I can go to here.
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And for example, I can go to Alignment Style,
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and I can just drag and drop the alignment styles of my corridor
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style drawing to my drawing three like this.
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In this way, you can import.
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So if I go now to my Active Drawing View,
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you see that now I have my different styles of alignment.
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So this is a good trick in case, in your project,
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you are missing certain styles, and you
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need to [? get ?] the styles from another template
26:06
or drawing.
26:08
The template for the plan production is very important.
26:12
We have different types of template.
26:14
We have the plan view only, there's a profile view only,
26:17
there's plan view and profile view
26:18
and the cross-section view.
26:20
Here is a video to show you the importance of the template.
26:26
So here I have my main project.
26:30
And now I want to deliver 2D plans because so far, the PDF
26:36
is the type of deliveries.
26:42
So first, I will check the settings of my template.
26:46
As you can see, there are different type
26:48
of template, imperial unit, metric unit, plan, profile,
26:51
section views and et cetera.
26:55
Because in plan production, we need
26:58
to fit a model into a certain size of the paper,
27:03
we will need to set up, obviously,
27:06
the dimension of the sheet of paper but also the scales.
27:20
Here, this is a confined environment
27:23
for my profile view.
27:24
And I set up my scale, 1 to 2000.
27:28
Also in the [? template ?] block, in the template,
27:31
we will be able to insert some automatic attributes
27:36
such as project name, the dates, the scale,
27:39
the name of the drafter, et cetera, et cetera.
27:43
And when you will create your 2D plans,
27:46
you will use these templates to automatically create
27:49
your plan production.
27:58
So this is the result. I used my model.
28:01
And I used the template I just showed you in the video.
28:04
And this the result I have when I have my plan view
28:08
and my production view, my plan view and profile view.
28:13
Now, this is a subpart, how to share AutoCAD objects.
28:19
So for these vertical AutoCAD software-- so obviously,
28:23
we still have AutoCAD object.
28:25
And we can still use the tool palette
28:28
for blocks, hatches, images, table, XREF, subassemblies.
28:32
And for that, if you want to insert these elements
28:36
in your tool palette, you can use the Design Center.
28:39
I will give you a short example right now.
28:41
So here I have my tool palette.
28:47
Well, for example, here I have my elements to design my roads.
28:51
Now what I can do is I would create a new palette,
28:53
and I would say, blocks, for example.
28:60
And I can go to my Design Center.
29:12
Here, what I do is I will copy all the blocks of this file
29:18
annotation.
29:19
And then we insert these blocks into my tool palette.
29:26
So for example, this, I just drag and drop.
29:31
And then, I can insert my block reference.
29:43
So this is a way how you can customize easily
29:46
certain AutoCAD entities, AutoCAD objects by creating
29:51
a new palette and by copying and transferring AutoCAD objects.
29:55
Now for the Civil 3D Object.
29:58
In the catalog, we have the subassemblies
30:01
to create the [? reservoirs. ?] OK we have also the [INAUDIBLE]
30:05
pipe networks.
30:06
And we have the pipe pressure network.
30:11
So the Pipe Network Catalog, by default,
30:14
is located at the C drive program data, Autodesk,
30:18
Civil 3D, and the version you are using.
30:20
enu if you are in English.
30:23
For example, if you are French, backslash pipe catalog.
30:26
If you want your colleagues to use the same objects to design
30:30
your pipe catalogs, they need to have exactly
30:33
the same pipe catalog as you.
30:35
So in order to achieve this, you will
30:38
need to share all the resources inside the pipe catalog
30:42
to your colleagues.
30:44
The second point, Civil 3D allows
30:47
you to bring intelligence when you design your pipe catalog.
30:51
The 3D agent is assigned by the rules.
30:54
We call that pipe styles or pipe rules.
30:57
It's a rule to create and design your pipe network
31:01
as stored in your template, in the styles.
31:04
So that's why, again, the styles, coming from the DWT
31:07
or coming from the DWG is very important.
31:11
It is the same for the pressure pipe network.
31:13
So pressure pipe network use what we call
31:16
sqlite format, sqlite file.
31:19
And you will need to share all the sqlite files
31:22
to your colleagues in order they can design
31:24
the same elements as you do.
31:26
It's very important, in case for your project maybe,
31:30
you will have to customize certain element.
31:32
And if you customize certain element,
31:34
you will have to share these files to your colleagues.
31:37
And again, you will have to share
31:39
the template and the styles.
31:41
So this works for the pipe network and the pressure pipe
31:45
network.
31:46
Now for the subassemblies.
31:47
So assemblies is again an object in Civil 3D
31:51
to create your corridor.
31:52
It's a corridor element
31:55
Autodesk already developed a tool palette
31:58
where you have subassemblies.
31:59
But you can add your own subassembly
32:03
that you created in Subassembly Composer.
32:05
But you can have also access to other subassemblies
32:08
by using the country kits.
32:10
And you can insert manually your subassemblies.
32:13
In case you created your own subassemblies,
32:17
you will need to share the subassemblies
32:19
to your colleagues.
32:20
And it's not very easy.
32:23
Here, I show you a video.
32:25
And in this video, I simulate one,
32:28
the screen of the first person and the queen
32:31
of the second person.
32:33
The first person developed a subassembly, a customized
32:37
subassembly and a customized tool palette.
32:40
And the first person will share his customized tool palette
32:43
with his customized elements to the second person.
32:47
So in my example, this person A, person B.
32:55
So here, person A will use a certain profile,
32:60
a profile that he customized.
33:02
I call that custom profile.
33:11
Now since he set up the custom profile,
33:14
he has a custom tool palette, as you can see here, custom
33:19
subassembly.
33:22
Here, this is a Person B. The Person
33:24
B has a normal standard Civil 3D profile.
33:28
And he has a virgin palette with no elements.
33:34
So in this video, I will show you
33:36
how to transfer the data from the person A to the person B.
33:40
And you will see, it's not easy at all.
33:42
You will have to export the user profile.
33:45
You will have to export or to copy
33:48
the elements in the register tool,
33:51
the elements from the tool palette,
33:52
and the elements from the imported tools.
33:56
So this is what I'm doing right now in the video.
33:59
I take the elements of the registered tools.
34:01
And I copy, paste into the second computer.
34:07
Here I do that manually.
34:09
So that it's easy to understand what you need to copy, paste.
34:13
But know that it's possible to automate
34:17
this with a batch [? timer. ?]
34:27
And after copying the folders, the architecture,
34:31
and all the elements coming from the user profile register
34:35
tools, so the palette imported tools,
34:37
so person B will have the
34:40
palette that was customized by the person A.
35:04
Now the person B import the profile he just imported.
35:11
He selects the right Civil 3D profile,
35:14
so it's a custom profile.
35:15
And now he will have the custom tool palette created
35:19
by his colleague, person A. And here just to finish,
35:23
I just show that you can create, obviously, an assembly based
35:26
on the elements.
35:27
So this is the way, when you customize
35:30
elements like [INAUDIBLE] structures, pipes,
35:34
or subassemblies to create your corridor,
35:36
this is how you share these objects to your colleagues
35:40
so that all people have the same elements.
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Thank you for watching this presentation.
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I hope it was very helpful for you.
35:47
And if you have any questions, please
35:50
do not hesitate to contact your customer success specialist.
Video transcript
00:00
[MUSIC PLAYING]
00:07
Hello, everyone.
00:08
Thank you for joining this presentation about how
00:11
to set up a Civil 3D Project.
00:13
My name is Raphael Kuntz.
00:14
And I am a designated support specialist at Autodesk.
00:18
During this presentation, we will cover three big topics.
00:21
The first one is data management,
00:23
the best practices in Civil 3D.
00:25
The second one is the importance of the styles
00:28
and the templates.
00:29
And the third one is about how to share Civil 3D
00:32
objects such as assemblies, pipe networks, and so on.
00:36
These presentations focus on the design
00:39
part of any infrastructure project
00:41
using the Autodesk software.
00:43
In the first part, we will tell you
00:46
the best practices, how to manage different data
00:49
for infrastructure project.
00:50
And the second part, that will be
00:52
the CDE, common data environment, with Vault
00:55
and BIM 360 of Autodesk.
00:58
So data management in any infrastructure project
01:00
is very important because infrastructure project
01:02
can be very large and complex with a lot of data.
01:06
So data management is very important
01:08
to keep doing performance, to have dynamic design,
01:11
to also allow collaboration between your team members,
01:15
and to have only one single source of design.
01:18
In Civil 3D, there are three different ways
01:21
to manage the data.
01:21
So the first one is what we call the external references, XREFs.
01:25
And this XREF already exist in AutoCAD,
01:28
where you can attach, obviously, AutoCAD DWG format
01:32
images such PNG, a TIFF, JPEG, and also Point Cloud.
01:37
The second one, which will be the most important part
01:41
for this presentation, are the data shortcut references
01:44
for the Civil 3D objects.
01:46
And the last one is the tools made for the data management
01:50
such as Vault and BIM 360.
01:52
In an infrastructure project, it's
01:54
always better before modeling to know what we want to achieve
01:58
and what data we will need to use.
02:00
If you see my diagrams, the first of the objects
02:04
are the input data.
02:05
We have such surfaces, alignments, corridors,
02:07
pipe network, et cetera.
02:09
We're going to use these objects then to create or design
02:13
our 3D models.
02:14
And then with our 3D models, we will do,
02:17
deliver 3D models or
02:20
views, cross-sections, profile views.
02:23
And to organize all of this, obviously, we
02:25
need to have a data [? situation. ?]
02:28
Solutions such as Vault and BIM 360
02:31
can give you a lot of benefit.
02:33
Here in the list, you can see we have the logical naming,
02:36
phasing, you have also a security backup to have access
02:40
to all the versions of your models.
02:42
And you can also comply with standards of BIM.
02:46
For the AutoCAD entities, we have the lines, polylines,
02:50
circles, blocks, et cetera.
02:52
And for the Civil
02:54
are intelligent and dynamic and they
02:56
have interaction to each other, such as the surfaces,
02:59
alignments, corridors, pipe networks.
03:02
For the example references in Civil 3D, as I said,
03:06
you can enter different types.
03:07
You have the DWG.
03:08
You have the image, the DGN from [? Bentler, ?] PDF,
03:11
Point Cloud.
03:12
With that, you can also fade or cleave the XREF.
03:16
You can extract some feature line to create your surfaces.
03:19
And you can add label to your external references.
03:24
So it's a different way to insert an external reference.
03:27
We have the Attachment and the Overlay.
03:29
Let's admit you want to attach a file.
03:32
And this file has also an external reference.
03:35
If you want to attach everything,
03:37
it's better to use the options attachment.
03:39
If you only want to attach one file
03:42
without its external reference, it's better to choose Overlay.
03:47
Most of the time to avoid any nesting reference
03:51
and circular references, it's better to use the Overlay.
03:55
So now I'm going to do a live demo.
03:58
In this file, it's a total virgin file.
04:01
I have nothing here.
04:02
Now I will just use an XREF, an external reference.
04:10
I select the right external reference.
04:14
As I said, you have different type.
04:16
Me, in order to avoid any circular reference,
04:19
I always take this option.
04:22
Because my data are geolocated, I
04:25
don't insert my point manually.
04:28
So I press OK.
04:34
And I have my XREF here.
04:37
Obviously, this is XREF to a certain layer.
04:40
In this layer, so this is a Layer 0.
04:43
And if I go to my Layer Properties,
04:46
obviously, I can play with the transparency.
04:55
The thing here also, as it is an XREF,
04:57
so it's not an object inside my file.
04:59
It's just a reference.
05:01
But I'm still able to add data and to add label.
05:04
And the purpose of it is you don't
05:06
need to add all the data in one file.
05:08
But you can just call references to keep your file light.
05:12
So here I go, for example, to Annotate, I go to Label.
05:17
And I go and it can take Surface because my external reference
05:20
represents a surface.
05:21
And I can take, for example, this one.
05:24
And I can see, for example, here this
05:26
is my elevation I can annotate something
05:29
else, such as a slope.
05:35
I select the option I want.
05:36
So me, I want to define two points in here.
05:45
I have my slope.
05:47
So again, this is just a basic example
05:49
to show you that you don't have to implement or insert
05:53
all geodata in one file you can call references.
05:56
It is an external references, however,
05:59
which is common REFEDIT.
06:01
You can edit, modify, the external references directly
06:05
in your [INAUDIBLE] file.
06:06
It's still possible.
06:07
Also in a big project, sometimes you
06:10
will need to change past locations, to change the name,
06:13
and so on.
06:14
And if you are working on a complex project,
06:18
that can become a big challenge.
06:20
So one tool I advise for you is to use a Reference Manager.
06:26
So you see, I click here.
06:28
I go to my Reference Manager.
06:29
I select the file I want.
06:31
For example, I take this one.
06:34
I add, obviously, all the external references.
06:37
And here, I see all the different resources
06:40
that my file is using.
06:41
And here for example, I can say, OK, Find and Replace
06:45
the Past Location.
06:46
This is an easy way for you if you just
06:49
changed the location of your fire
06:51
to repoint at the right location the external references.
06:56
So that was the part for the AutoCAD entities.
06:59
Now I'm going to talk about the Civil 3D object.
07:02
In Civil 3D, we have six types of object
07:06
we can put in what we call, DREF, data references.
07:09
So it's like external references for AutoCAD.
07:12
But now, it's about the Civil 3D object.
07:15
So here in this table, you see the surface,
07:18
alignment and profile, the pipe network, the corridor.
07:22
These four elements, obviously, is the objects.
07:24
These are intelligent objects to make your infrastructure
07:27
project.
07:28
As a tool, it has [? one ?] sample lines.
07:29
And View Frame Groups are used to create
07:32
your 2D plans, cross-section, and plan and profile views.
07:37
So to use these DREFs, there is a certain series
07:40
of steps to do.
07:41
Again, it's to set up a working folder, associate the shortcut
07:46
project to your drawing, and then save the file.
07:49
So I will show you this in demo.
07:52
So if I don't [INAUDIBLE] now I can delete my label
07:55
of my previous example.
07:59
And what I can do is I will create a new working folder.
08:06
So for example, I would create a new one,
08:09
and I set working folder, I select this one again.
08:21
Then I create a new data shortcut project folder
08:26
in this working folder.
08:28
It's possible to have different project folder
08:31
inside the working folder.
08:33
You can have one, two, three, several.
08:35
Doesn't really matter So if I [INAUDIBLE] a file,
08:37
I would say, Live Demo again.
08:47
Then for example, I will create an alignment,
08:54
which is a Civil 3D object.
08:57
So I will use just a tangent like this.
09:05
So we'll present my main road, for example.
09:09
You have my alignment.
09:10
You see so far, I have nothing.
09:12
Why?
09:12
Because I didn't add any reference.
09:15
So first, what I need to do is like I
09:18
save my file, so somewhere.
09:23
Then I associate my current drawing
09:26
to the project, so data shortcut project.
09:32
And you see this is the one I just created.
09:36
And now I will be able to create data shortcut.
09:39
So for example here, obviously, I
09:42
will add the alignment I just created.
09:47
And if I open a new file, I will be able to insert automatically
10:00
this alignment.
10:02
So this is a basic example.
10:04
But if I want to show you, I would say, on a real project,
10:08
this is what we normally do.
10:11
We have the surface, OK?
10:15
And I called in reference, my alignment.
10:18
As you can see here, I have no icon.
10:20
That I have this icon arrow.
10:22
What that means, that means that come from this reference.
10:28
OK.
10:29
And the thing is you try to split
10:31
as much as you can the data by using the data shortcut.
10:34
So for example, in this file, I only have my surface.
10:38
And I called my alignment as a reference.
10:41
And how to know it is a reference?
10:42
I can see this arrow icon, things that I see here.
10:46
So my alignment comes from this data shortcut.
10:50
And if I do some steps, for example, here,
10:54
I have my surface in the reference.
10:57
And I have my alignment, which is in my file.
11:01
And I do the same, for example, for the pipe network.
11:04
My pipe network is here as you can see, in blue.
11:09
And I called in reference my surface.
11:13
And I do that also for the corridor.
11:16
So why do I do this?
11:18
It's because in AutoCAD and Civil 3D,
11:20
it's not possible to open the same file with several users,
11:25
with several members of the project.
11:28
So if you work in a complex and large project,
11:31
you want all your colleagues to work.
11:33
And for example here, one person can be in charge
11:37
to design, to model, the surface.
11:39
One other person can be in charge
11:40
to design the alignment, and another for the pipe network,
11:43
et cetera, et cetera.
11:45
And the greatest thing here is, for example,
11:48
if I take my surface, and I do a modification of my surface,
11:55
for example, here I will add a grading, you see it's modified.
12:02
I need first to save my file.
12:10
And here, for the person who will
12:14
be in charge to design the alignment, you
12:16
will see this pop up, hey, my reference has been updated.
12:20
I need to synchronize.
12:22
And then you give a bit of time to see if we need to see,
12:25
to work.
12:25
And you see here, I could see some modification
12:28
of my colleague.
12:29
And this is a way to enhance the collaboration.
12:32
Because if you put also that in one file,
12:35
first it would be heavy, long to [? appear. ?]
12:37
And the second point is only one person
12:39
would be able to work on your project
12:42
That's why if you're able to split your data,
12:44
it's always better for the collaboration.
12:47
And obviously at the end, if you follow the same workflow,
12:50
OK, so I added in reference my surface.
12:52
I added in reference my alignment, my corridor.
12:55
You can have this Wizard, where you have your 2D deliveries.
13:01
So for example, here is just a layout.
13:04
And I can show you.
13:06
So I have this layout where you can see my plan view
13:09
and my profile view.
13:11
So this is a PDF coming from this file.
13:14
As you can see, I have my plan view of my corridor, my pipe
13:17
network.
13:17
And here, my profile of my profile
13:19
view of my pipe network.
13:21
And I would be able to do some cross-section.
13:25
Also, it's not the topic of today.
13:27
But that would be easy also with the references
13:31
to insert that in your InfraWorks model.
13:34
And for example here, if I change a bit,
13:37
the settings, you can see that is exactly, obviously,
13:43
is a project of my Civil 3D model,
13:46
with my path network and my corridor.
13:48
So that's what I wanted to show you.
13:50
That maybe complicated, but this is how you work.
13:54
As I said in the working folder, you
13:56
can attach different data shortcut project.
13:59
So to know which one you are, obviously,
14:01
try to read the response.
14:03
So data shortcut enhance the collaboration
14:06
because you can insert copies of references.
14:10
One thing to know, the objects you insert as references cannot
14:14
be modified.
14:15
So objects can only be modified in the [INAUDIBLE]..
14:18
So it's better for a question of trust.
14:21
Obviously, you would be able to change
14:23
the styles of the objects.
14:24
That's something-- I will explain that later.
14:26
And again, the last one is if your colleague modify
14:30
a Civil 3D objects and saves the file,
14:33
you will be able to see a pop-up asking you
14:35
to synchronize the references.
14:37
Things to know when you use data references.
14:40
There are a lot of benefit, but you have to use that carefully.
14:44
The first thing is if you delete the reference, that
14:47
can take time to delete it.
14:48
Because in Civil 3D project, the objects
14:51
that are the most important is the surface.
14:53
Why?
14:54
Because you design your alignment and profile
14:57
based on the surface.
14:58
The corridor is designed
15:01
So we can easily imagine that if you delete a surface,
15:04
that will take a lot of time because all the elements are
15:07
in interaction to each other.
15:09
The second point is don't exceed
15:13
in the first location.
15:14
Otherwise, you will have a potential risk.
15:16
The third one is a recommendation.
15:19
Do not change the names and the locations of the references.
15:23
Obviously, the software will always point to the file.
15:26
But if you should change the name of the file,
15:28
Civil 3D would not be able to recognize it.
15:30
So it's a recommendation.
15:31
But for certain reason, by experience,
15:34
we will have to do that in certain projects.
15:36
So if you need to change your names,
15:39
I advise you to use the tool Data Shortcut Editor.
15:42
So here, I'm going to do a demo again.
15:46
I go to Data Shortcut Editor.
15:50
I opened, obviously, the file I want.
15:55
And I select my working folder.
15:59
And here as you can see, I have all my references.
16:05
And the good thing is like the reference manager,
16:08
I can change and find and replace.
16:10
So that happens.
16:11
That applies for the object name,
16:13
but also for the first location.
16:16
For the data management application
16:17
in the Autodesk [INAUDIBLE] system,
16:19
we have BIM 360 and Vault. The benefit of this application
16:24
is to secure the document locking,
16:26
meaning that if I open one file, we lock the file automatically
16:30
so that our colleagues will not be able to modify something
16:34
that I'm currently working.
16:36
You will be able also to assign file access permission.
16:40
You will have also automated backup.
16:43
And you will have also other features.
16:45
As an example, I go to my BIM 360.
16:49
As you can see, I have this log.
16:51
And this log come from my Civil 3D
16:53
because I have my file open, Planproductionfinished.
16:59
Obviously, I can set terms of permission.
17:01
So for example, here is myself and the people
17:04
working on the project, having just a 3D Civil Engineer.
17:07
So I can control the people who have access to my file.
17:11
And in the BIM 360 work, obviously, I
17:14
can have access to my different layouts and my 3D models.
17:21
I can also have some set views.
17:23
As you can see here, I have initial 3D plan for a fence
17:27
[? one. ?] Some [? surface ?] views that I set here,
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so for the 3D.
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So this is-- here's a view for BIM 360
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and also for a Civil 3D model.
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Something also I want to highlight even if it's not
17:49
the main topic of this presentation,
17:52
is also how to navigate with PDF coming from Civil 3D.
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For example, here, I go to this PDF.
18:00
And I have some labels named region one, region two.
18:05
And because I have a PDF named region one,
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BIM 360 creates automatically a hyperlink
18:11
to my PDF entitled region one.
18:14
So for example, here I click, and that brings me
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to the PDF, region one automatically.
18:21
Here, for example, it sees my plan view
18:23
and it recognized, oh, I have a label called
18:26
cross-section four, and I have a PDF named cross-section four,
18:30
so I create an automatic hyperlink.
18:32
And this is with BIM
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navigate into your 3D delivery that's coming from Civil 3D.
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Obviously, in BIM 360, there are way more features,
18:45
but I just wanted to give you some [INAUDIBLE]
18:47
the Vault. So that was for the data management, about
18:51
the external references, the data shortcut references,
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and BIM 360 and Vault.
18:58
Now when you will start shopping for 3D projects,
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you have to pay attention about the styles and the templates.
19:05
When we design, we need to have a certain display of our data
19:10
to help us to analyze a project.
19:14
Then we're going to use another style for the deliveries.
19:18
The layers and the styles can come from your company
19:21
standardization, can come from the template
19:24
or maybe developed by a [? direct ?]
19:26
and also by the country kit.
19:28
So when I say the styles and layers, so that means,
19:31
obviously, the AutoCAD layers as you can see here.
19:33
The styles of the Civil
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it is the surface style, and then
19:40
the template for the plan production.
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So for the template of design, when I say template of designs,
19:47
because a template will rule the display of your object.
19:52
So that will rule the layers and the display of your object
19:55
and also the content of your label.
19:57
And that will also rule the display of your corridor.
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So I will show you a brief demo about it.
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Here, I have my surface.
20:05
But that doesn't really give me a lot of information.
20:09
So to help me to analyze certain topic,
20:12
I can go to my surface properties.
20:21
And I can select different style.
20:23
So for example here, you see I have my arrows
20:26
to define the slope.
20:30
Here, I can see the border and elevation, and so on.
20:34
So the elevations confirm here that analysis, like that.
20:40
So you can configurate the display of your Civil 3D
20:45
objects to help you in your analysis.
20:56
So I change the display.
20:58
So for example, my survey is [? plain, ?]
21:00
I prefer to have a background style.
21:05
So that for me, it is here too.
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I have a look on my project.
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And this is an example on the surface.
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But for example, if I select a cross-section, it's the same.
21:15
I select my cross-section object.
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I go to the Section View Property.
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And I can say, OK, I want to change the style.
21:26
And the style is for example, important for the display.
21:32
But [? here's ?] to for the vertical exaggeration.
21:38
So the style rules everything in Civil 3D.
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It's very important.
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For the corridor, it's a bit more complex.
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For example here, I have my corridor, the 3D style,
21:52
I don't really see if I am in [? cutting ?] field, like it's
21:56
all in pink.
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So it's an example.
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But if I go to my Corridor Properties,
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and I go to the Code Style Tab, and I change to All Codes,
22:14
and you see here now, it's better.
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For example, here you can see in the green, that
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means I am in the field area.
22:20
And when I am in red, that mean in cut area.
22:22
In [INAUDIBLE] view, for example.
22:29
So this is what you see here in marked-off section.
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For example, you see here I am in the field area,
22:33
so it's green.
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And in red because I'm in cut area.
22:37
But instead of doing my cross-sections,
22:41
because it takes a bit of time to create my cross-sections,
22:44
I can already use a certain [? code, ?] a set
22:47
style of my corridor to already have a look directly from plan
22:52
view.
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So the style is very important to add view
22:55
to design in Civil 3D.
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For the style, the styles are stored in the template,
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in the format DWT or in the AutoCAD DWG format.
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If by mistake, you are missing a style,
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there's different ways to import or reference the style.
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I recommend you to reference the style.
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And then we'll explain why later.
23:20
Here, I have this file.
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In this file, I go to the settings tab.
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And as you can see, I have no style
23:28
at all, just one surface style.
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I just don't have one.
23:31
If I go to my alignment, [INAUDIBLE]
23:35
and so on and so on.
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So what you can do, and the [INAUDIBLE] this way
23:40
is you go to the Manage Tab.
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And you go to Reference.
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And you will be able to reference the style
23:47
of another template or DWG.
23:52
For example here, I select a DWG.
23:56
And that we reference the state of my DWG.
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Obviously, because in a Civil 3D file,
24:10
you can have a lot of settings, that takes a bit of time.
24:15
So after selecting the right DWT or DWG,
24:19
you select which style you want to reference.
24:22
So you can say, none of them, or all of them, and so on.
24:26
And you can select I only want the surface and so on.
24:31
So for example for the video, I would just use surface.
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As a result, we see the different styles coming
24:45
as a reference with this icon.
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And why I advise you to use a reference,
24:52
is because if I change the style in this file
24:57
by synchronizing the template that
24:60
will modify our [? source ?] of style you have in your file
25:04
here.
25:05
OK.
25:05
So if you want to only have one single source of data,
25:10
it's better to add reference.
25:14
If you want to import, obviously, it's easy.
25:17
You have this command to import.
25:21
Otherwise, you can do that manually.
25:23
So for example here, I can go to Master View.
25:30
And I can go to here.
25:31
And for example, I can go to Alignment Style,
25:34
and I can just drag and drop the alignment styles of my corridor
25:39
style drawing to my drawing three like this.
25:44
In this way, you can import.
25:49
So if I go now to my Active Drawing View,
25:53
you see that now I have my different styles of alignment.
25:59
So this is a good trick in case, in your project,
26:02
you are missing certain styles, and you
26:03
need to [? get ?] the styles from another template
26:06
or drawing.
26:08
The template for the plan production is very important.
26:12
We have different types of template.
26:14
We have the plan view only, there's a profile view only,
26:17
there's plan view and profile view
26:18
and the cross-section view.
26:20
Here is a video to show you the importance of the template.
26:26
So here I have my main project.
26:30
And now I want to deliver 2D plans because so far, the PDF
26:36
is the type of deliveries.
26:42
So first, I will check the settings of my template.
26:46
As you can see, there are different type
26:48
of template, imperial unit, metric unit, plan, profile,
26:51
section views and et cetera.
26:55
Because in plan production, we need
26:58
to fit a model into a certain size of the paper,
27:03
we will need to set up, obviously,
27:06
the dimension of the sheet of paper but also the scales.
27:20
Here, this is a confined environment
27:23
for my profile view.
27:24
And I set up my scale, 1 to 2000.
27:28
Also in the [? template ?] block, in the template,
27:31
we will be able to insert some automatic attributes
27:36
such as project name, the dates, the scale,
27:39
the name of the drafter, et cetera, et cetera.
27:43
And when you will create your 2D plans,
27:46
you will use these templates to automatically create
27:49
your plan production.
27:58
So this is the result. I used my model.
28:01
And I used the template I just showed you in the video.
28:04
And this the result I have when I have my plan view
28:08
and my production view, my plan view and profile view.
28:13
Now, this is a subpart, how to share AutoCAD objects.
28:19
So for these vertical AutoCAD software-- so obviously,
28:23
we still have AutoCAD object.
28:25
And we can still use the tool palette
28:28
for blocks, hatches, images, table, XREF, subassemblies.
28:32
And for that, if you want to insert these elements
28:36
in your tool palette, you can use the Design Center.
28:39
I will give you a short example right now.
28:41
So here I have my tool palette.
28:47
Well, for example, here I have my elements to design my roads.
28:51
Now what I can do is I would create a new palette,
28:53
and I would say, blocks, for example.
28:60
And I can go to my Design Center.
29:12
Here, what I do is I will copy all the blocks of this file
29:18
annotation.
29:19
And then we insert these blocks into my tool palette.
29:26
So for example, this, I just drag and drop.
29:31
And then, I can insert my block reference.
29:43
So this is a way how you can customize easily
29:46
certain AutoCAD entities, AutoCAD objects by creating
29:51
a new palette and by copying and transferring AutoCAD objects.
29:55
Now for the Civil 3D Object.
29:58
In the catalog, we have the subassemblies
30:01
to create the [? reservoirs. ?] OK we have also the [INAUDIBLE]
30:05
pipe networks.
30:06
And we have the pipe pressure network.
30:11
So the Pipe Network Catalog, by default,
30:14
is located at the C drive program data, Autodesk,
30:18
Civil 3D, and the version you are using.
30:20
enu if you are in English.
30:23
For example, if you are French, backslash pipe catalog.
30:26
If you want your colleagues to use the same objects to design
30:30
your pipe catalogs, they need to have exactly
30:33
the same pipe catalog as you.
30:35
So in order to achieve this, you will
30:38
need to share all the resources inside the pipe catalog
30:42
to your colleagues.
30:44
The second point, Civil 3D allows
30:47
you to bring intelligence when you design your pipe catalog.
30:51
The 3D agent is assigned by the rules.
30:54
We call that pipe styles or pipe rules.
30:57
It's a rule to create and design your pipe network
31:01
as stored in your template, in the styles.
31:04
So that's why, again, the styles, coming from the DWT
31:07
or coming from the DWG is very important.
31:11
It is the same for the pressure pipe network.
31:13
So pressure pipe network use what we call
31:16
sqlite format, sqlite file.
31:19
And you will need to share all the sqlite files
31:22
to your colleagues in order they can design
31:24
the same elements as you do.
31:26
It's very important, in case for your project maybe,
31:30
you will have to customize certain element.
31:32
And if you customize certain element,
31:34
you will have to share these files to your colleagues.
31:37
And again, you will have to share
31:39
the template and the styles.
31:41
So this works for the pipe network and the pressure pipe
31:45
network.
31:46
Now for the subassemblies.
31:47
So assemblies is again an object in Civil 3D
31:51
to create your corridor.
31:52
It's a corridor element
31:55
Autodesk already developed a tool palette
31:58
where you have subassemblies.
31:59
But you can add your own subassembly
32:03
that you created in Subassembly Composer.
32:05
But you can have also access to other subassemblies
32:08
by using the country kits.
32:10
And you can insert manually your subassemblies.
32:13
In case you created your own subassemblies,
32:17
you will need to share the subassemblies
32:19
to your colleagues.
32:20
And it's not very easy.
32:23
Here, I show you a video.
32:25
And in this video, I simulate one,
32:28
the screen of the first person and the queen
32:31
of the second person.
32:33
The first person developed a subassembly, a customized
32:37
subassembly and a customized tool palette.
32:40
And the first person will share his customized tool palette
32:43
with his customized elements to the second person.
32:47
So in my example, this person A, person B.
32:55
So here, person A will use a certain profile,
32:60
a profile that he customized.
33:02
I call that custom profile.
33:11
Now since he set up the custom profile,
33:14
he has a custom tool palette, as you can see here, custom
33:19
subassembly.
33:22
Here, this is a Person B. The Person
33:24
B has a normal standard Civil 3D profile.
33:28
And he has a virgin palette with no elements.
33:34
So in this video, I will show you
33:36
how to transfer the data from the person A to the person B.
33:40
And you will see, it's not easy at all.
33:42
You will have to export the user profile.
33:45
You will have to export or to copy
33:48
the elements in the register tool,
33:51
the elements from the tool palette,
33:52
and the elements from the imported tools.
33:56
So this is what I'm doing right now in the video.
33:59
I take the elements of the registered tools.
34:01
And I copy, paste into the second computer.
34:07
Here I do that manually.
34:09
So that it's easy to understand what you need to copy, paste.
34:13
But know that it's possible to automate
34:17
this with a batch [? timer. ?]
34:27
And after copying the folders, the architecture,
34:31
and all the elements coming from the user profile register
34:35
tools, so the palette imported tools,
34:37
so person B will have the
34:40
palette that was customized by the person A.
35:04
Now the person B import the profile he just imported.
35:11
He selects the right Civil 3D profile,
35:14
so it's a custom profile.
35:15
And now he will have the custom tool palette created
35:19
by his colleague, person A. And here just to finish,
35:23
I just show that you can create, obviously, an assembly based
35:26
on the elements.
35:27
So this is the way, when you customize
35:30
elements like [INAUDIBLE] structures, pipes,
35:34
or subassemblies to create your corridor,
35:36
this is how you share these objects to your colleagues
35:40
so that all people have the same elements.
35:43
Thank you for watching this presentation.
35:45
I hope it was very helpful for you.
35:47
And if you have any questions, please
35:50
do not hesitate to contact your customer success specialist.
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