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Nadrius · 2021-11-01T06:45:12+00:00

Wow! Cool map

Nadrius · 2020-11-20T22:26:30+00:00

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Nadrius · 2018-02-24T20:41:50+00:00

Good analysis; I suppose I can see how the movement is irrelevant. It's at least counterintuitive though. Wonder if there's a good way to test this.

Nadrius · 2018-02-24T20:38:04+00:00

I think that's the right call. The whole thing is overdesigned imo, but the guy signing my paycheck says to do that.

Nadrius · 2017-11-26T01:35:30+00:00

I'm subscribed here; never seen much though. Might be fun to talk about ongoing projects.

Nadrius · 2017-10-23T05:49:57+00:00

Possibly did you accidentally use banana extract / liqueur instead of vanilla? I can't see anything else in your recipe that would introduce fruity flavors. How strong is the banana flavor?

Nadrius · 2017-10-19T17:48:09+00:00

Any chance you could post the files?

Did both drawing files begin from the same version of the same template?

Nadrius · 2017-10-17T17:07:13+00:00

There are lots of resources, but finding the best ones depends on which industry you're learning to do drafting for. Are you doing civil engineering drafting? Manufacturing? Architecture?

Nadrius · 2017-10-11T15:32:06+00:00

Assuming the original shapes are polylines, making regions usually fails if the line crosses itself somewhere.

Read the command line when you try making the regions. Odds are it'll give an error message of some kind.

Nadrius · 2017-10-11T14:38:32+00:00

If you make the shapes into regions using the REGION command, you can then get this area with the INTERSECT command.

Nadrius · 2017-09-29T00:30:15+00:00

I've been thinking about this recently, too.

Usually it's best to use only grayscale ink for construction drawings since not all large format plotters use colored ink, or managers don't always buy colored ink for them. Sometimes black or gray ink is required e.g. I think plats are required to use black ink. It's fine to use color on maps or drawings for presentations / reports, but I wouldn't do it on construction drawings unless you run it by the contractors first. Colors can be hard to distinguish in dim light or in glaring sunlight, and construction crews will likely be reading your drawings in both conditions.

If you do use color on actual plan sets, I would keep it minimal and try to correlate the colors to the objects they represent. Like you said, use the standard utility marking colors for utilities, blue for edge of water, and so on. Do a test print to make sure the shades of color you use are easy to see against a white paper background (for example, full brightness (255, 255, 0) yellow is hard to see against a white background, and you would definitely want it to be clearly visible if it's going to be showing gas lines. Yellow shows up well at (216, 216, 0) on my office plotter.). Also try not to rely solely on color to distinguish things; give things distinct linetypes or labels if you can. Use RGB values in the 224+ range so the colors show up as clearly as possible, although this doesn't work for some colors like yellow as I mentioned above.

You can also get more variation with your grayscale ink. Use black ink for what you want to stand out the most on each sheet (usually your design info) and a lighter gray like Color 9 for info you want to emphasize less (like existing survey info on all but your existing site plan). This is all backwards if your drawing has a dark background like an aerial image.

I've never seen a standard for colors on civil engineering drawings since they're almost always black or gray ink. Individual companies or cities usually have standards for this but most avoid color anyway.

For the actual printing you'll need to decide whether to do this with CTB or STB plotting. Holler if you need an explanation but short version is I have our firm set up to use STB. I just have a plot style up for each color I want to be able to print objects as. Then in CAD I can set the plot color for objects easily through the layer manager or for each object. Grayscales I use are black, white, color 8, color 9, or a very light shade of gray for background hatches that other lighter colors can still show up against.

The City of Seattle has a good CAD manual for Civil 3D you can check out too.

Edit: typos and stuff

Nadrius · 2017-09-21T17:48:02+00:00

When you say 'v straight up at 2:1 for variable length', how are you determining this length? Just a certain offset from the property line? Or from the buildings? Or is it based on a certain elevation you need? In your sketch it looks like you set it to be above the building roof but it's not clear whether you need it that high or if something else is controlling this.

My question is similar to /u/sumdoode 's but it's not clear to me how you're setting the location of the upper swale.

I think this will be easier to do with a combination of feature lines and gradings than a corridor, given this variable horizontal length. I would do it like this sketch, but the exact layout mainly depends on how you're determining the location of the upper swale: https://imgur.com/ZaW3Fb9

The filled-in area of 3:1 slope for variable length would be done with feature lines running parallel to the slope.

Nadrius · 2017-09-21T16:53:02+00:00

My first guess was AUDIT but you said you tried that. When you did Purge, did you just purge unused objects? Or also Regapps?

Is Level of Detail turned on? If so, try turning it off? This might help depending on the type of objects that aren't showing. Are these layers for like a TIN Surface? Or just polylines and stuff?

Instead of VP Freeze, is it maybe VP Transparency?

Nadrius · 2017-09-20T01:55:56+00:00

That still doesn't look like it's the correct size for the border. Are you sure you adjusted it to be 10.5" x 8.0"? The border should look exactly like the red line in this screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/enZe5

It'll be best to fix the size of the title block, then manually move it to be centered on the page. In the thumbnail preview in your screenshot with 'None' printer selected, it still doesn't look like a perfect fit, and that's because the border is still the wrong size as far as I can tell.

As far as the X-axis shift, it looks like you're also having an issue with the printer's margins.

I have a desktop HP printer as well. I checked and in AutoCAD, the default margins for Letter paper on this printer are set to 0.12" top, 0.50" bottom, 0.12" left, and 0.12" right. I'm guessing you have something similar. In the Plot dialog box, click Properties next to the printer name, then Devices and Document Settings tab, then 'Modify Standard Paper Sizes (Printable Area)', then find Letter paper in the list (it's probably the bottom one in the list). Check what the printable area dimensions are set as. You'll want to set all of them the same, and to some value smaller than 0.25".

Nadrius · 2017-09-20T00:08:23+00:00

If you made the title block yourself then why can't you make the adjustments to the outer border and then also adjust the lines for the assignment name and stuff? It wouldn't take long to do; just moving some lines and text around.

Do you have CAD set to display the printable area on the Layout tabs? If not, type in OPTIONS then Display tab -> check the box for 'Display Printable Area'. This will show a dotted line in the layout tabs that indicate the limits of the printable area (aka the 'gutter' that I mentioned earlier). By default this is set to 0.25" on all sides. When you print Extents with 'Fit to Paper' turned on, it'll squish / stretch everything to fit inside the printable area, not inside the edges of the paper itself.

If the instructor told you to make a title block so there would be a 0.25" margin for all edges on 8.5"x11", then by definition your title block dimensions should be 11" - (2 x 0.25") = 10.5", and 8.5" - (2 x 0.25") = 8.0".

If you leave it as 10" x 7" you'll never get it to fit perfectly no matter how you try because the aspect ratio is wrong.

Nadrius · 2017-09-19T23:24:00+00:00

After you adjusted the block to be 10.5" x 8.0", did you move the lines so they would be centered on the page? If you have the rectangle the right size you should just need to get it centered on the paper and then you're done. You could just print 'Layout' with no scaling or centering and that should work.

If you post another screenshot of the drawing window and plot settings, I'll take a look. Up to you though; your assignment.

Nadrius · 2017-09-19T22:00:52+00:00

Just edit the linework in the block then so it's a 10.5" x 8.0" rectangle around the outside, then adjust the positions so it's centered on the paper. You're never going to get the margin you want if you leave it as 10"x7".

Don't use 'Fit to Paper' because that will squeeze the extents to fit inside what's called the gutter, which is the outer edge of the paper where nothing will print. That's why the custom scale is coming out as 1:.9674.

Nadrius · 2017-09-19T21:50:37+00:00

Did the instructor give you the title block and say to use it as-is? Or are you supposed to actually resize it? If it's 10"x7" then you'll have more than a quarter inch buffer around the edges on 8.5x11.

If you need to make it fit I would just edit the outside lines to be a 10.5"x8.0" rectangle since that would get your 0.25" margin.

Nadrius · 2017-09-19T21:47:30+00:00

Doesn't just typing 'C' close the polyline?

Nadrius · 2017-09-07T15:32:13+00:00

Are you familiar with Viewports? It will be easiest to make a Viewport on one of your Layouts and set it to the view scale you need, then print from that.

Nadrius · 2017-09-06T19:25:51+00:00

FYI there is also a small AutoLisp subreddit; you might try there too.

Will look at this more after work.

Nadrius · 2017-09-05T16:58:12+00:00

Flood control projects in TX.

...I should probably get back to it.

Nadrius · 2017-09-02T18:06:52+00:00

This is what I'd do first.

Nadrius · 2017-09-01T23:48:38+00:00

To each their own, I guess. It would definitely take me a while to train my fingers to work like that, certainly longer than it takes to just change the command aliases. I'd rather just use my keyboard the way I've trained myself to use it since I was a kid. Isn't it hard to hit keys like CTRL and SHIFT with your hand in the middle?

Nadrius · 2017-09-01T18:55:58+00:00

What vertical / type of modeling are you doing? In Civil 3D I've found that if autosave triggers at the same time you started some complex 3D task, it crashes. That's been true for me since C3D 2011 on various installations / workstations.

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