The way Civil Designer works, is that all the design
data is store in a database, and is shown graphically
on the screen. A quick test to see if an item on the
screen is a CAD or database item is to double click on
the item, if you can select it in this way and a
screen appears allowing you to edit the properties of
the selection, then it is a CAD item. Database items
cannot be selected by double clicking with the mouse.
To create a drawing in Civil Designer, you need to
first generate a plot. The Plot Menu is available in
all modes except for Survey Mode. Civil Designer also
provides the user with pre-defined sheet files that
are used when generating the plots. These sheet files
can be edited with the Sheet File Editor.
The beauty of this system is you can create many
different types of drawings from one project. These
include plan view, long section and cross section
drawings.
How to generate drawings
From the project above, we are going to generate a
plan and a long section drawing.
Select the Plot › Generate menu option.
The plot expert opens, select your sheet file and
sheet size.
Click [Next] to continue. The next dialog that appears allows
you to select the lists that can be generated on the
drawing. Don't change the Start-X, Start-Y values.
During the plot generation you can move these lists.
Click [Next] to continue. The next screen that appears, gives
the option to select the drawing scale, if the drawing
will be cartesian or surveyor and various options for
defining the area that needs to be plotted.
Clicking on [Add New] allows you to define the plotting area;
once this is selected an entry will appear in the
table.
Click on [Finish] to generate the plot. Once the plot has been
generated, you have the option to save the drawing.
The drawing can be saved as a AllyCAD drawing, AutoCAD
DXF or DWG or a Caddie CEX file.
After selecting the type of file to save the new plan layout will
appear on the screen.
Now using the same project, a sewer long section drawing will be
created.
Click [Next] to continue.
Each sheet file has different settings depending on
what type of drawing is being generated. On the long
section, the user has the option to specify which
manholes are plotted, the scales, and if there will be
label levels at manholes, ground break points or even
chainages.
Click [Next] to continue.
Click [Finish] to generate the long section.
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