Creating a Drawing
Creating drawings in Civil Designer can be confusing. Many clients change to the CAD mode and then click on the File › Save As option, give a name for the drawing and then save. The problem is that nothing will be saved in the drawing. There are however exceptions, if there is a drawing attached to the project, the drawing portion of the project will be saved but none of the design data i.e. contours, generated banks, survey points etc.
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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