Getting back into 3d after being away from it a year.
How can you tell which sub assemblies have targets and which don't? The catalog doesn't specifiy. It has less information than the sub assembly help.
In the subassenbly help scroll down to target paremeters it will list target objects or else target parameters none
I was hoping for a list or faster method.
I added the basic daylight, then discovered that it doesn't seem to have an option for specifying a ditch profile, as I want a ditch in both cut & fill. (2009)
It seems I will need to use the conditional sub assembly from 2010 to do this, as I am not seeming this as an option under the other day light sub assemblies. Or am I missing something?
I also am having problems with feature lines and gradings crashing and locking up in 2009. I was hoping for more stability from the old LDD. Does is get better in 2010 & 2011?
I see - well the basic sub assemblies were shipped with the first release of Civil 3D which was not for production.
Since that time there have been a host of new assemblies added, that can do a lot more. I would recommend the basic assemblies not be used for production work and use the others. Not knowing what you want to achieve have a look at the DaylightBasin this one may be the solution.
Stability - 2010 not much better I noticed a little improvement over 2009 with the 3 gig switch set. Switching to windows 7 64x and up the ram to 6 gig big improvement.
2011 64x version and windows 7 64x with 8 gig better again.
The daylight basin might work. Works great for swales cross country. Will look into parameters again.
I was hoping for excavated swale instead of filled berm swale though. A filled berm swale will result in 2 parralel swales that need to be stabilized.
The link slope to surface, then cut swale in, the back up to surface is more what I had in mind, but that would be a conditional subassembly for fill conditions only & 2009 doesn't do that.