I am working on a big storm drainage project. It covers alot of area so we dicided to break the project in three parts. Each part is being worked on seperatly at the same time. What i want to compile all the drawings at the end of each day into one overall drawing. When I Xref these drawings, can the attached drawings be worked on and edited in my overall drawing? It seems like when they come in they are a block and can't be edited. Should they just be exploded? And if so, will there duplicate surfaces and objects when i put these drawings together?
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Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
So my project is a storm drainage network for large area. There is three of us working on it at once. So what I did was create a surface and save it as three different drawings. I guess it would have been easier to xref the surface in after but thats besides the point. I didnt know more people would be working on this with at that point.
In each drawings there is alignments, pipe networks, and profiles. Each drawing is being worked on in different locations of the project area. In my overall drawing I want to take the profiles, aligment and pipe networks the other drafters created and work on the pipe slopes as the other drafters are only creating the alignment, networks and profiles for me.
I would say Xref anything not C3D and Data Reference everything else. Then do your edits in the individual files. Once you are done you can promote and merge the neworks. This should get rid of the duplicate alingments and surfaces. You may end up with duplicate structures, but just delete one of them and join to the one left.
I've had to do this with a very large development in Fort with that was going to be completed in three phases. At the end of the day we needed to submit a final model of everything. We even did one better and gave the City of Ft Worth GIS data of all the networks to put in there ESRI database.
This sounds like it applies to what I am trying to do. I will mark this as soltution. Hopefully when I start my data shortcuts everything flows nice and easy.
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