Yes, with Civil3D I see Autodesk is finally leaving behind the DCA methodogy
legacy.
Thanks for your responses. :-)
Dave D.
"Don Reichle" wrote in message
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> Typo correction...
> I see the greatest potential...
>
> Yes, I'm Anal Retentive; and your point is? :-)
>
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> Don Reichle
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> "King of Work-Arounds"
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> "Don Reichle" wrote in message
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>> Hey Dave;
>>
>> I greatest potential for C3D IMHO is in the arena of preliminary design.
>> When the client is playing the What If? game, we will be able to give
>> them just about real-time answers. That's what is generating most of my
>> excitement.
>>
>> I was able to create the FG profile that would suit the design needs of
>> the project, and then by grip editing the horizontal alignment find the
>> best spot for it WRT the existing ground.
>>
>> I'm prepared to take the flack I expect re. my view of BTTWWADI (see
>> below), but I'm convinced that the process will need tweaking to take
>> advantage of this paradigm shift, as James Wedding was quoted during the
>> Civil Express Tour.
>>
>> --
>> Don Reichle
>> Hacker Engineering, Inc.
>> "King of Work-Arounds"
>> LDT & CD 2004
>> C3D 2004 SP1
>> On HP Pavilion a367c
>> 2.80 Ghz/512MB RAM
>> XP PRO - SP2
>>
>>
>> "Dave D" wrote in message
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>>> Thanks Don.
>>>
>>> Yeah, those "canned" presentations are great, but while in the midst of
>>> actually doing real world design, it takes just a bit longer to work out
>>> the numbers. If it only took 12 minutes to do a real design, a lot of
>>> people would be out of work.
>>>
>>> I understand what you are really saying though, and I agree. The
>>> software is becoming easier to use and more intuitive. It's sometimes
>>> tough to break old ways of doing things. I'll come to terms with it.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave D.
>>>
>>> "Don Reichle" wrote in message
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>>>> Hey Dave;
>>>>
>>>> I'll let the gurus address the "Where is it?" portion of your post. I'm
>>>> sure that they haven't done away with it. It just may take some
>>>> searching to find where it lives now.
>>>>
>>>> As to your cumbersome observation;
>>>> I watched Lori Copeland at the Civil Express Tour in Anaheim last
>>>> Thursday start with a Horizontal Alignment;
>>>> Progress to a Finish Profile;
>>>> Create an Assembly (Template) for her Corridor Design;
>>>> Calculate a FG Surface, complete with contours;
>>>> Calculate a Dirt Quantity;
>>>> all in 12 minutes, which included time for explaining what she was
>>>> doing, and fielding questions from the audience.
>>>>
>>>> Cumbersome, you say?
>>>>
>>>> I, for one, am thinking NOT!
>>>>
>>>> What they did try to get across to the crowd, was that some of us would
>>>> find it necessary to re-think the way we do designs. This kind of
>>>> re-education is a good thing, IMHO.
>>>>
>>>> It's time to take the phrase "But that's the way we've always done it!"
>>>> and bury it deep in an unmarked grave somewhere in the desert where the
>>>> shifting sands will forever hide its resting place.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Don Reichle
>>>> Hacker Engineering, Inc.
>>>> "King of Work-Arounds"
>>>> LDT & CD 2004
>>>> C3D 2004 SP1
>>>> On HP Pavilion a367c
>>>> 2.80 Ghz/512MB RAM
>>>> XP PRO - SP2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Dave D" wrote in message
>>>> news:4190db56$1_3@newsprd01...
>>>>> What happened to the Vertical Alignment Editor in Civil3D? Seems a
>>>>> lot more cumbersome to add information. I especially liked the
>>>>> Calculator option in LDT, so you could figure out K values for
>>>>> vertical curves before it actually gets applied to the design file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave D.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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