Creating Feature Lines

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NARRATOR: Hello and welcome to Feature Lines

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in Project Explorer.

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My name is Russ Nicloy, Civil Solutions Specialist

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at MACER Technologies.

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In this course we are looking at Project Explorer for Civil 3D

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which is an environment that allows

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you to work with and analyze objects in your design pile.

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This session is part 1 of

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Currently we are looking at how to create and edit feature

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lines through Project Explore.

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In this learning path we are at the Creating Feature Lines

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course.

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This session will look at how to create feature lines,

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how to manipulate the feature lines properties,

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and how to create feature lines from Civil 3D objects all

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through Project Explorer.

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Of course the first thing we need to do

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is open Project Explore, I'm going

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to go to the add-ins ribbon and open the Project Explore.

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And in the Project Explorer we're

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going to access the feature lines tool that's

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on this tab right here.

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Feature lines tab and you can see that there are already

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feature lines in the file, but we're going

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to create a feature line here.

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First, actually going to create a site,

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you don't have to do this obviously,

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this is the same as doing a feature line in Civil 3D.

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But we are going to create a site,

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so that this can be on its own site away from everything else.

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I'm going to zoom in where the feature lines is going to go.

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We're going to put a ditch near this roadway here.

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And then I'm going to use the first icon

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on that upper section to create a feature line.

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And here you can see the site that we've already given it.

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You could create it or change it here as well.

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I'm going to give it a name so I can find it later,

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and I'll leave the style as it is.

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I'll click OK, and then come in and draw that feature line.

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I'm going to lock like a point here.

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I'm going to give it to the surface elevation

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there for the existing ground surface.

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Drop a point in the middle, this is

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going to be our drainage point later on.

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I'm going to give that a zero grade,

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I don't really care about that now, I'll

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come back and fix that later.

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I'm going to put another point in here, which again we're

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tying into the surface, so I'll type SU,

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and tied to the surface there.

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And there you can see that line, tied to the surface here

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and at the end, but has a flat portion

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in the middle until we fix it.

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Now, you can see down below, in this middle window,

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ditch line is at the bottom.

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It's one of the feature lines that we have in our area there.

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I realized that I need to change the name and the style,

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I didn't really give it what I should have in the beginning.

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I'm clicking off of it so you can

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see that this text is magenta and so is the feature line

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style text.

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That means it's editable, black text

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is not but the magenta text is.

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So, I'm going to double click on the name

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and I forgot that there is a self rating as well.

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So, this is the north ditch line and the basic feature line,

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I want to change that to the corridor ditch style,

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I'll click OK.

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Something else that we need to look at

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is the fact that you can build feature lines,

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not only natively but from Civil 3D objects.

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If I come back up to the Create tool,

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we have from objects, from alignment, from corridor,

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and from step to offset.

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I'm going to use the Create feature lines from step

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to offset.

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That way I can use the feature line that I just created there.

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I'll offset the distance five feet, slack the object,

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slack to side to offset, and then the elevation difference,

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I'll go with one foot difference.

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I'll hit escape to let go of that

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and now we have that second line.

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Actually I'm looking for the site right there.

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So, we can build these future lines

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from other objects as well as natively.