Civil Engineering 3D Design

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Railway Section

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App Options Panel

Object Properties Panel

Predefined Queries

Customizing Preferences

Tutorial: Using Geolocation and B.I. Essentials

Positioning a Terrain

Assessing Geolocation Positioning within a Product Structure

Diagnosing Geolocation Issues and Fixing Them

Converting Geolocation Coordinates in Another Coordinate Reference System

Handling Geolocation

Geolocation Concepts

About Geolocation

About Coordinate Reference Systems

About Geolocation Positioning

Managing CRS for Geomaticians

Identifying a CRS and Importing it

Creating a CRS

Editing a CRS

Adding a Geolocated Point

Positioning a Terrain

Shifting the Origin

Converting Geolocation Coordinates in another Coordinate Reference System

Dynamically Determining a Geometrical Element's Position

Displaying the Geolocated Position

Product Attributes, Construction Classification Standards, and Attributes Spreadsheet

Why Specify and Review BIM attributes?

About Construction Classification Standards

Adding and Editing Object Attributes

Searching for Objects

Copying BIM attribute Extensions

Analyzing BIM Attributes

Creating, Updating, and Using a Link Spreadsheet

Alignment Design

Creating Alignments

About the Alignment Design Process

About Visualization

About Rotation Modes on a Road/Railway Surface

About Points

Managing Horizontal Alignments

Creating a Horizontal Alignment

Creating a Horizontal Curve

Creating a Transition

Managing Vertical Alignments

About Vertical Alignment

Creating a Vertical Alignment

About Z Scaling

Creating a Z Scaling

Computing Excavation and Filling Volumes

Controlling Impacts on Vertical Alignment

Using Specific Safety Criteria in Vertical Alignment

Managing 3D Alignments

Creating a 3D Alignment

Experiencing Simulations on 3D Alignments

Creating a 3D Point on a 3D Alignment

Creating Reports

About Alignment Reports

Generating an Alignment Report

Generating a 2D Layout Table

Managing Multiple Stationing

About Multiple Stationing and Station Equations

Modifying the Geometry Before a Station Equation

Modifying the Geometry After a Station Equation

Modifying the Geometry by Creating Two Station Equations

Displaying Vertical Alignment Stationing in Horizontal Alignment

General Design

Design Disciplines

About Current Civil Set

Creating a Platform Cross Section and Associated Object Types

Creating a Platform Earthwork

Road and Railway Design

Creating a Road Surface

About Surface Elements

Designing a Road Surface

Editing Superelevation Locally

Widening a Road Surface

Creating a Railway Surface

About Railway

Creating a Railway Surface

Creating a Railway Subgrade Surface

About Typical Cross Section

About Association of Cross Section to Object Type

Creating Typical Cross Sections

Creating a UDF-based Typical Cross Section and Associated Object Types for Subgrades

Creating a UDF- or Sketch-based Typical Cross Section and Associated Object Types for Earthworks

Creating a Stretch Set

Creating a Linear Stretch

Creating or Splitting the Subgrade Layer of an Infrastructure

Creating or Splitting a Road/Railway Earthwork

Bridge Design

About the Bridge Design Assistant

Creating the Bridge Layout Distribution

Defining or Editing the Bridge Layout

Defining or Editing the Type and Object Types of Bridge Elements

Generating the Bridge 3D Model

Editing the Bridge Locally

Customizing the Display of the Bridge

Defining and Editing a Bridge with a Bridge Table

Component-based Design

Component based-Design Concepts

About Component-based Design

About Specifications Features and Objects Types

About Capture Component Specification Options

Defining Specification Features

Defining Specification Patterns

Managing Linear Patterns

About Linear Patterns

Creating a Linear Pattern

Customizing a Linear Pattern

Managing Curvilinear Patterns

About Curvilinear Patterns

Creating a Curvilinear Pattern

Customizing Curvilinear Patterns

Using the Frenet Trihedron Axis Orientation

Managing Selection Patterns

About Selection Patterns

Creating a Selection Pattern

Managing Pattern Tables

About Pattern Tables

Creating a Pattern Table

Creating a Copy Pattern

Creating a Holes Pattern

Editing Patterns

Specifying and Editing Inputs for Instantiation

Defining Input Patterns

Defining Specifications

Customizing Specification Feature Naming and Numbering

Tagging and Publishing Semantic Geometry Elements

Creating Label Sets

About Label Sets

Creating Label Sets

Splitting Geometry

Managing Polyhedral Entities

Working with Polyhedral Entities in Civil Engineering 3D Design

Extracting and Converting a Portion of a Large Point Cloud into a Polyhedral Mesh

Working with Dynamic Visu Assistant

About Dynamic Visu Assistant

Managing Visualization Using Dynamic Visu Assistant

Measuring a Point with Respect to a Reference

Creating Imports

About the Import Creation Command

Creating Imports

Using a Bounding Box

Hiding Large Cloud of Points

Extracting and Converting a Portion of a Large Point Cloud into a Regular Point Cloud

OSM Map Files

About OSM Map Files

Importing an OSM File

Importing City Objects

Reference Information

Knowledge Packages

AECPackageTypes (no NLS) Methods

AECPackageTypes Types

Road Surface Laws

Design Range Management

About Data Setup for Civil Engineering 3D Design