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Pipe Network Profile styles and labels should be transferred when using plan production tools

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When using Plan Production Tools. Pipe network styles and labels in plan view do not get carried through to the new drawing. It simply defaults back to the default styles in command settings.

Can we please add a way to use the styles and profile labels specified in the drawing that we create the sheets from. Particularly on larger projects, its really annoying to have to open all the sheets a respecify all the labels we already specified.

See Screencast for full explanation

Image kind of explains it below.

Profile Before Plan Production

Profile After Plan Production

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Modelling

Diagnosing the Surface Pasting Problem – “Error Performing Edit”

We all get these from time to time. Unfortunately Civil 3D is rather vague about what is causing this error.

  or  2016 error adding boundary

^^^^ I HATE YOU ^^^^^

I can tell you empirically that the primary cause almost 99% of the time is a boundary that has been added to a surface somewhere along the chain that needs to be cleaned up.

A few people will suggest using things like MAPCLEAN and WEEDFEATURES to fix over complicated boundaries lines and breaklines and these methods do help. But they don’t always work.

A great method for fix this is to use the OVERKILL command. It will remove overlapping segments that are duplicates within a polygon. Commonly this comes from output from other software!

overkill commandoverkill result

If you still have no luck try a method that I have used for years. Simply “STEPPEDOFFSET it out and then STEPPEDOFFSET it back in” maybe 0.5m or so.. (note: occasionally you may need to offset it back in 1 mm different, so back in 0.499m)

I have over exaggerated this to explain the issue, but here is what an offset does to a messy line with overlaps and duplicate vertices

Just whatever you do, don’t go extracting the triangles and re-adding them to a surface!!!!

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Drawing Management, Modelling

Importing 12DA files doesnt work?… Try This

UPDATE: *.12daz files are just zip files. Rename it to <YOURFILE>.zip and extract the *.12da file within

If anyone has been trying to use the 12DA import extension for Civil 3D and it isn’t working. Read on!

I have been having problems importing latest 12DA files. It doesn’t import anything for some reason.

A simple change to the 12DA files encoding fixes the error. Get NOTEPAD ++ Download Here

Old 12DA files encoded with “UTF-8 without BOM” will work. However new ones encoded with “UCS-2 Little Endian” won’t convert them and save as shown below. All working again!

Extra Bonus (courtesy lem_1020)

“Saved this way it actually allows you to open new version 12da projects in old 12d model versions also.”

Kapanther

Original Post Here

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D-General/A-note-for-People-Importing-12DA-files/td-p/4470095

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