Moving back into Civil 3D, and after tidying up your tool pallet you're now ready to set the presets. But it’s probably easier to do this in Civil 3D, especially if you are unfamiliar with Subassembly Composer. Whilst you are in the Subassembly Composer, you can change any of the strange preset values, such as a 5m footpath. It will give you the option to select its properties when you bring it into a Civil drawing. Again, save the file and import the subassembly as before. Just change that to “Left” or “Right” (it doesn’t matter which). In the Input/Output tab, you’ll see that the side is set to “None” or “Default”. In Subassembly Composer you can fix this too just open the pkt file as above and it will appear like this: When you put them on the right, they appear the wrong way round. You may notice that they only work on the left hand side of the assembly. Next you might try the new Surface Water Channel, or the new Swale, or Footpath with Swale.
Civil 3d opens as autocad software#
Go to the Superelevation tab in the bottom right hand side of the software and uncheck the “Show in Preview” option on the Right Outside Lane Slope row. Save the file and import the subassembly as before. pkt files from ‘C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 2018\eng\Imported Tools\Source’, which should look like this:
Civil 3d opens as autocad windows#
Just hit the Windows key on your keyboard and type ‘subas.’, and it should appear in the list before you finish the whole name. For those of you that have not used this before, it comes with Civil 3D and unless you deselected it during installation, you should have it. If you try the new Detailed Carriageway and turn on Superelevation you might find that the right-hand carriageway shows a 5% slope, regardless of what you set it at. This was an issue in 2016 and is easily fixed. Whilst we are on the subject, here are a couple of other things you can do in Subassembly Composer as well: This will work as before, and you’ll probably need to do the Kerbs, Channel and Edges too. Now go to the tool pallet, and at the bottom of the list is the one you have just imported. If this is going to be shared it makes sense. It’s up to you if you want to add them to the Catalog Library. You can choose a toolpallet as you can see in the image, I’ve created my own. Next, select the component you want, for example British Kerbs, and tick Import To: Tool Palette. ‘C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\C3D 2018\eng\Imported Tools\Source’. In the Import Subassemblies window navigate to the source files here: In Autodesk Civil 3D 2018 go to the Insert Tab and select Import Subassemblies. Handily, the very nice people at Autodesk have provided us with all the source files so that we can easily fix these things ourselves. When you select them and place them on an assembly, it looks like this: There might even be an open top bus parade and people will name libraries after you… OK, maybe not all that, but at least you will have UK standard Kerbs in your 2018 drawings.įirstly, you might have an issue whereby the UK Kerbs, Channels and Edgings don’t work. If you can’t wait for a fix, you can sort them yourselves and be the “go to guy” in your office, winning admiration and accolades from your fellow Engineers. Now that the UKIE AutoCAD Civil 3D Country Kit is available we’ve had a look at it and there are a couple of things that have gone slightly awry.