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Civil 3D Baseline Interval Trick

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(@surveyordave96)
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Iƒ??m sure most of you know this function by now, however, Im putting this out there with the hopes someone might be out of the loop. It saved me at least a full day in the office so figured Iƒ??d post it on here. If you want a quick and simple way to create points at certain intervals along a baseline, follow the steps below.

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Posted : 24/06/2021 12:44 pm
(@brad-ott)
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Is that like the DIVIDE command, but probably more powerful?

 
Posted : 24/06/2021 12:57 pm
(@lurker)
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I feel sorry for the guy who has to stake that. That is so flat water will evaporate long before it ever flows.

 
Posted : 24/06/2021 1:13 pm
(@rover83)
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@brad-ott?ÿ

Closer to MEASURE than DIVIDE, but it's specifically for C3D alignments, can generate points left or right of the feature, and doesn't have to be a standard interval. I haven't used it in a while, but it is killer for generating points from ROW/road plansets. Especially if you can extract the station/offset text from the PDFs to drop into Excel...

 
Posted : 24/06/2021 1:17 pm
(@chris-bouffard)
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I'm a Carlson SurvCad user and they have a routine in Cogo where you can interval along an entity and set your point stationing along the baseline.?ÿ I typically use 50' along the tangents and 25' stations along longer curves, draw my lines in my design drawing or an engineering drawing I reference in, in the direction I want the points to go, and let the software do the rest.?ÿ If you are staking curbing, or things of the like, you can create a centerline profile, input vertical curve info with PVC PVI and PVT, then offset the centerline and adjust it up for your curb reveal and you saved yourself a ton of work on larger jobs.?ÿ It will calculate hundreds of points in seconds.

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Posted : 24/06/2021 1:28 pm
(@jitterboogie)
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@lurker?ÿ

I had a project that flat last year.....huge PITA!

 
Posted : 24/06/2021 1:48 pm
(@surveyordave96)
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@lurker haha I just put some random numbers in for visual purposes

 
Posted : 24/06/2021 2:03 pm
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