welcome to part 3 of 3 part civil 3D beginners video series if you missed part 2 then click here to check it if you want to learn civil 3D right from scratch with a full length Project based course then click the link in the description of the video or print comment with that let's get started [Music] all right let's go ahead and talk about the plotting process and all the different things you need to do to get your plan sheets your pillow and profile sheets and your cross sections done normally just so you know I do my plan profiles in one drawing I would do my plan plans and another drawing possibly and I would do my cross sections in another file but because of the size of this project and just to do it in this tutorial we'll do it all in one drawing okay before I begin let's take a look what we have so inside this file what I have done is I've actually referenced in everything that I need so I've got my proposed geometry I have my existing geometry Etc okay I also have my pipe Network which is data referenced in you can tell by the fact that I can select that and no grips appear okay so I've got all the information that I need the next thing to do is to create a viewframe we'll do plan a profile of this alignment and we'll do plan plan of this alignment in dual sheets and then we'll go ahead and do our cross sections so to create plan profile Sheets first right click on viewframe groups and click create viewframes we'll go ahead and pick our alignment loves bypass click next plan a profile we'll go ahead and click the browse button and what we're doing is you're browsing to our template which is this path here and it reads inside that file and it looks for special viewports within the layouts that have plan and profile Associated to them there's a special property that gets Associated to a viewport that tells civil 3D hey I'm a plan viewport or I'm a profile viewport okay and that's what we've done here is these layouts correspond to the scales we want to plot at we're going to plot this job at 40 hours five vert we'll click OK I want to set my first viewframe 50 feet that gives me some ability to say begin project notes and so on we'll click next here we'll go with the defaults here and click next I want to allow it to snap to a specific nearest value of 10 that way it's not some arbitrary funny number we do want to possibly reposition our match line so we're going to do some overlapping and then we have label Styles ready to go we'll click next here we'll pick a default profile view style that we want to use which is this one here and then we'll pick a band set we'll click create viewframes and as you can see we have our first set of viewframes in the drawing now the great thing about civil 3D is before you begin to create cheats you can readjust this match line if let's say it's not exactly where you want it to be we could pick the grip here and simply move it around if you wanted to all right you can also pick your view frames and you'll notice these grips appear that allow you to reposition it along the alignment so I can do it that way wherever I want to and I can pick this one here to rotate it okay so that looks good we're going to leave it as is all right now I want to do these viewframes as plan plan so we'll right click here create viewframes we'll pick the other alignment us129 click next this is plans only and we'll click the browse button here make sure in the right folder and I want to click the plan Duo which I I have that file selected and this is going to be a 40 scale click OK same thing here with 50 feet click next click next good to go there and notice how we're not getting any profile options because of course there's no profiles being created create viewframes and you're done we have four of those which will be two sheets let's go ahead and create our sheets now so before we begin to create our sheets I'm going to press Ctrl 4 which is sheet set manager again this is AutoCAD functionality and of course civil 3D is going to leverage sheet set manager to populate our sheets properly so I'll go ahead and open up my sheet set file which is inside the project folder and this sheet set file is already set and ready to go if you're not familiar with a sheet set manager I definitely recommend you take our AutoCAD course and understand how to use sheet set manager because it is a fantastic functionality that is your One-Stop shop for publishing okay so we've got that sheet set manager just so you know you don't have to load it I'm just showing it to you that it's already categorized we'll go ahead and expand viewframe groups right click on loves bypass and create sheets notice how we have options to put them in a new drawing in one drawing or in the current drawing we'll go to the current drawing and then we'll click on this little button right here because I want to make sure that our starting number is one and I also want to make sure the style is set to this this way it goes in the right order we'll click ok notice how it's finding our North Arrow because it's already in those layouts that's pretty cool we'll click next we're going to add this to an existing sheet set we're going to pick our sheet set file which is a DST file we'll click next now I always recommend you go to choose settings and click on the profile view wizard you can split profile views if you have a steep profile this is pretty flat so we're good to go we'll click next and then I scroll to the right here and let's make sure we're labeling what needs to be labeled the existing ground does not need to be labeled so I'll make sure this is set to No Labels our proposed does and it's using the right label set we'll click next do you want to add the drainage Network we can do that now or we can do it afterwards we'll do it afterwards click next for our data band this is the finish grade and existing grade profiles and we want to make sure that they're set properly so in this case for this project the top band is the proposed click next we're not hatching anything and then click next this is how you define the gap between the profile views we'll click finish here click create sheets it wants to save the drawing and of course make sure you're putting these somewhere where there's no design or anything you want to plot because of course this is the location of where the viewports are going to be we'll do a quick little Regional just Rea and as you can see we've got our profiles done over here with the grid and everything the layouts are down below here and we're pretty much ready to go this is the cool thing about civil through DNS Dynamic modeling system it gets you at like 90 there and then you're doing some minor tweaking so I can do a quick little print preview to make sure everything looks good everything looks great as you can see here we're seeing our Topo grayed out our proposed is looking good and we have our proposed Road in there with the Contours notice how the bar scale is correct and the north Arrow rotates automatically pretty cool stuff of course now what you would do is you would go into your model space within this viewport and you would start to add station labels so for instance if I need to do a begin project I would go into here add labels I'll do a hook littlestation offset and I will snap to the intersection right here for the station and there for the offset press Escape that uses a default label Style and what of course I can do is simply go to my properties palette and change this to a different label style so here's a begin project we'll pull this out and as you can see this has a nice little oblique angle in there and now we've got something ready to go quick little print preview and you would basically start adding your labels at important locations such as where is this station offset for this Flume or this Flume Etc but again civility labels use the views rotation they automatically populate correctly all right let's go ahead and create our plan dual sheets here from the us129 and we'll do this all in the same drawing click next we'll add this to an existing sheet set and we'll double click it and notice how there's no profile views because there's no profile views it's just going to create the layouts for us let's go and click on sheet number two and we'll reposition this one in the right order and we'll click on sheet number three and reposition this as well in the right order as you can see here's our plan Duo if I do a quick little print preview again we're pretty much ready to go north hours already rotated we have the right bar scale all set it's really pretty fantastic the way this functionality works now if we look at our sheet set manager you'll notice that these are in their own subsets all you have to do is simply drag them into your own subset that you want to and then you can rename renumber them as well as remove the other subsets that are inside this sheet set file so I'll right click here remove subset right click remove subset and again because I'm leveraging sheet set manager functionality my title block information populates automatically that's really cool so I'll hover over sheet set manager right click here rename your number let's say this sheet starts at number five and this will be plan and profile I'll do a control a control C I always recommend you turn these two on press enter this will be number six tab control V enter now I'm on the next one which will be number seven Tab and this will be a plan sheet control a control C and maybe actually I want to add us-129 right Ctrl a control C tab press enter eight tab control V enter do a quick little region all and you get the idea all this stuff is populating automatically because of sheet set manager and its Fields that's pretty cool stuff right okay so now we have our plan uh and profiles and our plan sheets and let's go ahead and get rid of this layout one it doesn't get rid of the default one so you always want to make sure you kind of get rid of that and clean up your drawings we're going to go to model space now let's say we want to create a set of cross sections just for this road here and we want to start them at let's say 20200 so step one to doing so is to create something called sample lines so let's go ahead and click on Sample lines right here again as I always say when you don't know what to do look to the command line window select an alignment or press enter to pick from the list we want loves bypass click OK here it prompts you and says hey it says what sections do you want to sample across your sample line group and what styles should be applied to them we'll click on the quarter section here because we want that one to have this style for the code set Style and for the proposed road we want no display the quarter model is all we need but we do need the top surface to display the proposed grade line and of course we have our proposed drainage let's set this to a plottable layer it's on non-plotting right now we'll just type Dr here and that'll get us down we'll just pick that layer click OK and click ok of course I don't want to place these all manually you don't have to do that so click the little drop down here by range of stations I want to start this at 202.00 and let's say we want to do this every 50 feet so we'll do this along curves and along tangents click ok hit escape and there are our sample lines now before we cut our section views always set your annotation scale to what you're going to plot at this will help create and let you see the amount of sheets you're going to have so to create your multiple views you go to the profile section views panel in the Home tab section views create multiple views this is the style that we want but notice you can choose anyone you want we'll click next here we'll click browse this template has these two layouts which have a special cross-section viewport that has the cross section property Associated to it we want to let my 17 and this will be a 10 scale we're going to exaggerate it by two click OK this is my group plot style click next automatic for all of this click next make sure nothing is plotting for labels I have nothing and then for the data band here's where you're going to Define this so surface one should be EG Surface Two should be the loves bypass road but of course this road is set to no display it's just there for us to get elevations we'll click creates cross-section views and again make sure you're outside anywhere else you're going to plot I'll go down below here and here are our section views notice how if I just do a quick little regen here we're seeing existing ground I'm not seeing the pipes so I want to make sure some sections go across the pipes that are related we'll select the section view right click Zoom to sample line notice how I have the ability to Simply select my sample line I'll pick this grip and I'll snap anywhere on there this pipe of course is perpendicular to the road and I'll select this one because it's close enough and we'll do the same exact thing I'll go ahead and now right click Zoom to section view notice how it appears automatically you might have to do some messing around with the quarter section to make this look pretty if you look here I've created some predefined code set styles that shut off the daylight and then I will simply do a section view label and I'll just snap from here to there and I'll snap from here to my DBI ditch bottom Inlet and then what I can do is because I already have these Styles in this drawing I can go in here and choose slope right width line because I want it to show a slope and not a grade as you can see this is still reading my quarter model but you don't get that granular when it comes to modeling your structures and pipes so this is good enough but as you can see that's very simple to change now if I want to add labels to these I can simply select the pipe Network section and add Network parts I'll press spacebar to repeat the last command click spacebar pick and now I have the labels that I want for these of course I would change these around to whatever label style I need them to be so for instance if let's say this one needs to be that label style there as you can see it's doing exactly what I wanted to do I'm not getting any leader here but I can drag the label around this is a mitered end section using a specific standard Etc Now to create sheets for cross-sections you go to the output tab of the ribbon and click create section sheets I want to add these to an existing sheet set we'll browse to our sheet set file create section sheets again making sure I am on the right scale I'll click OK here as you can see in the bottom the layouts are being generated and now I can go over to my sheetzip manager I can also double click it right here that activates the sheet I'm going to go ahead and move these to their own subset but let's try that again we'll drag it in there there we go and now I can right click here remove subset now let's say these sheets begin at 20 I'll right click here rename renumber we'll type 20 Tab and then control a control C enter 21 tab control V enter 22 tab control V enter 23 tab control V enter and 24 tab control V and that's it and if I zoom in here do a regional as you can see these are done we'll do a quick little print preview again all these get you about 100 thermos right you're basically done because this reads the quarter model so anything that changes with the quarter model will update the cross sections automatically and of course my section view labels here appear with the pipes and networks I have to add a little rectangle to show the top of the DBI because the structure didn't have it again all good stuff pretty much ready to go let's go ahead and save our drawing because now I am ready to plot and this is the cool thing about civil 3D working on top of AutoCAD if you know AutoCAD all you have to do is right click here publish as long as you have the right patient managers defined I can publish the PDF here we'll go ahead and go to our plans and we'll just save it here this will go through all the sheets and we'll go ahead and double click to open up with your default PDF viewer I happen to have bluebeam as you can see I probably should shut my sample lines off but you get the idea I could have just Frozen those and here are all my sheets with the cross sections ready to go right very simple really easy again completely integrated with AutoCAD so that was our three part video series of civil 3D I hope this video series helped and if you want to learn civil 3D right from scratch with a step-by-step course then I would highly recommend you check the course on source card link is in the description of the video and also in the pinned comment so with that take care and I hope to see you soon in the next video foreign [Music]