Today’s tool is all about QA/QC as it relates to our Civil 3D Point Objects.
In short, having duplicate Points or Points in very close proximity to each other can indicate a problem especially when the Points represent existing conditions.
Maybe the same object was collected from different setups and their elevations vary more than an acceptable amount. Maybe Points were inadvertently inserted multiple times into the same model. Maybe the redundant information is causing issues with Surface triangulation…
There are many reasons why duplicate (or nearly duplicate) Points should be identified and evaluated.
Unfortunately, until recently, there was not an easy way for us to identify these Points.
In Civil 3D 2016 there was a Transportation Extension module that was released mid-year. This module contained an AECCREPORTPOINTPROX tool designed specifically to evaluate our Points and generate a report of any Points that fell within our user defined proximity tolerance. This report could then be used to go back and evaluate the affected Points and determine if any resolution was required.
Very cool!!
I know what you are thinking… Where do I get my hands on this Transportation Extension so I can try it out. In short, if you have Civil 3D 2018, you already have it!! The Transportation Extension tools have been rolled into the "out of the box" Civil 3D installation.
Check out the video below to see where to find it and how it works.
-Jerry
This might be helpful for evaluating as built point information versus design points. I could see using this on structures, even column centers.
Posted by: Tim Higbie | 11/29/2017 at 04:07 AM
Thanks for the suggestion! I agree completely!
Posted by: Jerry Bartels | 11/29/2017 at 06:40 AM