AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 software is a comprehensive AutoCAD-based application package for the design, drafting, and management of a wide range of civil engineering project types. Place the Light Pole onto the Corridor by Eric Tang In this thread, you can see how the Autodesk Civil 3D can be used for building up the model. The Autodesk Civil 3D can be provided to implement the civil engineering tasks, for example, Cut/ Fill surface calculation, Horizontal/ Vertical Alignment design, Drainage design, Surface analysis... Most of the cases, the model would go to do the visualization after the model was built. The model also can export to Autodesk 3D Studio Max for doing the impressive visualization. Step 1 - Corridor model Step 2 - Select Utilities from Corridors pull-down menu --> Select "Alignment from Corridor" Step 3 - Select the feature line --> Top_Curb Note: Because I selected the curb components at Step 2, so the Back_Curb or Top_Curb can be selected. Step 4 - After you selected the Top_Curb --> The Create Alignment will be prompted -> Input the New name of the alignment Step 5 - After create the horizontal alignment --> the Create Profile will be prompted --> Input the Name of the Profile Step 6 - The new alignment is created. Step 7 - After created the alignment --> Select "Create Points." from Points pull-down menu Step 8 - After selected the "Create Points." --> Create Points toolbar will be prompted --> Select the "Measure Alignment" Step 9 - Define the Starting station and Ending station by chainages --> define the offset (e.g. 0) --> define the interval (e.g. 10m) Step 11 - After define the interval --> Enter the point name (e.g. 1, 2, or any text) optional Step 12 - the points are created --> hightlight the point category at the tool space --> check the point cooridinates, point name, point elevation... note: you can update the information from the table Step 13 - After the points generated --> Create the new point group (e.g. light pole) --> Right click the point group --> Click New Step 14 - Just drag-&-drop the points from the "Points" to the new pointgroup (e.g. light pole) Step 15 - Right click the light pole pointgroup --> change the Point Style As above screen capture was shown the point style changed to Tree style. Step 16 - Right click again the pointgroup --> change the point style to point style "light pole" From the 3D perspective view, you can check the light poles were perfectly placed onto the top curb line of the corridor model. The point style (e.g. light pole) was used the AutoCAD "block" to develop. You can easy to change the point style even this is the 3D block, but please consider the insertion point of the block. I would like to summarize the three actions/ commands "Alignment from corridor", "Measure Alignment" and "Create the new point style". For the Alignment from corridor part, it can be measured the corridor model and created the new alignments; For the Measure Alignment part, you can create the points from the alignment and it also provides the flexibility about points offset and points interval; For the Create the new point style part, it can be used the existing AutoCAD block even it is 3D block. It also provides the flexibility about the block orientation.

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Place the Light Pole onto the Corridor