12d Model

The panel that controls the appearance for the grid, has settings for the text size in pixels (for on screen) and in mm (for on paper/PDF). You'll need to set both. (I can only seem to get the easting and northing text labels from the view's standard grid, plotting in font "1", no matter w...

IMHO, even if you don't add in the GRADE link and modify it, a triangulation of the two roads and the kerb returns (design strings and x-sections for all) will normally give you a tin that is pretty darn close to the desired finished surface.

For an example without snippets, the Create Roads - Enhanced function does this for you (alternatively, it can also do it with snippets). It essentially inserts a fixed link named "GRADE" and then applies two separate Fixed - Modify to String modifiers. The 1st modifies "GRADE" t...

If removing duplicate vertices does not make your polygon entirely "good", another thing to try would be removing any segment radii from the polygon, via: Utilities=>Super strings=>Radius I chanced upon a job last week where I found this extra step was necessary, due to a barely perceptibl...

Resolved. A sneaky duplicate that was hiding underneath another string.

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Do any of the strings in your model have duplicate names? If so, when plotting the model of strings, the duplicates will be missing, and the plot of the string you think you have, may be for another string.

Hi Mark, Note that the 12d Model reference manual states that you should not customise colours in the colour number range 0-2000, as this range is reserved for use by 12d Solutions. But yes, that is where the pen weights are set in the PMF. Of course, if you use any of our standard "* string we...

Firstly, the difference between the "black" and "colour" plotters/PMFs, should only be for 12d's standard colour numbers (1-15 & 316): header of: $SET_UPS\pmf_colour.pmf // Plotter Mapping File for FULL scale plotting. // The 12d standard colour numbers (1-15 & 316) plot ...

That seems odd. Some questions: What version of 12d? Is this an ordinary Plan view, or Plan OpenGL view? (I'd recommend an ordinary Plan view for this.) Have you turned on the view settings: Draw face edges and Draw face hatch ? (I'd recommend the former, but not the latter.) Can you email a 12daz o...

Dr Alan Duffy will be discussing his theories on time travel in 2106.

V12 can explode symbols, so if you create the shape as a symbol, you can apply it to all the pit centres, then explode the symbols and then drape them to your tin to assign the levels. (I imagine some of the symbols might need rotating, too.)

Eastings and Northings have been added as an option in V12.

You can convert the Drainage strings to Super string conduits (one string per Drainage pipe) via the Drainage Plan Plot (which is more than just a plotter and typically works in 3-D). It has options for the levels of the Super conduits and their justifications.

There are a few ways to extend pipes to length. There is also Create Drainage Spaced Along String, where you can create a drainage string along a design string with pits at regular (or variable) spacing.