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• The Jump #1 - The Hows & Whys of Template Construction

  Topics:
  
  Make Jump Start Run 
      Our Goals and/or Your Goals - get the templates working
  Why and How the NCS Standards make your life easier 
      Why the NCS and UDS make you productive 
  Do Layers Really Matter? 
       How to more easily manage the layer properties 
      How and Why - Layers are Styles
  
  Those Pesky AutoCAD Details 
      Textstyles to Annotate or Not 
          Quick Change to AutoCAD Styles and for Fast Money 
      Where and How to plug in your Linetypes - Use Design Center 
      Where and How to plug in your Blocks - USe Design Center and Rename
  Why Jump Start is STB based 
      How STB works differently than CTB 
      How to get over it and get to work
  
  Sanity in the Civil 3D Toolspace 
      Style, Set & Setting Essentials 
      Basic JS Naming Conventions (Label Styles come later…) 
      Do you start at the top? The Top of What? 
      Drawing Settings
  The Hierarchy Rules
  The Simple Style Rules

• The Jump #2 - Style Essentials & Maintenance

   Topics:
  Point Styles & Point Label Styles 
          Symbols/Markers in Point Styles 
          Point Label Styles 
          Description Key Sets
  The unique Surface Feature Styles 
      The critical Display tab 
      Counting the other tabs
  
  The Update Styles Process 
      Open the template or drawing file with the styles you need 
      Open the drawing you want to update 
      Delete the old styles STARTING with SETS 
      Make sure the drawing to update is the CURRENT drawing 
          Tiled drawing Windows help 
      Settings Tab 
          Expand the Features tree for the Feature and Label Styles you need 
          Select Styles at the lowest level in the tree and work uphill through the feature 
          – Do SETS last 
      Drag and Drop into the CURRENT Drawing 
      Always Overwrite – you know these are RIGHT
  
  Basic Alignment, Profile, and Section Features 
      The Linear Features 
          Group Labels and basic labels
   
  The Basics of Label Sets 
          What Sets collect 
              Styles 
              Properties
  
  Those Beastly Profile and Section Views 
      Review of the View Features properties interface 
      Own the Sets 
      And maybe the Styles in them 
      For Updates – Clear the Sets and Feature Settings FIRST

   

• The Jump #3 - Essentials of Label Styles and Sets

  Topics:
  The Collector Features in C3D 
          Sites 
          Point Groups 
          Surfaces 
          Grading Groups 
          Parcels 
          Corridors 
          Assemblies 
          Sample Line Groups 
          Pipe Network Features 
          More….
  Profile Views 
      The publishing engine for profiles and pipe networks 
      Label Sets make the annotation easier 
      Labels anchor to the Feature or the View 
      Labels have Extensions anchors
  Section Views 
      The publishing engine for Sections 
      Powered by a Sample Line Group collector 
      Site Section and Road Sections are the same 
      Sections employ multiple Styles and multiple Label Styles 
      The General Multipurpose Styles drive the results

  How the General Multipurpose Styles connect to some Collectors 
          Markers 
          Feature Lines 
          Links 
          Shapes 
          Code Sets
  Style collections for Corridors and Cross Sections 
      What about Sites? 
      Connect Feature Lines, Alignments, Parcels, Gradings and more… 
      Control interactivity

  What to Do with Label Styles
      SAVE! SAVE! SAVE! 
      Plan before you Play 
          Playing with Label Styles eats man-hours 
          Draw out what you want – Do a markup of a plan set 
          Review the available Feature Data before you start 
      Create healthy parent styles 
          Decide on the components you need and make them 
          Name the components appropriately 
          Reduce the number of Text components to the minimum number you need 
          The default “new” label style components names are NOT what you want 
          Get the parent to work and do what you planned and STOP 
      Resist Label Style Lust the urge to keep trying to do MORE

  What Not to Do with Label Styles
      Don’t add components to a child label style 
      Add it to the parent FIRST and make it invisible 
      Create new Parents to handle big differences 
      Use parent names to organize purpose and use 
      Try not to change the ORDER of how components are connected in a child style 
          You may get away with this, but only if 
          you obey the DO NOT ADD Rule 
          you don’t change to parent 
      Do not experiment with child styles under a working parent 
          Make a copy of the parent and a new child and play there

• The Jump #4 - Maintain & Customize Jump Start

   Topics:
  Drawings in Civil 3D
       Drawings Start as Model drawings
       They become Data or Xrefs for other Model or Model (design) drawings
       Publish drawings are mostly references

  Drawing Types
    Model Drawings
       Need Styles at least based on Task and Features
    Xdata Drawings
       No Styles except perhaps to update
       Purge Styles and Layers Ruthlessly
    Xref Drawings – used to display and annotate the model
       Need Styles at least to Display Feature Content
       Purge before archiving
    Publish Drawings
       No Styles

  Code Set Styles
    What they do for Corridors
       Generate the Feature Line line work
       Corridor output can be used for more design
       Generate the Shape fills in Plan
    What they do for Sections
       Generate the cross section view line work and fills for subassemblies
       Generate the labels for the subassembly Shapes and Points

  Get Jump Start Working 
    Evaluate and KISS
       Use the demo drawings to explore Styles for Key Features
       Do work with your data and unchanged styles
       The less you tweak the less work you have to do
  
  How to Rip and Tear 
    Remove it if you don’t need it now
    It may exist for a good reason…but you can get it back
  Key Issues
    Colors to make IMPORTANT things familiar
    Linetypes to get your look at feel
    Create external Layer States files to restore your layer changes to
    supplied updates and project data drawings
    Edit and OWN the ONLY the Sets and most used Styles
  
  Feature Styles 
      Graphically simple – most changes are to Layers
  
  Label Styles & Label Sets 
      Fonts & Font Size 
      Edit and OWN the most useful Label Sets 
      Reduce the number of Label Styles in YOUR templates

  The Maintenance Plan Checklist
      Remember to PDCA (Plan Do Check Analyze) 
      You must have a time frame or everything becomes an emergency and a crisis
      Don’t Fight fires Prevent fires 
          It will never ALL get done at once 
      Do a pass and STOP for a set period of time 
      Document in writing what you changed 
      Create one template that ONLY has your changes 
      Do Work 
      Document in writing what you think must change 
          Updates are going to happen so how do you handle that? 
      Remember – You choose

  The Style Update Process
      Make sure you have backups 
         The update process will fail because of ID10T errors – we mess up 
      Make the drawing to update “Current” 
      Use Settings>>Master View 
          The Labels Only view may help but don’t forget it does not show everything you may need to update 
      Update from the other drawing 
      Copy and/or Update Styles from the lowest level and branch in the Toolspace 
      Parent Label Styles come over this way 
      Do the Label Sets Last 
      Be Bored and Systematic 
      When in doubt OVERWRITE

  Make Template Updates Easier
      Start with the right ACAD template – stb 
          We supply a NO STYLES template on the Updates page on cadpilot.com 
      Purge the easy to identify “C” and “V” blocks 
      Load the linetypes, hatch patterns, textstyles with Design Center from a 
          copy of your good template after it is updated with changes 
      Load YOUR blocks with Design Center 
          Blocks should use NAMES in the Jump Start template OR
              be completely YOUR OWN – easiest to maintain. 
          Don’t mix and try to match 
      Layer State files make Layer updates easy 
          Make sure they are EXTERNAL and read only 
      Insert Exploded the new update template 
          This will NOT overwrite YOUR changes
      Purge the Layers you KNOW you don’t want 
          Purge ALL works as a Quick Fix 
          All the layers are still in the Update template 
      Tweak New Style Referenced layers and update your external Layer States files 
      Update your OWN Styles & Sets into the drawing 
      Evaluate the new styles that may help your OWN Sets and Styles and own and update them 
      Rip and Tear 
      Go back to work 

  Data drawings are different from the drawings used to publish the model 
      Data drawings have almost NO STYLES – Delete Styles
      Data drawings end up as references in Publish drawings

  Tell us what you Need
      Email us Style requests in writing
      Your Purpose and the Why are important information 
          Please do not assume we understand 
          It may already be in there but you may have missed it 
      The kind of work you are doing is IMPORTANT too 
      Show a picture of what you want if possible 
  If it is Broken, please tell us 
      If we don’t know, we may not fix it.