As the blog-o-sphere and the world of twitter have been a buzz the past few days, I am sure you have all heard that the Subassembly Composer has graduated to the Subscription Center. Over the next few weeks I plan on doing a bunch of bite size piece posts (in no particular order most likely) covering some of the features. Because someone was asking me about codes today, I thought I would share a few tidbits.
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Quick Tip: SAC Pi
In celebration of today being March 14th, I share this quick tip for the Civil 3D Subassembly Composer with you:
Need pi in a VB expression? Type system.math.pi
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Subassembly Composer Series: Part 5: End of the Year Bonus Tutorial
With things being the way they are and many companies experiencing financial troubles, some people may not be getting an end of the year bonus this year. I’m not going to be handing out a nice fat bonus check to all the wonderful civil3d.com readers but I do have a little end of the year bonus for you that will save you time and in my unbiased opinion will change the way you design behind the curb. It’s a nice “simple” shoulder subassembly but it solves two problems that I have always grumbled about. Problem #1 is I wanted a subassembly in fill to daylight with an upward slope if the slope it was connecting to was sloping upward and with a downward slope if the slope it was connecting to was sloping downward. This problem is solved with this subassembly. Problem #2 is I wanted the same subassembly to truncate the shoulder if the shoulder intersects with the surface. This is often the case when I am doing a road rehab job and don’t need a full shoulder and have less area of disturbance. This problem is also solved with this subassembly.
So this wonderful end of the year bonus comes with a little caveat, it’s sort of like a Lego® set, I’m going to give you all of the pieces but you have to put it together yourself in order to use it. Although I can’t stop you from putting it all together and handing it out like candy, I do encourage you to hand others the tutorial and let them put it together themselves. This is two bonuses in one, not only will it walk you through the thought process and set up of the Autodesk Subassembly Composer but I think it will be a subassembly that you will use again and again. So without further ado… Your End of the Year Bonus is below the cut!
Subassembly Composer Series: Part 4: Testing your Subassembly
So you understand the basics of building a flowchart and using sequences (Part 1) and you’ve got a handle on how to make and use variables (Part 2) and you see the power of the conditionals and decisions (Part 3). You’ve created a simple subassembly file and you are wondering… “Now what?” Hopefully this post will tie up a few loose ends on testing and previewing your subassembly. (That isn’t to say that this is the last part in the series. There is a Part 5 that is ready to hit the street Thursday morning!)
Subassembly Composer Series: Part 3: Conditionals
Conditionals really are one of the great aspects of the Subassembly Composer and really I think that you are going to end up with a conditional of some sort in every subassembly you make once you realize their functionality (unless of course you are doing a super simple subassembly that is one-size-fits all). But before we dive in, lets make sure that you read Part 1 about putting together the flowchart and Part 2 about setting up and using variables.
