11/30/2006 - 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Room:San Polo - 3404 (ISD Campus)

Modeling Floodplains and Designing Stream Corridors with Civil 3D

Dana Probert - Cadapult, Ltd and Beth Uczynski (Co-Speaker)

CV33-2

This class will allow for hands-on interaction with an existing river model. We'll use Civil 3D to import aerial imagery, DEM data, GIS data from FEMA, and other sources. Then, we will design two streams using corridor modeling tools. One with a uniform cross section and one with a complicated, constantly changing cross section. Finally, we will do some simple visualizations suitable for presentations to clients and the public.

About the Speaker: Dana has been the Civil Solutions applications specialist at Cadapult, Ltd. for 3 years. At Cadapult, Dana works with engineers and designers to help them make the most of their software tools. She received her Civil Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and has spent the past 8 years using Land Desktop and Civil 3D to do site, storm water management, road design, stream restoration, flood plain analysis, land use planning, and other civil and GIS projects in both the U.S. and Canada. dana.probert@cadapult.net Beth Uczynski has an Associates Degree in Architectural Engineering from Delaware Technical College. She has 4 years of experience as a production designer for surveying and land development projects in both Delaware and Pennsylvania. She currently works with Cadapult, Ltd. teaching Engineers, Surveyors and Mapping professionals how to leverage the software tools in their offices, specifically, AutoCAD, Land Desktop, Civil 3D, and Map 3D.
bethu@cadapult.net

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LAYING THE GROUND WORK There are a few ways to import GIS background data. New for Map 2007 (and therefore Civil 3D 2007) is adding the data as a data source. This allows you to add the information as background and theme it very quickly. See HELP for tutorials, information and more step by step instructions.

Change your workspace to the Map 3D Geospatial Go to the View Menu choose TASK PANE Right click on DATA>Add Data

Choose your data type, and navigate out to find your data.

Choose your data, assign coordinate system, and add to map.

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Switch to Display Manager

Right Click on your data, choose Edit Display Style Choose THEME

Assign a theme that colors and labels your data in a meaningful way

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SIMPLE STREAM CHANNEL When you stream, ditch or swale follows a uniform cross section, think of it as an upside down road. Create an alignment, a profile and an assembly for your stream. Then build a corridor as you would for a road.

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STREAM RESTORATION WITH COMPLEX TRANSITONS Our goal is to create a stream that changes from a typical STEP section to a typical POOL section as it moves through a complicated horizontal and vertical alignment.

Through working with our stream restoration designer, we are given survey information, proposed stream centerline, a list of step and pool stations and elevations, and typical step and pool cross sections.

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COMPLEX STREAM STRATEGY While in our simple stream, we attached the assembly to the stream centerline, here we will take a different approach. In cases where you have lots of curves through your transitions, it is often better to experiment with different baselines to help eliminate crossing corridor sections. When the bottom of your stream is flat, consider leaving that part of the corridor out. The triangulation of the surface TIN will take care of bridging that gap.

Corridor built using Top of Bank as baselines and Bottom of Bank as Targets

Corridor built using CL as baseline with Bottom of Bank and Top of Bank as targets
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CREATE CENTERLINE ALIGNMENT AND PROFILE Figure out where your stream centerline alignment should be and draw it in using either alignment tools, or create from a polyline and convert to an alignment. Sample Existing Ground profile, and use profile layout tools to convert the designers stations and elevations into a centerline and top of bank profile.

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CREATE TRANSITION PATH POLYLINES CONVERT TO ALIGNMENTS Use transition alignments to guide your assemblies. These alignments will tell the assembly how to stretch as it moves through your corridor. 1) Make alignment labels that call out profile geometry points to assist you. If you change your drawing settings to call a LP a POOL and a HP a STEP it will make things easy to pick out.

2) Use those labels along with the OFFSET command to trace out a zigzag path that connects STEP to POOL 3) Use the PEDIT-FIT command to smooth our your polyline. Adjust as necessary.

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CONVERT POLYLINES INTO TRANSITION ALIGNMENTS Use the Alignments> Create from polyline tool

Be sure to make one for the Top of Bank transition alignment as well.

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CREATE SUPERIMPOSED PROFILES FOR TOP OF BANK ON THEIR OWN PROFILE VIEWS Before you use an alignment as a baseline, you must cut a profile for it. In this case we will be using the Top of Bank as a baseline, so we need to make a Profile and Profile View for Top of Bank (both sides of the river) 1) Sample the Top of Bank from the Existing Ground and make a Profile View 2) Superimpose the Top of Bank Profile that we drew on the River CL profile view into our Top of Bank Profile View. 3) Name the Superimposed Top of Bank Profile something meaningful

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CREATE ASSEMBLIES DESIGNED TO LATCH ON TO TOP OF BANK Using LinkWidthAndSlope subassembly, create assemblies to hook on to the Top of Bank. Since our alignments all go the same direction, we need to make a left and a right. If your alignments arent too twisty, you can use a daylighting subassembly as well, but in this case, I will save that for later.

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BUILD YOUR CORRIDOR 1) 2) 3) 4) Choose Top of Bank alignments as baselines Choose the Superimposed Profile as the baseline Profile Choose the appropriate assembly Set Frequency to a short interval and be sure to include those profile geometry points (step and pool locations) 5) Set targets to find the Bottom of Bank

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CONFIRM YOUR CORRIDOR AND MAKE A CORRIDOR SURFACE

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DAYLIGHTING There are a few ways you can tie your river into the existing ground. You can use some of the daylighting subassemblies. If your alignments are very curvy, however, daylighting lines may cross too much to yield acceptable results. You can use any of these in combination. There are many ways to approach this part. Daylighting Options: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Daylighting subassemblies Extracting feature lines and creating a grading object Extracting feature lines and using feature line tools Make a boundary, paste into EG and let the TIN figure it out TIN editing Adding points, breaklines, etc.

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