A few months ago, I posted that MassDOT Requires Submittals in Civil 3D Starting 1-1-2012.
MassDOT has now posted their Civil 3D template, assemblies, survey guidelines and other CAD standards to their website.
I had a quick look at the styles in the template. Here is a capture of some of the alignment styles that they’ve built. I am thinking back to my days doing consulting work and I’m a bit jealous. It’s great to have a starting point to match submittal requirements.
There is also a nice library of prebuild road assemblies.
In addition to MassDOT, you should also check out the information about other DOTs that are allowing or requiring Civil 3D. We’ve created some landing pages to help users locate important news, templates, design standards, screencasts and more.
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Downloaded these a couple of weeks ago to see how well they were developed and if there were any concepts or ideas that could be learned from them. Love hearing news like this and hope that more DOT's catch the Civil 3D bug, or at least more allow varied data/file types for submission.
Posted by: Bryan Tanner | January 12, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Am I correct that in their assemblies the sidewalks are linked to the bottom of curb instead of the top?
Posted by: Daniel | January 12, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Hi Daniel. You'd have to look through their standards. I'm not sure what they require.
Posted by: Dana Probert, P.E. | January 12, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Well I would hope that they don't require their sidewalks to be below the road.
Posted by: Daniel | January 13, 2012 at 02:44 PM
Daniel and Dana - actually if you open this in 2012 don't click "convert to .net" or whatever it asks you, the sidewalks will connect to the back of the curb. If you click convert you can see them all drop at once. I'd say that's a big "oops" on Autodesk's part...the conversion is screwing up their assemblies...their template is a 2007 template too...
Posted by: JoshNelson | January 18, 2012 at 05:56 PM