Creating a longsection plot from 12d Model, that meets Sydney Water’s requirements, usually involves a lot of manual drafting.
The 12d Model to Sydney Water setup is designed to reduce the amount of manual drafting effort required to produce a Sydney Water longsection. Additionally, as it uses the original data from 12d Model there is less chance of errors that may occur from “re-drafting” longsections in AutoCAD.
For more information, and to download the 12d Model – Sydney Water Customisation, please see here;
www.exds.com.au/customise-12d/sydney-water-customisation
Process
By using the setup files provided by EXDS, converting a 12d Model longsection is a two step process:
- Plot a longsection from 12d Model to DWG using the Sydney Water setup.
- Process the DWG in AutoCAD to comply with Sydney Water’s requirements.
Note: The 12d Model to Sydney Water setup is not a complete conversion to Sydney Water standards. Some manual drafting is needed to produce the finished product.
A sample 12d Model project is included with the setup files from the link above.
A Note on MTEXT
If the DWG contains MText, the VLX routine will give an error such as;
error : bad argument type <NIL> ; expected <NUMBER> at [/]
If this happens, the 12d env variable for MText will need to be disabled by setting;
DWG_FORCED_MTEXT_4D 0
A simple solution is to create an Env Config for plotting, that has MText ‘preset’ to off. Refer to the 12d (V15) Reference Manual, S. 6.10.4 Creating/Editing Environment Configurations