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In this movie, you create road markings. Instead of building them manually as geometry or as maps, you let Civil View do the work for you through an elegant and easy to use interface.
In this movie, you create a Private Resource Kit by copying one that ships with Civil View. A Private Resource Kit is useful as it allows you to edit your library by adding or removing components without affecting the libraries that ship with the product.
Before you start experimenting with what Civil View has to offer, you need to establish a basic scene setup that deals with items such as rendering output, a sun system and possibly a background image.
In this movie, you output your Civil 3D design into a format that lets you manipulate it in 3ds Max Design. The format in question is VSP3D and is particularly suited to work with the Civil View plugin.
In this movie, you create an Assembly.This is the third and last component you need to create a corridor. An Assembly is basically a cross-section of the road you need, where you define shoulders, lanes, gutters and sidewalks among others.
In this movie, you create a Profile, which is the second component needed to build a Civil 3D Corridor. It represents a side projection that shows the topography of the terrain in relation to the road (or in this case bridge) you are creating.
In this movie, you create an Alignment which is the first of three components needed to build a Civil 3D Corridor. An alignment is a top projection of a road, basically how it winds down atop a surface.
Often, Civil Engineers outsource the obtaining of GIS data and aerial mapping to specialized companies. However, if you're interested in how you can get your own, then this movie will show you a few tricks.
In this movie, you learn to save an aerial image or more technically a satellite image that matches the area defined for your project. You will use Google Earth but learn about other tools as well.
Once you set basic scene parameters, you then use Google Earth to study the area of the world where your project is to take place, in this case the state of New York.
In this movie, you establish relationships between the car's body and the steering wheel, to create body roll when the steering wheel rotates and the car turns.
In this movie, you establish relationships between the car's front wheels and the steering wheel, so that the front wheels turn when the steering wheel rotates.
In this movie, you constrain the car to a path. Furthermore, you establish math functions to ensure the wheels spin by the proper amount as the car travels on the path.
This tutorial shows you how to control wheel spin as a car travels on a path. It also shows how to turn the wheels and roll the car body in reaction to Steering Wheel animation. In this Part 1 movie, you familiarize yourself with the scene and its setup.