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Exercise 1.5: Explore Panorama
In this exercise, you will open the Event Viewer and Volumes Dashboard to
become familiar with the Panorama.
If you have continued from the previous exercise, you can skip to step 2.
Otherwise, if you haven't already done so, go to the topic's web page at www.sybex
.com/go/civil3d2015essentials a nd download the files for Chapter 1. Unzip the
files to the correct location on your hard drive according to the instructions in
the introduction. Then, follow these steps:
1. Launch Civil 3D 2015, and open the file named User Interface.dwg .
2. On the Home tab of the ribbon, expand the Palettes panel and click
the icon for Event Viewer.
3. Experiment with resizing, auto-hiding, and docking the Panorama
window. You'll find that it behaves much like other dockable windows
in Civil 3D.
4. Press Esc to clear any selections in the drawing. Click one of the con-
tour lines in the drawing to display the Tin Surface: Existing Ground
ribbon tab, and then click Volumes Dashboard on the Analyze panel.
Note the Volumes
Dashboard tab that
shows up next to the
Events tab in Panorama.
5. Close Panorama, and close the drawing without saving.
Because nothing changes in this drawing file as a result of the exercise steps,
no User Interface - Complete file is necessary.
using the transparent Commands toolbar
As you may already know, civil engineers and surveyors draw things a little dif-
ferently than architects or mechanical engineers. They use things such as bear-
ings, curve deltas, northings, and eastings to define geometry. The Transparent
Commands toolbar enables Civil 3D users to draw things based on the special
geometric concepts that are unique to civil engineers and surveyors.
For example, when drawing a line, you can use the Northing Easting transpar-
ent command to specify the first point and the Bearing Distance transparent
command to specify the endpoint (see Figure 1.11).
Certification
Objective
Bearing
Distance
Northing
Easting
FiGuRE 1.11 The Transparent Commands toolbar with red lines pointing to the Bearing
Distance and Northing Easting transparent commands
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