We've had a handful of recent projects where the engineer used ADS (stormtech) underground storage systems. Our most recent one was a grocery store and was approved on the first submittal to both the city and wmd.
The ADS folks will even help with the design. We had them out twice and they...
The seamless usgs server allows you to select your project site and it will cut out the area from whatever data you have selected (doqq, quad, dem, etc.)
seamless.usgs.gov
Of course it's not good to use this data for final design purposes, but it can give you a general idea.
There are several packages available now. If you already are familiar with AutoCAD your best bet would be to go with Civil 3D. You may also want to look into others like Carlson and Cadian.
When you say the sheet set do you mean a file of the drawings such as a .pdf or .dwf or do you simply mean the sheet list?
What version are you using? I'm on '08 and if you want the sheet list one way to extract it would be to insert the list into AutoCAD by right-clicking the sheet set name >...
You can change this in the Properties box/palette after selecting them. I would use qselect to select them and then go to the Properties box/palette and set this.
You might look into the object enablers as well. It sounds like that may be what you need. Go to the Autodesk site and in the search box type "land desktop object enablers" or "civil 3d object enablers" and look for your version of AutoCAD in the results. These are simple to download and install...
If using Civil 3D or Land Desktop you simply import the points. If using regular AutoCAD you'll likely have to use a different method involving a lisp.
Have you asked for a seat of Civil 3D? If not you should. Otherwise I'd ask a coworker who has Civil 3D to do it for me or allow me to do it on their computer. It doesn't take long to do. Threaten with bodily harm if necessary. ;-)
I have never used AGTEK, but I'm guessing they want you to create a surface from the points. You can do this if you have Autodesk Land Desktop, but I don't believe you could with straight AutoCAD.
Did you figure this out yet Jim? If not:
For Land Desktop
1. Create your existing surface
2. Set your suface current
3. Profiles > Existing Ground > Sample From Surface
4. Profiles > Create Profile > Quick Profile (or Full Profile)
5. Pick point for profile insertion
For Civil 3D
1. Create...
Or a dummy like myself would just create a polyline around the general area (matching the two known sides) and add a field that displays the area of the polyline. Then toying with the other sides until I got it right on!
You set the plot styles in the plot dialog. It is in the upper right corner of the dialog. You may need to click the circle/arrow button in the lower right to expand the plot dialog to see the plot style selection pulldown.
Ironically I was faced with a dwg like this after making my last post. I was informed that one thing that may fix it is to wblock out any 'unused' blocks > open the block.dwg(s) > purge it > reinsert into original dwg and redefine > remove and purge. I did this and it did partly fix the issue. I...
