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Reference Manual for CivilCAD 2012®
New Edition December 2012 – Rev. 1.0

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Table of Content Chapter 1: General ...................................................................................... 7GENERAL................................................................................................................... 8 DRAWING ENVIRONMENT - WORKING WITH AUTOCAD® (AUTODESK) OR BRICSCAD® (BRICSCAD) . 9 SCREEN DIVISION ..................................................................................................... 10 TOOLBARS ............................................................................................................... 11 WORKINGWITH PROJECTS ........................................................................................... 14 PROJECTS NONAME AND PROTOTYPE (RECOVERING OF LOST INFORMATION) ............................. 15 DEALING WITH LAYERS ............................................................................................... 16 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PICK, LOCATE, SELECT AND UNUSED................................................. 19 INITIALIZING THE SYSTEM ........................................................................................... 20 DEFINING ROADS WORK MODES ................................................................................... 23 SAVING THE PROJECT FOR MOVING FROM ONE COMPUTER TO ANOTHER (ZIP) ............................ 24 USING CIVILCAD 2012 HELP...................................................................................... 26

Chapter 2: Coordinates database .............................................................. 27
COORDINATES DATABASE ............................................................................................ 28 COORDINATES LIST.................................................................................................... 29 COMMAND BUTTONS CONNECTED TO THE LIST .................................................................. 34 DRAWING COMMANDS AFFECTING THE LIST ...................................................................... 42 WORKING WITH BLOCKS.............................................................................................. 47

Chapter 3 :Working with blocks(code)..................................................... 49
WORKING WITH BLOCKS (CODES) ................................................................................. 50 SETTING WORK MODE IN BLOCKS ................................................................................... 50 WORKING WITH CODES............................................................................................... 52 LOADING A NEW BACKGROUND INTO A PROJECT WITH BLOCKS ............................................... 53 CREATING CODES ...................................................................................................... 54 COMMANDS FROM ‘TOPOGRAPHY CODES’ WINDOW ............................................................. 55 BLOCK IN ROADS....................................................................................................... 56 DEFINING COLORS IN ‘TEMPLATE’ FILE ............................................................................ 57

Chapter 4: Creating contour lines ............................................................. 58
CREATING CONTOUR LINES.......................................................................................... 59 START USING ........................................................................................................... 59 BASIC ISSUES AND DEFINING THE RANGE OF CONTOUR LINES ................................................ 59 COMMAND BUTTONS FROM THE CONTOURS WINDOW: ......................................................... 63 SETTING OPTIONS...