Eagle Point Autocad Manual
Eagle Point Autocad Manual
Eagle Point Autocad Manual
Notation Method
Button to Press Displayed Text Icon Action {Text to Enter} Menu Item…
2. Click the New Surface Model Icon. This brings up New Surface Model box.
3. Click on the Library icon (looks like books on a shelf) and select the Original Ground surface
model. Click Load Prototype. Click Yes. Click Close.
4. Input a Description name. E.g. {Ognd}, which would represent original ground.
4. Click Polyline and draw a border around outside of the survey points without snapping to the
points. To close the line cleanly, type {C} and press Enter. This will represent an outer limit
for the surface model.
4. Place a checkmark by Display Model if you want to see a temporary set of triangulation. Place
a checkmark by Place Triangles if you want to have triangulation objects placed into the
drawing.
5. Click Apply. [When repeating this step (like adding breaklines) a TIN message box appears
just click YES to overwrite.] Pay attention to your AutoCAD command lines as you
continue.
6. Use AutoCAD selection methods to pick the objects to triangulate. One way to do this is by
drawing a selection window. Once objects are selected press the Enter key.
7. The command line should now ask you to select boundary. Select boundary by clicking with
your mouse the border.
1. From AutoCAD, click NRCS/EP… Create Contours… Make Intermediate & Index….
2. Click Settings and verify or change the contour interval. Click OK.
5. Click Close.
4. Pull down Annotation Location to Middle and checkmark Break Contour. Checkmark
Annotation Direction as Uphill/Downhill.
5. Click OK.
7. Click Apply.
8. Click in CAD to select the starting point of the string of contour labels. Start at a lower
elevation to get the text rotation correct.
9. Click the ending point for the line of labels near the higher elevation.
10. If the contour labels are not what you want, use the AutoCAD Undo Icon multiple times to
return back to the unlabeled contour lines.
4. Right click the Osnap Status. Click Settings… and checkmark only Node and Object Snap
On. Click OK.
6. From AutoCAD Click NRCS/EP… Create Contours… Erase Existing Objects…. Note: Eagle
Point cannot erase objects that are on frozen or locked layers.
7. Checkmark Contours and any other items that have been placed into CAD. Click Apply.
3. Click the Lock Icon. This will protect the EP surface model.
4. Click Close.
6. Select the contour layers. E.g. C.Topo.Ognd.Indx and C.Topo.Ognd.Intr layer. Click the Lock
column.
7. Click OK. The graphics in CAD are locked. You will not be able to use the Break Contours
method of labeling the contours if the layer is locked.
Plotting Contours
Refer to How to Import Points into Eagle Point for Plotting the Survey Points Using AutoCAD
Paperspace in combination with Selecting Layers to Not Plot Within a Viewport.
Submitted by Norman Friedrich.
CREATING NEW PROFILES
5. Select a location in the drawing that will not overlap a profile with the plan view part of the
drawing.
6. Click into the Station box. Input a Stationing that you want to correspond to this reference
location in the drawing. E.g. {0}. Press Tab.
7. Input an elevation that you want to correspond to this reference location in the drawing. E.g.
{1100}. Press Tab.
8. Click OK.
9. Click Close.
3. Input the horizontal and vertical scales. E.g. Horz ={40}, Vert = {10}.
4. Determine the Reference station of the left end of the Centerline alignment line. E.g. {-275}.
9. Click OK.
13. Input the beginning stationing of the line. E.g. {-270}. Click OK.
14. Locate the Profile view within the drawing and window in around it.
16. Input a view name. E.g. {CL dam profile}. Click OK.
17. Select the Profile lines and change their layer property to the type of profile that it represents.
E.g. C.Prof.Ognd would be used for Original Ground profiles.
2. Check Paper Units and input the grid dimensions for the paper. E.g. For Grids that fill the full
title block: For 11x17: Length={14}, Height={10}, Area Height ={.25}, Elev Width ={.5}.
For 22x34: Length={28}, Height={20}, Area Height ={0.5}, Elev Width={1}.
3. If used for 11x17: click the CAD settings icon and change the Datum Elev and Stations Text
size to {0.12} and click Apply for each one. For 22x34: Datum Elev={.24}, Stations={.24}.
4. Click OK.
5. Input desired Station Interval labeling. E.g. {40} and input desired Elevation Interval labeling.
E.g. {10}.
6. Click OK.
7. Click to place the outline of the Grid to enclose the Profile lines.
3. If this Layout has not been set up yet the Page Setup will appear. Otherwise right click the
Layout1 Tab and click Page Setup.
4. Click Plot Device and select the printer/plotter that you will use. E.g. {HP 5000}.
5. Pull down Plot style table to either Monochrome.ctb for B&W plotting or to NRCS IA
BWgray.ctb for gray plotting of gray lines.
6. Click Layout Settings and select the paper size. E.g. {11 x 17}. Plot Scale is typically left at
1:1. (Use 1:2 when plotting a 22x34 drawing to an 11x17 printer).
7. Click OK.
8. Check the AutoCAD status bar to make sure that PAPER is displayed. If MODEL appears
click once to make PAPER appear.
11. Browse to the desired title block. E.g. {C:\My Projects\Border and Title
Blocks\std17base.dwg}. Highlight the filename. Click Open.
13. Right click the Layout1 Tab and click Page Setup.
14. Click Plot area Extents and checkmark. Plot offset Center the plot.
18. Click a grip of the viewport to resize the viewport within the area of the paper & title block.
19. Double click inside of the viewport. PAPER will switch to MODEL.
23. Double click outside of the viewport. MODEL status will switch to PAPER.
25. Input the Horizontal Scale of the profile into the custom scale box as a {1/xxx} Enter. E.g.
Input 40 scale as {1/40} Enter.
26. Double click inside of the viewport. PAPER status will switch to MODEL.
27. Without zooming in or out, press the mouse wheel down to pan the profile until it fits
correctly in the title block.
28. Double click outside of the viewport. MODEL status will switch to PAPER
31. Pull down the display locked to Yes. With Display Locked you cannot change the scale of the
viewport or pan the viewport. You can still resize the Viewport.
2. Check the AutoCAD status bar to make sure that PAPER is displayed. If MODEL appears
click once to make PAPER appear.
4. Click in the layout to specify the lower left corner of the new viewport.
5. Click in the layout to specify the upper right corner of the new viewport.
4. Click Restore
Note: Using the NRCS IA BWgray.ctb Plot style table to have gray lines plotted as gray.
OR
4. Click Restore.
5. Click Close.
Note: Use the NRCS IA BWgray.ctb Plot style table to have gray lines plotted as gray.