Pinellas County CADD Standards Manual for …

1 Pinellas County cadd Standards Manual for Survey and Civil engineering April, 2020 Version cadd Standards Manual April, 2020 Introduction Page 2 Table of Contents Introduction .. 5 Purpose .. 5 Scope .. 5 General .. 5 Pinellas County Kit .. 6 Release Notes .. 6 AutoCAD Standards .. 7 Pinellas County Standard Template Files .. 7 Layers .. 7 AutoCAD Styles .. 7 Fonts .. 8 Linetypes .. 9 Line Weight .. 9 Plotting with AutoCAD Civil 3D .. 11 CAD Standards Checker .. 12 Civil 3D 14 Civil 3D O bjects .. 14 Starting Civil 3D .. 14 Civil 3D P rojects .. 14 Civil 3D Drawing Creation .. 18 Standard File Names .. 19 Survey D rawing File Naming Conventions.

2 20 engineering Drawing File Naming Conventions .. 25 Civil 3D Workflows and Drawing Combinations .. 27 Sheet Set Manager .. 42 Data Shortcuts .. 43 Pinellas County Ribbon Tab .. 44 Survey & Mapping .. 48 Points .. 48 cadd Standards Manual April, 2020 Introduction Page 3 Point Format .. 48 Point Groups .. 48 Point Label Styles .. 49 Symbology and Description Keys .. 49 Figure Prefix Database .. 56 Linework Codesets .. 59 Graphic Symbols .. 60 Importing ASCII Files .. 60 Alignments .. 61 Digital Terrain Models (Surfaces) .. 62 Survey Title Blocks .. 65 Additional Survey Process Information .. 66 Civil engineering .. 67 Points .. 67 Point Format.

3 67 Point Label Styles .. 68 Alignments .. 68 Digital Terrain Models (Surfaces) .. 70 Profiles .. 72 74 Pipes .. 75 Plans Production .. 78 Quantity Take-Off .. 78 Symbology .. 80 Project Journal File .. 82 Standard cadd Layers .. 85 Layer Prefix and Suffix Descriptions .. 85 Standard Layers .. 85 Digital Delivery .. 93 General .. 93 Signing and Sealing Contract Plans .. 93 cadd Standards Manual April, 2020 Introduction Page 4 Manual Signing and Sealing .. 93 Digital Signing and Sealing .. 94 Single Digital Signature .. 95 Multiple Digital Signature .. 96 Signing and Sealing Revisions .. 96 Foreign Plan Sheets .. 97 cadd Standards Manual April, 2020 Introduction Page 5 Introduction Purpose The electronic files created during the process of developing a Computer Aided Design and Drafting ( cadd ) project for Pinellas County (from here on referred to as PC ) are to be shared and referenced by many different individuals and must satisfy various needs.

4 The electronic files must be shareable in a format that most, if not all, parties can utilize. Therefore, cadd processes must be established for disciplines that share in the cadd development workflow. This cadd Standards Manual outlines the required Standards , conventions and formats necessary to ensure the most usable cadd data set to the foreseeable customers of the cadd data, while providing the producer / developer of the cadd data information necessary to accomplish the task. Scope This cadd Standards Manual sets forth supplemental guidelines to the Pinellas County cadd Project Administration Manual . The material presented within this guideline will be monitored as a critical requirement under the cadd Quality Assurance plan.

5 This document is written for cadd users producing plans and maps for PC. It provides the guidelines to produce electronic cadd files according to PC cadd Standards in conjunction with PC cadd software. General Chapter 334 of the Florida Statues, known as the Florida Transportation Code, establishes the responsibilities of the State, Counties, and Municipalities for the planning and development of the transportation systems serving the people of Florida, with the objective of assuring development of an integrated, balanced statewide system. The Code's purpose is to protect the safety and general welfare of the people of the State and to preserve and improve all transportation facilities in Florida.

6 Under Section (2), the Code sets forth the powers and duties of PC in conjunction with the Department of Transportation to develop and adopt uniform minimum Standards and criteria for the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of public roads. The guidelines in this PC cadd Standards Manual and the FDOT Production Criteria represent minimum requirements that must be met for the development PC cadd projects. While the guidelines contained in this writing provide a basis for uniform cadd practice for PC projects, precise rules that would apply to all possible situations that may arise are impossible to give. Situations will exist where these Standards will not apply.

7 If variances from the PC cadd Project Administration Manual or PC cadd Standards Manual are necessary for a project, they must be approved in writing by the Project Manager and documented in the Project Journal file as defined herein. March, 2020 Release Notes Page 6 cadd Standards Manual Pinellas County Kit PC utilizes Autodesk software as a standard for all civil engineering and land surveying projects. PC currently uses the following cadd software products: AutoCAD Civil 3D AutoCAD Raster Design To help increase, enforce and maintain consistency of the drawings created for PC, the Pinellas County Kit for Civil 3D 2020 has been created and is required for all projects.

8 Leveraging components of the FDOT State Kit, the PC Kit includes Civil 3D content necessary to complete projects for PC. The following custom content is included in the PC Kit for Civil 3D: Drawing templates containing Civil 3D styles Plans production templates Project templates Sheet Set Manager template Title blocks Pipes catalog Quantity take-off pay items PC ribbon tab and workspace Design Center content Autodesk Batch Standards Checker files All new projects must use the latest version of the PC Kit. The kit is available on the Pinellas County website. Please make sure you are using the latest version of the kit prior to starting any PC project.

9 Release Notes The Pinellas County Kit for Civil 3D 2020 is designed to be centralized on a network share and has several dependencies to function properly. For detailed release and installation information, please view the release notes. March, 2020 AutoCAD Standards Page 7 cadd Standards Manual AutoCAD Standards Pinellas County Standard Template Files Included with the PC Kit for Civil 3D are 3 drawing template files that have been configured with PC Standards . These templates should be used when working on PC projects: Template File Name Description This is the main template file that should be used when starting any new engineering or Surveying drawing.

10 This template file should only be used when using the plans production tools contained within Civil 3D. This file contains all of the PC standard title blocks. This file should not be used directly! Instead, use the insert title block routine built into the Pinellas County ribbon tab. Layers All PC standard layers are included in the drawing template. To help navigate through the layer list, several layer filters have been created depending on the situation: Layer Filter Description All Used Layers All layers that contain entities in the drawing PC C3D Object Civil 3D object layers PC engineering Layer filter to isolate proposed layers PC Survey Layer filter to isolate existing layers PC Production-non-util Layer filter used in conjunction with the invert filter option to isolate non-utility layers AutoCAD Styles Text Styles All text in an AutoCAD drawing has a text style associated with it.