Zone creation is a little different from the other activities in the Site Productivity.
Zones can be created by using Site Management addon to Autodesk Civil 3D. Please contact your local reseller about installing the addon.
Install the addon and proceed to zone creation.
When creating a zone, it must be geographically in the right location and the coordinate reference systems (EPSG code) must be known.
Site Management addon
After a successful installation, Site Management tab can be found in Autodesk Civil 3D.
Site Management addon in Civil 3D
Next, click Site Manager on the left hand side of the ribbon. This will open a new view to Civil 3D.
Empty view of the Site Manager addon in Civil 3d
When using the addon for the first time the Site Manager addon view is empty.
First step is to sign in to Site Productivity. and that is done by clicking the person icon on the right top corner. Clicking will open a browser and Be.Smart Sign in page.
Sign in page
Fill in username and password and finalize the sign in process, click Sign in.
Zones
After a successful sign in process, the machines, zones and grids can be found from the view.
Test - server, with zones and machines associated with it
Next step is to start defining the zones, this can be done in two different way, either by drawing a zone or converting an existing area from a drawing into a zone.
Access the menu by right-clicking Zones in the menu.
Zones -menu, note Draw and Convert options
Convert an existing area to a zone
Select Convert like shown in the image above. Clicking it will ask user to select the objects (to be converted into zones).
Selecting an existing area
Once the selection is done, press enter to end the command. The command line in Civil 3d informs, that two objects were created successfully. Please note that the areas must be closed, so they can converted into zones.
Successfully created objects.
Next step is to open the Properties, if not open already. Proceed to select an object (MPolygon) from the drawing. The MPolygon object is the result of the conversion done in the previous step.
Selecting a Mpolygon from the drawing.
Now that the Mpolygon object is selected, scroll down to the bottom of the Properties view. There is a section called Zone, containing a few fields of information that needs to be filled in.
Properties view, zone information filled in
Go ahead and fill in the Name of the zone and also the Site, where this zone belongs to. Please repeat this step for all of the Zones, that are being created at the moment.
Uploading zones to the server
Next step is to upload the created zones to the server.
Select the MPolygons (or zones), which have the Zone information filled in, from the map. Click Check-in button from the Site Manager tool and proceed with the upload.
Selected zones and Check-in button
After this a new dialog opens, asking to choose the features to be checked in. After the selection, proceed by clicking Next.
Choose the features -dialog
The next dialog asks for the coordinate reference system (CRS), where these features are located in.
Selection is done by clicking the globe button on the right side of the dialog. This opens up a new dialog listing all the possible coordinate reference systems. List may be filtered by text or EPSG code.
Coordinate reference system selected
After the right CRS is selected, proceed by clicking Finish. The command line will inform whether the check-in successful or not.
