Creating a new zone

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.

Site Management addon

After a successful installation, Site Management tab can be found in Autodesk Civil 3D.

Next, click Site Manager on the left hand side of the ribbon. This will open a new view to 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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

After this a new dialog opens, asking to choose the features to be checked in. After the selection, proceed by clicking Next.

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.

After the right CRS is selected, proceed by clicking Finish. The command line will inform whether the check-in successful or not.

Define elevations for the zones

This step is optional, so it is not always needed. Elevations for the zones are defined in the web platform, which can be accessed here: https://sms-dashboard-prod.arkance-development.info/

Navigate to Zones -page by selecting it from the left side of the page.

Next step is to select the wanted zone from the list and click the blue edit icon next to it.

It opens up the details about the zone and shows its geometry on a map.

To define the elevations, access the elevations tab and click Add New.

Three things need to be defined:

• Name

  • This will be used in the reports as a prefix for the actual zone name

• Max elevation

  • The highest absolute z-value of this zone

• Min elevation

  • The lowest absolute z-value of this zone

After these are defined, click save to continue.