Creating a new zone
Zone creation is a little different from the other activities in the Site Productivity.
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Zone creation is a little different from the other activities in the Site Productivity.
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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.
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 Management addon view is empty.
First step is to log in to the right tenant.
To access the to the right tenant, fill in the needed information;
Host - IP address of the server
Tenant ID
Username
Password
To finalize the login process, click Login.
After a successful login process, the machines and zones 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.
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.
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.
