More Assembly Improvements

As I discussed in my previous post, Civil 3D 2013 has added some significant improvements in regards to the way we create our assemblies and subassemblies.  Another new feature added is the recognition of the side that you are selecting when adding a subassembly to another.  I have select the standard curb and gutter subassembly to add the lane outside super subassembly on the right.  Notice that I purposely have selected the side to be left.

In the screen capture below, you can see that I have selected the right side of the lane.

You can see below, that despite have the curb subassembly set to left, Civil 3D determines that we really need it to be on the right side.

A few other options that have been added when you are about to add a subassembly is insert and replace.

The first option is insert.  This allows the user to insert a subassembly between two existing ones.  In the past we would have to delete a portion of the assembly to accomplish this.  It is important to note that the user needs to select a portion of the existing subassembly that the user wants to insert between.  In the capture below, the user needs to touch a portion of the lane to get the generic link to connect between it and the curb.

As you can see below, the generic link as added between the two.

The other option that we will look at is replace.  Replace allows the user to replace one subasembly for another.  The user simply selects the new subassembly from the tool palette, and picks the one to remove.  These two new options give greater flexibility and time savings to the user.