Training Course Outlines...
Half Day Session
The session is intended for new users of 12d Model.
Little or no experience is assumed, but participants gain more from the
course if they have worked through the first part of the 12d Model Training
Manual. The training session starts from the
basic use of strings to model ground surfaces, and develops the concepts of
computerised digital terrain modelling using 12d Model.
The course is ideal for those who need an understanding of ground modelling
using 12d Model, but who do not necessarily have a need for road design skills.
Participants will learn to:
- Navigate in 12d Models graphical user interface.
- Read data into 12d Model, and triangulate that data to form a Digital Terrain Model.
- Create contour strings from the DTM.
- Create plan, section and perspective views and view the DTM in these views.
- Create different types of strings in 12d Model, and understand the different uses that can be made of the strings.
- Edit and modify the elevation and location of the strings.
- Explore the COGO functionality in 12d Model.
- Analyse a pad foundation using 12d Model. Vary the level of the foundation to balance earthwork volumes. View the completed design in a perspective view.
This is a foundation course in the use of 12d Model, and is aimed novice users.
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3/4 Day Session
This session is intended to follow on from the Basic Ground Modelling Course,
and participation in that course, or a working knowledge of 12d Model is
assumed.
Participants will learn to:
- Create a tin (triangulated irregular network) of survey data.
- Create the horizontal and vertical geometry of a road alignment.
- Investigate the tools available for accurately locating road geometry.
- Create the template for a road, and apply the template to the alignment to create a simple road design.
- View the road design in a perspective view, and do a drive through of the new road.
- Edit the road alignment, and run the design again. Observe changes in cut and fill volumes, and extent of cut and fill.
- View the cross sections to assess the design.
- Edit the template and run the design again. Observe the changes to the design.
This is a beginners course, and is aimed at new users.
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Half Day Session
This session is intended to follow on from the Basic Modelling Course,
and participation in that course, or a working knowledge of 12d Model is assumed.
Participants will:
- Analyse a site based on the topographic survey to determine areas suitable for development.
- Creating the outline of a building pad, and determine the footprint of the pad on the existing surface. Analysing the volume of the pad by both cross section and exact (prismoidal) methods.
- Varying the level of the pad to balance earthwork volumes. Viewing the completed design in a perspective view.
- Creating an outline of the floor and top of a detention basin. Creating a model of the detention basin, and shading the basin walls based on slope.
- Analysing the storage volume available in the detention basin, both for the whole basin, and in depth increments (determine the storage curve).
- Creating a "stripped" surface for the basin, and determining topsoil volume. Analysing volumes between the floor of the basin and the stripped surface.
This course is aimed at users with a working knowledge of 12d Model, or those who have completed the 'Basic Ground Modelling' course.
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Half Day Session
This session covers the procedures for taking electronic data collected on a Total Station or GPS unit, and reducing the data into 12d Model.
Steps covered include reducing the data, correcting miss-coded points and other field errors, manipulating the data into models (layers) with colours / linestyles / symbols applied.
This course is NOT intended for complete beginners, and you will be expected to understand the basics of 12d Model - creating a plan view, adding models to the view, panning and zooming etc. These topics are covered in the ‘Basic Ground Modelling’ course.
Participants learn to:
- Setup 12d Model to receive data from your instrument.
- Download data; convert into 12d Models field (neutral) format.
- Create a (survey data reduction) function to import the field file into 12d Model.
- Manipulate the data into models (layers) with colours / linestyles / symbols through a map file.
- Fully utilize 12d Models coding, including the use of commands for curve fitting, pipes, templates etc.
- Use 12d Model to correct codes/target heights and other typical field errors.
- Check for crossing breaklines and other irregularities.
- Triangulate the data and view the contours.
- Create cross sections through a survey.
- Plot the results and/or transfer the data to an external package.
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Half Day Session
This session covers manually creating and editing data, and creating upload files for your particular survey instrument.
This course is not intended for complete beginners, and you will be expected to understand the basics of 12d Model - creating a plan view, adding models to the view, panning and zooming etc. These topics are included in the ‘Basic Ground Modelling’ course. Prior completion of ‘Survey 1 - Survey Data Reduction‘ is also assumed.
Participants learn to:
- Use string-editing techniques to manipulate existing data.
- Enter information by bearing and distance, including cadastral information.
- Use 12d Models Cogo functions.
- Create cadastral lots, and automatically label them.
- Create a house setout, including offset pegs.
- Take a typical road design, including alignments and kerb returns and create setout information.
- Using the above exercises, create relevant upload files for sending to Survey instruments.
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3/4 Day Session
This session is intended to follow on from the Basic Road Design Course,
and participation in that course, or a good working knowledge of 12d Model is
assumed.
Participants will:
- Use a many template file to stop and start the road strings at an intersection.
- Inspect the cross sections created by the template modifiers.
- Apply topsoil stripping to the design, and assess the effect on earthwork volumes.
- Triangulate the design strings, and compare the volumes calculated "tin to tin" with the volumes reported from cross section end areas.
- View the road design in a perspective view, and do a drive through of the new road.
- Use template modifiers to insert a median strip into the road and to vary its width. Create a taper at the start of the median, and adjust the carriageway to suit.
- Create a NJ kerb for part of the road central reserve.
- Adjust the slope of the batter for part of the design to ensure the road stays within the road corridor.
This course is aimed at users with a working knowledge of 12d Model, and some experience of road design.
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Half Day Session
This session covers the use of the 'Create Roads' options in 12d Model, and the concept of 'Continuous Design'.
12d Model's 'Create Roads' option will automatically create road strings, cross sections, kerb returns,
and culdesac heads for a layout of Local (Estate / Subdivision) Roads. The 'Continuous Design' functionality enormously enhanced in Version 8
of 12d Model allows the road network to be completed quickly and effectivly.
This is an advanced course: Users are expected to have a good understanding of road design in 12d Model, OR have attended the 'Basic Road Design'
and 'Advanced Road Design - Template Modifiers' course.
Participants will:
- Review of Road Creation in 12d Model - specifically:
- Using a 'Shared' tin of the survey in your design project
- Loading templates from a template library
- Review of road grading techniques using the Super Alignment (I.P. methods only).
- The Apply Many function in Version 8
- Creating and grading fillets (wings / kerb returns).
- Triangulating the design, and producing finished contours.
- Designing a network of Estate Roads using the 'Create Roads' function.
- Changing the fillet radii for the major road intersections
- Adding cul de sac heads
- Adding road widening and changing of design templates.
- Changing a road width to allow for a new bus bay, changing the intersection kerb returns.
- Automatically creating/updating the design tin and contours.
- Using the new V8 Chains functionality to update Chainage labelling, Long Section, Cross Section and Kerb Return plotting.
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Half Day Session
This session is intended to follow on from the Template Modifiers Course,
and participation in that course, or a good working knowledge of 12d Model is
assumed. Participants will:
- Create a simple fillet as a kerb return on one side of a tee intersection.
- Use a macro to create a 3 centred curve on the other side of the intersection.
- Use the automatic kerb return function to grade the kerb returns.
- Apply templates to the kerb returns to complete the intersection.
- Triangulate the design strings and inspect the intersection in Perspective view.
- Modify the main road vertical alignment through the intersection, and regrade.
- Shade the triangulation based on road grade. Check for areas of poor drainage.
This course is aimed at users with a working knowledge of 12d Model, and some experience of road design.
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Half Day Session
Version 7 of 12d Model introduced the "Super Alignment".
This string type allows Alignments to be created using traditional
I.P. methods, OR by defining the elements of the Alignment geometry.
For example a curve can be defined using three I.P.s and a radius, OR by
two points, a centre and a radius. The latter method
results in NO I.P.s and is referred to as "Parametric Design".
This session is intended for skilled users of 12d Model who wish to extend their skills to use the new Super Alignment.
The course will cover:
- Defining the three types of "Elements" used in the Super Alignment, that
is "Fixed", "Floating" and "Free".
- Methods of creating and adjusting Fixed Elements.
- Connecting Fixed, Floating and Free elements together.
- Design of trunk road horizontal geometry using both I.P. and Parametric methods. Comparison of the two methods.
- Design of trunk road vertical geometry using Parametric methods.
Investigate techniques for fixing low points, and intersecting road centrelines.
- Creation of kerb returns and a turning heads, using Fixed and Free elements that are defined from road centrelines.
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Half Day Session
With the release of Version 8, the "Super Alignment" has been packed full with additional tools.
The "Computator" has arrived. Developed to help users link geometric strings
(road centrelines, kerb returns, roundabouts, interchanges, entry / exit ramps, traffic islands etc),
both horizontally and vertically.
The power of this development allows users to change one road and have other side roads;
kerb returns and associated pedestrian islands automatically update and their changes outputted
with greater speed and consistency.
This session is intended for skilled users of 12d Model who wish to extend their Super Alignment skills to the next level.
The course will cover:
- Creation of a road intersection, linking two roads and kerb returns, so vertical or horizontal changes
to the geometry will happen automatically.
- Construction of a roundabout using Parametric methods for Horizontal Geometry, then using a mixture of
I.P. and Elements for the vertical design.
- Construction of Traffic Islands, which will automatically re-size and vertically adjust when the roundabout moves.
- "Closing" the roundabout centre island string to simplify the vertical design.
- Horizontal and Vertical computation of a left hand turn bay into a proposed sub-division.
- Creation of a pedestrian underpass, vertically linked to a proposed road (similar tools would be used
to create a grade separated interchange), which will vertically update when the main road is modified.
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Half Day Session
This session is intended to follow on from the Advanced Road Design - Template Modifiers course, and participation in that course or very good working knowledge of 12d model is assumed.
The Decisional Template is an advanced road design tool, used to automatically calculate various scenarios and "decide" which design method is required. Eg. When to introduce benching in a deep cut/fill, or modifying batter slopes due to rock strata’s.
Participants will:
- Gain an understanding as to why & when, we use the Decisional Template.
- Create a simple Decisional Template to ensure a project sub-grade remains dry.
- Create coding to ensure 12d automatically generates a table drain when in cut.
- Work through a Decisional Template used to create benching in a deep cutting area and the calculation process 12d model performs.
- Modify a Decisional Template to use different batter treatments given various known strata surfaces (Eg. in rock batter slope 1 in 1, in clay batter 1 in 4).
This course is aimed at users with a good working knowledge of 12d Model, those who have completed the Template Modifiers course.
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Half Day Session
This session is intended for users with some knowledge of 12d Model,
who wish to design Stormwater and Gravity Sewer systems using 12d Model,
and to check the coordination of the stormwater/sewer lines with other utility services.
New users should attend the Basic Ground Modelling and/or work through the first parts of the 12d Model Training Manual.
This course will NOT cover the exchange of data with hydraulic design packages,
but instead will focus on the tools within 12d Model to design a system of pits and pipes, to model other services (gas mains, banks of electricity ducts etc) and to adjust the stormwater system to avoid clashes with these services.
The course will cover:-
- Importing data into 12d Model, and triangulating to form a surface.
- Extracting the strings that are useful to a drainage designer from the road design.
- Creating a sewer drainage network, and checking that the automatic pipe grading created by 12d Model will allow the entire system to drain.
- Creating "superstrings" to model underground services, and checking for clashes with the sewer drainage line.
- Creating a stormwater drainage system, and checking for clashes with other services, and with the sewer line.
- Adjusting the levels of the pipe inverts to provide clearance to the other services, and exploring the different methods to achieve this.
This course is aimed at users with a working knowledge of 12d Model, or those who have completed the 'Basic Ground Modelling' course.
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Half Day Session
This session is intended to follow on from the "Drainage and Utility Service
Design" course, and we assume that you have participated in that course, or have
a good working knowledge of creating and editing drainage strings. The course
will cover:
- Locating (and marking) low points on the road design strings.
- Tools for positioning pits at required interval along the road.
- Assigning pit names and labelling the pits.
- Setting up rainfall data.
- Setting up default hydraulic and hydrological parameters.
- Assigning hydraulic and hydrological parameters to individual pits.
- Drawing catchments and automatic / manual methods of assigning catchments
to pits.
- Defining catchment flowpaths, and calculating Tc values.
- Analysing the system using 12d Model. Calculating the Hydraulic Grade
Line, resizing pipes / culverts, and determining pipe flows and velocities.
- Producing Hydrology and Hydraulic Reports (as defined in AR&R).
- Producing long sections and annotated plans for the system.
- Methods of exchanging data with other hydraulic / hydrological packages.
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Half Day Session
This course builds on the work done in DUSD, but focuses on the techniques for
using Drains for the Hydrolological and Hydraulic work.
12d Model’s drainage analysis engine uses Rational Hydrology. This means that while
pipe sizes and invert levels can be set, it is not possible to model attenuation of discharge
(that is the use of detention basins and the like).
Drains will allow you to do a Hydraulic and Hydrological analysis of the network
based on time/area hydrology, and this includes the use of detention structures.
The course will cover:
- The synchronising of pit & pipe databases in 12d and Drains.
- Creating a drainage network with catchment areas, bypass flows and the measuring of road
grade and cross-slopes for pit inlet capacities.
- Exporting the network to Drains
- Analysing of the drainage model and importing the calculated results back into 12d
for presentation (plan and longitudinal sections) and engineering verification.
- Adding, deleting or moving of a pit location and the process of exporting,
re-analysing and the importing of changed drainage data.
- Fixing mix-matched 12d and Drains database problems.
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Half Day Session
This session is intended for users with some knowledge of 12d Model, who wish to use 12d Model to create HEC-RAS projects, and to display the results of the HEC-RAS analysis.
Instruction will be given in the use of HEC-RAS as a flood analysis tool, however this course is not a substitute for the 2 day courses in HEC RAS run at the UTS.
The course will cover:
- Reading survey data into 12d Model, and triangulating that data to create a surface. Inspecting contours, and determining the location of overbanks.
- Locating cross sections along the channel (both manually, and automatically).
- Using 12d Model to create a HEC-RAS "Project".
- Using HEC RAS to determine flood water levels along the channel.
- Adding "Interpolated" cross sections in HEC-RAS and reading these back to 12d Model.
- Reading the flood water levels back into 12d Model, and forming a water surface. The use of "Shape" strings, and HEC-RAS "Interpolated" sections.
- Creating depth contours, and colouring the water surface by depth.
- Creating a Perspective view of the channel, showing the area of inundation
- Plotting longitudinal profiles, and cross sections of the channel.
As well as giving the user hands-on experience in the use of the 12d Model /
HEC-RAS interface, this course will also explore the methods and assumptions
that 12d Model uses when exchanging data with HEC RAS.
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Half Day Session
Project Visualisation has moved in leaps and bounds since it was first introduced into 12d Model. Some clients are now requesting users to produce 3d images of their projects to better understand and explain the finished project to prospective stakeholders
This session is intended for skilled users of 12d Model who wish to extend their skills into visualisation and the presentation of projects for clients.
The course will cover:
- The creation of a composite Tin.
- Draping Raster Arial photographs onto the finished surface.
- Creating and applying the many standard 12d model textures and colours to the tin surface.
- The application of modelled roadside furniture using extruded shapes (e.g. guide posts, guard rails, street lighting, fences).
- The placement of billboard images such as trees, shrubs, traffic signs etc at specified locations.
- The addition of on-site digital photos as backdrops.
- The production of AVI Movies to create the finished product.
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