01 01 INTRODUCTION - MDT25
1.1 Introduction
This manual is aimed at facilitating the application learning process, with the development of a step-by-step project and in different stages. In the Reference Manual, you will find complete information about all aspects not addressed herein. We assume that the CAD is installed correctly and that, in relation to the TCP-MDT, the Installation Guide instructions have been followed. For all the examples we assume that the installation directory is C:\Program Files\Aplitop\MDT25, and the project directory is C:\MDT25_Projects.
To make explanations easily understood, a series of screenshots have been included, in which the CAD version is shown. The aspect offered by the remaining CAD-supported versions is similar, and its operation is the same.
In order to show the capacity of the program for both small and large jobs, 21 different examples are included. To carry out some of them, it is necessary to have the Professional version (PRO), the Topography module (TOP) or the Imaging module (IMG), as detailed below.
1. The case of a small survey of about 100 points is considered, on which point management operations and definition of breaklines will be carried out.
2. Triangulation, bending, profiles, etc., operations are carried out, as well as the application of different tools on the profiles already generated and drawn
3. It is a matter of carrying out the necessary process to calculate volumes by difference in profiles and difference in meshes from two different states of the ground.
4. Slope maps, slope directions, shadows, heights, roughness and visibility are generated with their respective commands.
5. Work is carried out with plots, carrying out subdivision, grouping and delimitation operations.
6. GIS files are imported and exported, and connected to map web services.
7. Point clouds are used to create meshes and surfaces, and data from a Tcp PointCloud Editor project is aggregated.
8. (PRO) This is a larger job, in which practically all the functions are executed from previously prepared files, and is mainly intended for the design of grades, superelevations, overwidths, standard sections, etc.
9. (PRO) Having defined the section in the previous exercise, we will now move on to defining a more complex section, in this case it will be a section in which an existing road surface is to be used.
10. (PRO) In this section we will deal with everything related to the definition of pavement layers and their measurement.
11. (PRO) In this exercise, the obtaining of the modified land, the obtaining of volumes and the realistic layout and presentation are carried out.
12. (PRO) The creation of esplanades, as well as the execution of earthworks, knowing the level of earthwork or the contacts with the ground, as well as the drawing of solids and rendering, is practised.
13. (PRO) An alignment is constructed using various tools from tracing elements (lines, curves and clothoids), and then converted to an axis ready to be used in other commands.
14. (PRO) Practical application of a road intersection, both in horn-type junctions and road junctions.
15. (TOP) Example detailing the operation of the topography module, with the conversion of a file from a data collector, calculation of its coordinates.
16. (TOP) Exercise where we will perform compensation calculations of traverses and networks.
17. (TOP) Exercise where geodetic calculations are addressed.
18. (IMG) Practical example describing the most important functionalities in terms of image processing.
19. (PRO) BIM models, property assignment and import and export of IFC files.
20. (PRO) Project for the design of rainwater and sanitation networks.
21. (PRO) Allocation of work units and generation of measurement and budget reports.