Starting with DTM and Road

If you are looking for a get started guide of Novapoint Road here you´ll find some interesting lessons to begin to work with the road model of Novapoint. Below it´s the table of contents and a direct link of downloading:

Basic lessons

OPENING NOVAPOINT FOR THE FIRST TIME
LESSON 1 – CREATING A NEW PROJECT
LESSON 2 – IMPORTING A SURVEY FILE
LESSON 3 – DRAWING DATA FROM THE DTM
LESSON 4 – UNDERSTANDING THE DTM VIEWER
LESSON 5 – TIDY THE SURVEY
LESSON 6 – TRIANGLULATE THE SURVEY
LESSON 7 – DESIGN A ROAD ALIGNMENT (HORIZONTAL)
LESSON 8 – DRAW HORIZONTAL ALIGNMENT
LESSON 9 – DESIGN A ROAD ALIGNMENT (VERTICAL)
LESSON 10 – DESIGN A ROAD MODEL

Advanced lessons

LESSON 11 – SIGHT DISTANCE
LESSON 12 – EDIT ROAD MODEL
LESSON 13 – CREATE ROAD MODEL FROM EXISTING ROAD (FROM SURVEY)
LESSON 14 – ADD JUNCTION BETWEEN THE 2 ROADS

Download guide “get started with Novapoint Road”

Download tutorials and design guides of Novapoint in spanish

This entry is in spanish, if you want to read it in english click here

Los tutoriales o guías de Novapoint del MDT (Modelo Digital del Terreno) y Road (trazado de carreteras) pueden descargarse desde dos direcciones de Google Docs:

http://fon.gs/novapoint_mdt

http://fon.gs/novapoint_road

Estos tutoriales ayudarán al usuario a iniciarse con el programa y también son específicos para el diseño avanzado.

Opening Novapoint for the first time

The first time you open Novapoint on any computer you’ll notice that you won’t have any of the Novapoint Module toolbars or pull-down menus loaded. You will get a pull-down menu “Novapoint”

1. Double click the Novapoint desktop icon
2. Once AutoCAD has loaded, the Novapoint Project ID dialog will appear. Cancel this dialog box
3. From the Novapoint pull-down menu select Load Module
4. Load the modules Base and Road Professional

Explanation of the buttons:

Loads the selected module.

Unloads the selected module.

The license is available (in a network means that at least one license is available)

The license has been started.

No more licenses available for this module.

The menu and toolbar is loaded automatically on start-up of Novapoint, but the license will only be Loaded once a command has been selected.

The menu, toolbar and license is loaded automatically on start-up of Novapoint.

Used to cancel above two options (load menu with license and load menu only).