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The last Parcel post we met the AutoCAD Civil 3D Site Parcel’s planar nodal topology engine. This is a model somewhat like the surface model we know all too well. The familiar surface TIN eats point data (x,y,z locations) and it’s triangle edges are edited and forced by breakline data (x,y,z pairs).

The Parcel topology model plays by another set of…

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In the previous post we talked about how the related civil engineering disciplines “see” parcels and their data differently - so much for getting a nice brown-paper wrapper and a string on the parcel. Much like junk mail these differences of expectation will continue to show up. These show up in the AutoCAD Civil 3D interface and its functional tools.
Keep the tool-using thoughts I mentioned…

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It’s probably been too long since I really posted about AutoCAD Civil 3D Parcels. Looking back I don’t think I ever really posted on the Civil 3D Site Parcel collector and it’s mechanics in much detail here.  I decided it was time to do a write up. This will take a number of posts. There is a lot going on the Parcels.

Gimmie Gimmie That Funky Stuff

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Earlier this month there was a barrage of tweets about the stock templates that ship with AutoCAD Civil 3D. By in large everyone seems to agree Autodesk’s stock templates are pretty pathetic. Many users attest they are “useless” or worse. There were a few tweets that contained replacement characters like #@$%.

What the Tweet?

Their original creator (who shall remain unnamed here)…

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Yeah we celebrate the birth of unquestionably the most important person in His story perhaps in the “wrong” month, maybe even in the “wrong” season, and with arguably some pretty inappropriate behaviors these days. At least we partly recognize Him. Maybe that will come to an end in modern America. I doubt it.

Hope is Eternal

At times I travel a lot. I have a good bit of contact…

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