Just about a year ago I wrote a post called Point Dreams in the Annotative View Space which dealt with some of the issues we all have with AutoCAD Civil 3D Point Features. There are lots of posts here about the Points beast for a host of reasons – mostly customer…
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Tench Tilghman
Oct 18, 2012
Tags alignment, catchment, corridor, feature line, intersection, point, point group, point display, profile, pressure pipe, pipes, surface, wish
Secular - This oft misunderstood and misused term underlies the current great debate we continue to struggle with in our American society. Here’s the formal definition:
Secular
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- of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests
- not pertaining to or connected with religion ( opposed…
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Tench Tilghman
Oct 15, 2012
Tags WATT
In the previous post we talked about Line and Curve Labels which are a pretty fundamental annotative object and task in AutoCAD Civil 3D. We covered the basic edit and create functions and some other more tricky stuff. We learned that a Line & Curve Label is simple and flexible.
Where’s Your Focus?
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Tench Tilghman
Oct 10, 2012
Tags annotation, annotative scale, Label Style, named views, Style
Real quick now - What are the differences between the plethora of Line and Curve Labels in AutoCAD Civil 3D?
Oops! Please do it That Way
Yep. Some are Civil 3D Feature (object) specific like Alignment, Parcel, and the latest new Figure…
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Tench Tilghman
Oct 05, 2012
Tags annotation, curve label, Style, Label Style, Label Set, label, line label
In the last couple of posts we chatted about employing AutoCAD Civil 3D COGO Point Features as quality assurance and quality control devices. In the last post we talked about the basic setups of Features, Style, and Sets required to make Tracking By Point work.
How About Some Practical Production Tips
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Tench Tilghman
Sep 27, 2012
Tags Description Key, Description Key Set, figure, points, point group, QA, QC, QAQC, surface, track, profile, Quick Profile, survey db