Let’s to take a moment for a brief, but important, aside before we pursue our discussion of a numeric Code conversion in InstantOn Survey for AutoCAD Civil 3D. Last time I made reference to Not Keys and BESTWay figures as Production Solution methods we can employ to reduce to our man-hour costs in field gathering.
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 30, 2013
Tags figure prefix db, Description Key Set, figures, codes, not keys, points
Before Christmas I did a quick customization for a Survey customer. He could have done the work himself, but he needed it done now. No problemo. InstantOn Survey (IOS) is an AutoCAD Civil 3D terminator. IOS makes it easy to tweak because it got built that way by Design.
Our surveyor wanted to use a classic numeric coding system you are probably familiar with and that…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 27, 2013
Tags Description Key Set, codes, conversion, survey
We’ve all been annoyed for a long time that AutoCAD Civil 3D doesn’t have a built in Symbol Legend or Abbreviation List generator tool. That was a tool that all old CAD drafting software just had to have. Look all you want through all the many Ribbon menus of Civil 3D and this “simple” tool is nowhere to be found. Arrrrgh!
My bet is you make your current Civil 3D Legends, Lists, and the…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 06, 2013
Tags AddOn, InstantOn, tablestyle, points, Description Key Set, legend
This is the fourth post in a series about Point Display Strategies and Tactics in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
Point Display Strategies - Part 1
Two Paths Out of the Woods - Part 2
The Point Director Method - Part 3
Point to My Match in Civil 3D - Part 4A Host of Matchmakers at Work
Civil…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 20, 2012
Tags Description Key Set, Description Key, figure prefix db, figure, survey db, point, not keys, Point Style, Point Label Style, point display
In the last couple of posts I talked about classic Point Display Strategies and how to develop them.
Point Display Strategies - Part 1
Two Paths Out of the Woods - Part 2
The Point Director Method - Part 3
Point to My Match in Civil 3D - Part 4In the last post we talked…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 18, 2012
Tags customization, Description Key Set, Description Key, implementation, figures, figure prefix db, point, point display, Point Style, Point Label Style