A point is a point is a point. Along came Civil 3D and turned all this simple stuff on its head. The idea was to make the whole point symbols and label thing more useful, less time consuming, and much more flexible. Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
It’s fair to say that most people said, “You’ve got to be kidding.”
Annotative Madness
Did…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 08, 2015
Tags symbol, Symbol Set, block, Point Style, Point Label Style, COGO points
Recently, Shaan Hurley of Autodesk, posted a tweet to a real cool Autodesk YouTube marketing video on Autodesk Recap 360, GoPro camera, and Autodesk Revit. The recording demonstrated the use digital GoPro camera pics shot from a DJI Phantom quadcopter UAS to rapidly…
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In the last few Parcel posts we learned about the Site Parcel Feature’s topology engine. We unwrapped this planar and nodal based topology model that underlies how Parcels work. This unique engine powers the design functionality we get out of Site Parcel’s dynamic model in…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 31, 2013
Tags inverse, mapcheck, COGO Editor, Mapcheck Feature, Survey Mapcheck, parcel, site parcel
I chatted about the Survey Figure Editor in a few posts earlier last month. It’s probably time to talk about its kissin’ cousin – the COGO Editor. How are these tools related? Let’s see.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 05, 2012
Tags COGO Editor, COGO, Survey Figure Editor, alignment, parcel, figure, figure edit
Seems to me there’s always one more important thing you forget to mention whenever you talk about anything in AutoCivil 3D. Survey Figure generation is no exception. In my last post I brought up the ongoing big ones that seem to puzzle and perplex many surveyed users.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 15, 2012
Tags survey, survey db, survey figure, survey point, 2012, 2013, COGO, COGO points, point, point display, point group