AutoCAD Civil 3D is stuffed like a platter of Football Playoff Day nachos with an overwhelming number of ways and tools to manipulate our civil engineering and survey data. I’ve said it before. In Civil 3D it pays to ask the question:
“What Do You Watch?
It’s All About that Data Behind.”Happy New Year! Get that mojo workin’. To get more from what we have we must think outside…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 03, 2017
Tags deliverables, point group, Point Label Style, annotation, implementation, video
For reasons unknown I got a recent rash of questions about Civil 3D Label behavior when you employ XREFs. You do know you can label Civil 3D features from XREFs, don’t you?
Autodesk hasn’t really updated this functionality lately.
Yes. There are some weird things about it that can trip up the unwary.Where is 0,0,0?
It seems reasonable to most folks that two drawings…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 03, 2016
Tags XREF, alignment, group labels, Label Style, video
July always reminds me of first steps, moonwalks, and moonlight minds. This makes spatial sense. This month we appear to be on sort of an Export points from AutoCAD Civil 3D bender.
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In each Export post I keep meaning to put in the following moonstep but always seem to simply run out of room. So with a savage terrier dog draped across my toes in a state of fan-cooled repose,…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 28, 2016
Tags Point Label Style, Description Key Set, Description Key, export, publish on demand
People call me up and ask important things to them like,
“How many Pipe Label Styles does your product include?”
“Ah…Let’s see. Civil 3D Gravity Pipe systems are really well covered. I lost count. Then again, for example and as a matter of perspective, there are even 360 Pressure Pipe Labels Styles alone supplied in the Framework. They cover every type of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 26, 2016
Tags pipe network, pressure pipe, pipes, utility, publish on demand, Style, Label Style
What is the economic value of a blog post about something outwardly arcane in AutoCAD Civil 3D? This question sometimes haunts me and all of us who are committed publically to making your Civil 3D workday a bit easier. What’s a 1000 words worth? We deliver. You have to pay attention. Lord knows, I am aware of how hard that is to do.
An updated version of this post with…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 19, 2016
Tags alignment, group labels, reference labels, annotation, corridor, surface, Label Style