Let’s face it. Most of the time we all tend to initially shoot for some form of published annotation. It’s a habit. For surveyors this means data out of Survey Dbs. The Lord knows, I hope you have moved beyond imported point files to better manage your survey data behind. You Civil 3D design folks heard that too? For civil engineers this often also means linear design stuff that needs to be annotated.
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 04, 2016
Tags label, line label, curve label, Label Style, Label Set, Label Style Defaults, View, ViewFrame, video
The vast majority of Styles in AutoCAD Civil 3D are annotative. Mostly these are Label Styles although Table Styles can also help us out significantly as well. These Styles are designed to pump out the Civil 3D data we create in the Civil Features in alpha-numeric or “textual” formats.
When you check out the Label Styles in the Toolspace>>Settings tab you also discover the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 12, 2013
Tags customization, implementation, Style, Style Management, settings, lsd, Label Style Defaults, hierarchy
People ask why we put the “-JS” at the end of our Jump Production Solution Style names. This simple device serves a significant purpose – How do you know the difference between Styles?
AutoCAD Civil 3D doesn’t really care what you name anything, but the odds are it will matter to you pretty quickly.Coming Attractions
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 04, 2013
Tags Style, Style Management, 2012, 2013, 2014, Label Style Defaults, implementation, customization