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
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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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 05, 2012
Tags annotation, curve label, Style, Label Style, Label Set, label, line label
Last post we talked about basic tracking tools like User accountability, Autodesk Design Review, and employment of the Feature Description fields in AutoCAD Civil 3D and how they apply to QA tracking. Here’s how to employ AutoCAD Civil 3D COGO Point Features for QA/QC and fix tracking.
This works well in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013+. In older releases…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 24, 2012
Tags QA, QC, points, Point Style, survey db, surface, track, survey, figures
In the previous post we talked about some basic issues with Corridor annotation if we rely on Surface Features to generate the annotation. I even proposed a new Surface Group Label that referenced all forms of horizontal control.
In early AutoCAD…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 13, 2012
Tags Code Set Styles, codes, corridor, corridor surface, surface, annotation, points, Point Label Style