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
If you train a bunch of AutoCAD using folk in AutoCAD Civil 3D you get some common questions. Errr. Actually these questions are usually formed as a statement. For example:
“We make a lot of stuff in our drawings that isn’t Civil 3D stuff. Civil 3D also seems to need lots and lots of Layers too. All these Layers are confusing. We probably don’t need them. Can we do anything about that…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Jun 11, 2013
Facebook makes its public play. How much do you think the social network is worth? In this post, we'll continue to explore how the personal actions of one unknown man changes history. Our man in the straw hat somehow manages to redefine how we experience the past, the present, and probably our future. Is that what cultural change is?
In our last…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 22, 2012
Tags man with no name, straw hat, history, Style, Style Management
Feature Styles, Label Styles, and Sets are separate and independent from the Feature Data. This good news. How we want to express or represent stuff in AutoCAD Civil 3D is almost without limit. The bad news is we forget and deal with Civil 3D style like it was a fancy version of old school CAD stuff. We’re human and we are visual. To see it is to believe it.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 19, 2012
Tags surface, Style, Surface Style, feature line, workflow, implementation, management, Style Management
Our Jump Customers often ask really good questions about tweaking the thousands of Civil 3D Styles we offer.
"Is there a way that you can make the curve label style not show all the 0’s ahead of the degree for the delta of the curve?
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For example, if the delta is 8° 23’ 34”, then it is displaying as 008° 23’ 34”.
My preference would be to not show all the 0’s before the…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 23, 2012
Tags label, Label Style, Text Component Editor, Style, Style Management, line label, curve label