AutoCAD Civil 3D, as model-based software, continues to create new wrinkles that affect how we deal with old AutoCAD management stuff like Layers, Linetypes, Blocks and all the rest. If we try to ignore and treat these fundamental parts in the same old ways, we can make ourselves more work.
A Wrinkle in Time
Simply put – to create, edit, manage, and publish a model is not drawing…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 10, 2014
Tags NCS, Layer Standards, layers, View Features, Style Management, Style
When we talk about ripples are we talking about wave functions or particle behavior? This physical quandary led to our modern “quantum” perspective of the physical universe. That new relativity changed how we think about Everything. That changed What and How we do many things…even reading this blog post.
Certainly, the storm surges from storms like Sandy and her topical cousins will continue…
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Tench Tilghman
Mar 26, 2013
Tags View Features, Profile View, Section View, Cant View, Superelevation View, alignment, profile, section, standard keys
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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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 10, 2012
Tags annotation, annotative scale, Label Style, named views, Style
I appear to be on a Section Editor details kick for the last couple of posts.
Let’s kick it up a notch. Bam!What’s Cookin' in the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 SE?
The 2013 Section Editor got many tune ups and interface improvements. Things look almost like everything is the same as AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012. Mostly it is, but everything works together better. If you were a corridor…
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 28, 2012
Tags corridor, Section Editor, Section View, section, intersection
Last post we got quirky with the AutoCAD Civil 3D Section Editor. We talked about how Label Orientation Reference changed label display with the last major update to the Section Editor interface.
In Civil 3D 2012 and Civil 3D 2013 you’ll also note how Object Oriented labels perform some interesting rotational effects when you have more than one Assembly (multiple…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 23, 2012
Tags Section Editor, section, View Edit Sections, baseline, corridor, Section View, Section Label