In the previous post we talked about how the related civil engineering disciplines “see” parcels and their data differently - so much for getting a nice brown-paper wrapper and a string on the parcel. Much like junk mail these differences of expectation will continue to show up. These show up in the AutoCAD Civil 3D interface and its functional tools.
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Keep the tool-using thoughts I mentioned…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 14, 2013
Tags alignment, feature line, parcel segment, parcel, grading group
I chatted about the Survey Figure Editor in a few posts earlier last month. It’s probably time to talk about its kissin’ cousin – the COGO Editor. How are these tools related? Let’s see.
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 05, 2012
Tags COGO Editor, COGO, Survey Figure Editor, alignment, parcel, figure, figure edit
Just about a year ago I wrote a post called Point Dreams in the Annotative View Space which dealt with some of the issues we all have with AutoCAD Civil 3D Point Features. There are lots of posts here about the Points beast for a host of reasons – mostly customer…
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Tench Tilghman
Oct 18, 2012
Tags alignment, catchment, corridor, feature line, intersection, point, point group, point display, profile, pressure pipe, pipes, surface, wish
Software hopefully grows more intuitive. AutoCAD Civil 3D’s interface is better at it than the not so model-based software of the past. Features must behave in a more consistent and predictable way by definition. However “intuitive” means different things to different people. A change of context can be befuddling to the best of us.
We Don't Know When to Look for Directions
I ran…
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 02, 2012
Tags alignment, alignment direction, vector, horizontal control, vertical control, tangents, free curve
I often get variations of questions surrounding Best Fit Alignments and Best Fit Profiles. Both are really useful AutoCAD Civil 3D commands particularly when you have gathered Survey data and must supply something that delivers and documents the real world. One of my favorite questions:
How am I supposed to create a Best Fit Profile?
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The command…
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Tench Tilghman
Jul 17, 2012
Tags alignment, profile, best fit, Profile View, survey, survey figure, figure