Let’s face it. Most of the time in Autodesk Civil 3D we all tend to initially shoot for some form of immediate and published annotation. It’s an old school CAD User’s habit. Can we call this lust the One and Done? For surveyors this may mean Point data from Survey Dbs. I trust we have all moved beyond imported point files and drawing-centric COGO points? The Lord…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 12, 2024
Tags annotation, annotative scale, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Style Management, Style Library, DREF, XREF, IREF, TREF
We continue to chisel away at the nuances of Civil 3D Label Style method and practice - The art of annotation in Autodesk Civil 3D matters to us all. Some of that pound and grind is similar to the removal of the sculptural whitepace from the original blocks of marble that became Michelangelo’s David or Madonna and Child. Do we need Label Style structural…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 01, 2020
Tags Label Style, Style, Style Management, annotation, annotative scale, iPOD, customization, implementation, Style Import
Our annotative work is mission critical to our performance and productivity in Autodesk Civil 3D. People do complain about the nuance and complexity of Civil 3D annotation. The work is on the mission critical path of the successful execution of the multiple deliverable sets of any civil engineering or survey project. Best we pay attention and acquire…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 12, 2020
Tags Label Style, Style, Style Management, XREF, DREF, annotation, annotative scale, video, iPOD, DWF, alignment
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