Seems to me there’s always one more important thing you forget to mention whenever you talk about anything in AutoCivil 3D. Survey Figure generation is no exception. In my last post I brought up the ongoing big ones that seem to puzzle and perplex many surveyed users.…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 15, 2012
Tags survey, survey db, survey figure, survey point, 2012, 2013, COGO, COGO points, point, point display, point group
In a post last week I tossed out a basic primer on AutoCAD Civil 3D Figure editing. By the way,
“Thanks for the encouraging emails and comments I’ve received. I’m glad the post helped some folks out.”
Here’s a few other Figure Feature related “issues” that…
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An InstantOn Basic customer asked me to clarify and summarize the basics of Figure editing in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 and 2013. Makes sense to me.
Where the Heck is the Figure?
The first user head space issue to resolve is,
“Where are the real figures?
Are they in my drawing?
Or are they in the current Survey Db?”I think…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 30, 2012
Tags Survey Figure Editor, figure edit, figures, 2012, 2013, 2011, survey db, survey
In the last couple of posts we chatted about employing AutoCAD Civil 3D COGO Point Features as quality assurance and quality control devices. In the last post we talked about the basic setups of Features, Style, and Sets required to make Tracking By Point work.
How About Some Practical Production Tips
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 27, 2012
Tags Description Key, Description Key Set, figure, points, point group, QA, QC, QAQC, surface, track, profile, Quick Profile, survey db
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