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
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
Lots of Survey and civil engineering design firms love our InstantOn Basic and Jump Kit products because they reduce for them lots of the upfront work it takes to get AutoCAD Civil 3D producing real work in many releases. The Survey functionality inside C3D and IOB has vastly improved in the last couple of releases. The “I like IOB” by Survey folks always leads to questions…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 18, 2012
Tags track, points, figures, survey, survey db, QA, QC, implementation, Project Management
I hope you’ve enjoyed my man in the straw hat posts. Ain’t history a little fun? We’ll get back to that tale of western tales real soon now.
This spring Autodesk finally put Land Desktop to rest forever - from their perspective anyway. Some folks must stumble and stagger into AutoCAD Civil 3D. I suggest they buy an InstantOn since it solves most of the upgrade problems…
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