There are a good number of things about AutoCAD Civil 3D Label Styles that may eclipse our previous notions about civil engineering and survey annotation. The path of totality in Civil 3D grants us all significant access to the data behind the many Features – That list of many things inside the Civil 3D Toolspace. These nuanced opportunities deliver to us the format…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 22, 2017
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Style Management, implementation, Civil 3D 2018, Text Component Editor, Text Overrides
One of the great things about AutoCAD Civil 3D is that there are lots of ways to get things done. One of the worst things about Civil 3D is that there are lots of ways to get things done. The power of the Civil 3D Data Behind, the Clout of Style, and this dichotomy is often exemplified by how (well) we employ annotative Label Style.
Substance and Style
Both…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 23, 2017
Tags iPOD, Label Style, Point Label Style, publish on demand, layers, Layer Standards, video
AutoCAD Civil 3D is stuffed like a platter of Football Playoff Day nachos with an overwhelming number of ways and tools to manipulate our civil engineering and survey data. I’ve said it before. In Civil 3D it pays to ask the question:
“What Do You Watch?
It’s All About that Data Behind.”Happy New Year! Get that mojo workin’. To get more from what we have we must think outside…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 03, 2017
Tags deliverables, point group, Point Label Style, annotation, implementation, video
For reasons unknown I got a recent rash of questions about Civil 3D Label behavior when you employ XREFs. You do know you can label Civil 3D features from XREFs, don’t you?
Autodesk hasn’t really updated this functionality lately.
Yes. There are some weird things about it that can trip up the unwary.Where is 0,0,0?
It seems reasonable to most folks that two drawings…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 03, 2016
Tags XREF, alignment, group labels, Label Style, video
July always reminds me of first steps, moonwalks, and moonlight minds. This makes spatial sense. This month we appear to be on sort of an Export points from AutoCAD Civil 3D bender.
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In each Export post I keep meaning to put in the following moonstep but always seem to simply run out of room. So with a savage terrier dog draped across my toes in a state of fan-cooled repose,…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 28, 2016
Tags Point Label Style, Description Key Set, Description Key, export, publish on demand