The next InstantOn Basic 4 and Jump Kit 4 AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 contain some necessary Code Set Style and more integrated Description Key Set stuff that should have been there all along.
We consider ourselves to be the Civil 3D user pit crew. Insufferable mechanics we’re always messing with the Civil 3D machine and trying to get the most out of the parts we’re supplied…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 10, 2012
Tags corridor, Code Set Styles, codes, corridor surface, surface, label
Last post we got quirky with the AutoCAD Civil 3D Section Editor. We talked about how Label Orientation Reference changed label display with the last major update to the Section Editor interface.
In Civil 3D 2012 and Civil 3D 2013 you’ll also note how Object Oriented labels perform some interesting rotational effects when you have more than one Assembly (multiple…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 23, 2012
Tags Section Editor, section, View Edit Sections, baseline, corridor, Section View, Section Label
This is one of those AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 and 2013 subtle changes behind the scene things I’ve meant to post about for quite a while. I just keep forgetting to do it. Dooh! Maybe I hope it will go away.
Section Editor Quirk
If you do a lot of corridor section editing maybe you already caught this one, but maybe not. Certainly if you use InstantOn Basic from…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 21, 2012
Tags section, View Edit Sections, Section View, Section Label, Section Editor
Our Jump Customers often ask really good questions about tweaking the thousands of Civil 3D Styles we offer.
"Is there a way that you can make the curve label style not show all the 0’s ahead of the degree for the delta of the curve?
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For example, if the delta is 8° 23’ 34”, then it is displaying as 008° 23’ 34”.
My preference would be to not show all the 0’s before the…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 23, 2012
Tags label, Label Style, Text Component Editor, Style, Style Management, line label, curve label
For reasons that I trust are pretty obvious to all by now, I routinely get lots of questions about AutoCAD Civil 3D Point Styles and their "strange" behaviors.
The Choices of Confusion
Inside Civil 3D we…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 13, 2011
Tags point display, survey point, COGO points, point group, Point Label Style, Point Style