Certainly our Civil 3D civil engineering and survey projects share a common survey and design language: Keys (Point Keys), Codes (Figure Prefix Names), and therefore typical Survey Query logic.
The Civil 3D Survey Upside Down
We covered some of those Stranger Things last time in Civil 3D Survey Query Essentials post…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 15, 2016
Tags survey, query, names, naming conventions, implementation
There are uncomfortable and unexpected truths squirrelled away in the simplest tasks in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Our CAD to model-based transition means some basic tasks are fundamentally different and seemingly more complex for no apparent reason. Yet a planned complexity can provide us with more bang for the buck and less work in the end. As I pointed out in a previous…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 09, 2016
Tags Label Style, label, line label, curve label, annotation, names
Civil 3D Styles and Label Styles employ (reference) the AutoCAD named parts to express themselves. Civil 3D Style tools just look for and match the right names that we’ve agreed to. Change the meaning of the property definitions connected to those agreed names and you can change anything.
In formal terms employing the practice of Style management…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 28, 2016
Tags implementation, training, bucket, Name Template, dynamic model, names, Style Management