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.
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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
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
In the previous post we talked about some basic issues with Corridor annotation if we rely on Surface Features to generate the annotation. I even proposed a new Surface Group Label that referenced all forms of horizontal control.
In early AutoCAD…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 13, 2012
Tags Code Set Styles, codes, corridor, corridor surface, surface, annotation, points, Point Label Style
Point Groups coupled with Description Key Sets provide us with a powerful environment to manage, display and annotate COGO point data in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
Remember - YOU Rule the Points
Prior to AU 2011 I wrote a post…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Mar 20, 2012