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
Some of our Jump customers have requested More in-depth support for additional NCS compliant utlities and other common roadway and site features. This isn't rocket science, but reducing the tedium, cleanup, and CAD Standards issues for AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD is what we do. We mean it when we say The Jump is...
"A Higher Standard to Build On"
More of What You Need
Our recently…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 27, 2011
Tags block, symbol, Symbol Set, Blocks Only, points, Description Key Set
Earlier this week I wrote a post on the concept of employing NOT Keys in Description Key matches. Hopefully, you'll spend a few minutes scratching you head and consider how NOT Keys might help you and your organization. Someone asked for a bit More clarity...
A Simple NOT Key Structure for Manholes
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 12, 2011
Tags Description Key, points, point group, not keys, query, survey, survey db, survey figure, survey point
We're hard at work wrapping up the packaging for a new Jump 4 InstantOn Survey product. A bunch of people asked for it.
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They think a huge set of preconfigured Description Keys, a Description Key Set collection, with linked Point Styles (based on known National Standards), the matching Figure Prefixes, Figure Styles, etc might be of use to a few organizations.…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 09, 2011
Tags Description Key, Description Key Set, figure prefix db, not keys, survey point, COGO points, survey
I won't claim credit for creating the great term "civil lobotomy". It was tweeted to me by a new follower (thanks John) in response to my Dumb it Down to CAD post. Isn't the growth of social networking and our human language good at providing new ways to talk about poignant topics?
Point Feature Mystery or is that a… Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 21, 2011
Tags point display, point group, Description Key Set, Point Label Style, Point Style