Points are not the Simple Stupid things they were in Land Desktop or other old AutoCAD based CAD apps. They have evolved and morphed to much More capable Features inside AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012.
Unnerving My Point Is
Unquestionably…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 25, 2011
Tags point, Description Key Set, Description Key, point display, point group, survey point
As a follow up to my previous post on Point Symbols, their management, custom Civil 3D templates, and Point Styles, I thought I ought to warn you of a AutoCAD Civil 3D Point performance gotcha. The method I pointed and highlighted in the post requires…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 18, 2011
Tags point, bugs, point selection, point display, performance, customization, survey, survey db
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
MH[~ E, D, S, T]
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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