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
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