In our previous post on Point Display in Civil 3D we talked about the fundamental interpreted nature of point data in Civil 3D. We discovered it can and usually does take a while for the practical realities of the deeper forms of point display resolution and management to sink in.
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Civil 3D delivers the means to accomplish sophisticated point display resolutions.…
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Tench Tilghman
Sep 07, 2017
Tags point, point group, point display, Description Key, Description Key Set, codes, standard keys, video
One of the Autodesk memes about AutoCAD Civil 3D is there are always a bunch of ways to get anything done. Variety is the spice of life. AutoCAD Civil 3D Point display is no exception. These varied methods to get to Point display resolutions are powerful. They can be overwhelming. That point may cause us disquiet or dismay. We can keep things the same and make ourselves more work or change our way…
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Tench Tilghman
Sep 05, 2017
Tags point, point display, point group, Description Key, Description Key Set, survey db
You employ the Civil 3D Import Points tool all the time. This can be a good thing employed properly or something very scary. It could be a flashback to 1984 or Animal Farm and be horribly Orwellian. You may recall that “All pigs are created equal”.…
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Tench Tilghman
Mar 22, 2016
Tags survey, survey db, survey figure, point, point display, setup, settings
We’ve been hard at work at continuously improving our annotative productivity in AutoCAD Civil 3D. If you missed the groundbreaking Alignment Based Point Groups post and the Better Deliverables in Civil 3D training videos, you could fix that. Intelligent…
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Tench Tilghman
Mar 01, 2016
Tags point group, points, point display, management, video
This merry month I performed a rash of training and support for AutoCAD Civil 3D Survey and Surface creation. A recurring theme seems to be
“I know how to do this, but Civil 3D doesn’t do what I expect it to do.”
This wouldn’t be all that weird if the users were new to Civil 3D. We all know by now that AutoCAD Civil 3D isn’t your daddy’s CAD software.
In most cases…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 30, 2014
Tags surface, survey, survey db, figure, point, point display