Just about a year ago I wrote a post called Point Dreams in the Annotative View Space which dealt with some of the issues we all have with AutoCAD Civil 3D Point Features. There are lots of posts here about the Points beast for a host of reasons – mostly customer…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 18, 2012
Tags alignment, catchment, corridor, feature line, intersection, point, point group, point display, profile, pressure pipe, pipes, surface, wish
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.
How About Some Practical Production Tips
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Posted by
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
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
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