Last post we talked about basic tracking tools like User accountability, Autodesk Design Review, and employment of the Feature Description fields in AutoCAD Civil 3D and how they apply to QA tracking. Here’s how to employ AutoCAD Civil 3D COGO Point Features for QA/QC and fix tracking.
This works well in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013+. In older releases…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 24, 2012
Tags QA, QC, points, Point Style, survey db, surface, track, survey, figures
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
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