We know everything about the mechanics of Surface creation in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Don’t we?
Civil 3D works. Toss in the Points. Pump in the Breaklines. Manufacture a Boundary. Create the Data Shortcut and we’re good to go. You know. It’s the same old Cha Cha Cha.
“Bob? Did you just make us more work?”
A customer asked if I had an end to end walk-through…
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Autodesk first introduced Survey Queries in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013. They improved them some in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 by adding export and import functionality. These days you can employ standardized Survey Queries shared among multiple Survey Dbs.
Me, I’m admittedly a long-time Data Geek. Because I am that I’ve become a CAD, BIM, and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 24, 2014
Tags query, survey, survey figure, survey point, video
Do we get to the nuts and bolts of a numeric conversion of InstantOn Survey for AutoCAD Civil 3D after a couple asides that focused on some Process Linework nuances? Come on. This is Civil 3D. There is always more to…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Jan 07, 2014
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