Most civil engineering and survey firms employ a simple form of codes in the Format column of their Description Keys. There’s no problem with that, but you may be missing some very useful functionality built into AutoCAD Civil 3D’s Description Keys Sets and annotative Label Style power tools.
Inside Civil 3D there is the simple and then there is the simply…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 19, 2017
Tags not keys, points, figure, figure prefix db, standard keys, Description Key Set, Description Key, codes, survey db, video
We talked Civil 3D gone wild recently. We explored our ability to improve our daily productivity by the use of repetitive patterns and the logical NOT tool in our Survey Codes, Description Keys, and Point Group definitions in the post NOT Keys in Civil 3D.
The practical realities of Not Key patterns…
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Tench Tilghman
Oct 05, 2017
Tags not keys, points, figure, figure prefix db, standard keys, Description Key Set, Description Key, codes
We examined in detail how we can take advantage of Civil 3D’s arcane methods of interpreting and resolving point data in a multiple post series on point display resolutions in AutoCAD Civil 3D. The topic of NOT Keys kept coming up. A couple of folks asked the basic question,
“What is a NOT Key?”
It might be a better question…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 28, 2017
Tags search, sort, not keys, Description Key, Description Key Set, wildcard
We wrapped up a previous post about the interpreted nature of point data in AutoCAD Civil 3D and the Civil 3D Point Display Priority Strategy with an argument that the Pareto principal, the famous 80 20 Rule, applies to our civil engineering…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 26, 2017
Tags point, survey point, Description Key, figure prefix db, not keys, wildcard, CAD Standards
Shall we continue to explore the interpreted nature of point data in AutoCAD Civil 3D? In the last post we talked about the Point Display Override Strategy. That’s where many civil engineers and surveyors end up after initially struggling with AutoCAD Civil 3D point display issues for a bit.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 12, 2017
Tags point display, point group, Description Key Set, Description Key, implementation, Style Management, video