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
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
Folk complain that AutoCAD Civil 3D is not really user friendly about Site Design. The complaint is true if you insist that site design in Civil 3D should be like it was for years in Land Desktop. Unfortunately, about the only thing Civil 3D has in common with Land Desktop is it’s use of similar but historically deceptive Ribbon names such as Surface, Grading, Parcel, and Alignment.
You…
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Tench Tilghman
May 10, 2016
Tags grading, site design, corridors, standard keys, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, corridor surface, surface
Feature Line Baselines in Corridors are a big deal in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017. I also like the basic cleanups in corridors with angular horizontal control. It’s been a long wait for them. Technically, I wish Autodesk had implemented them differently and gone the extra mile. Here’s a brain bender. What’s the difference between a Feature…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 28, 2016
Tags grading, corridor, Civil 3D 2017, Code Set Styles, survey figure, alignment, feature line, standard keys