Are Points are one of those “I love to hate them” beasties in AutoCAD Civil 3D? I say it often and loudly that the performance of Civil 3D COGO points sucks. Best to employ them thoughtfully. On the other hand, Civil 3D Survey points can rock your socks off. There are a whole bunch of videos that show that here.
Does it appear in Civil…
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 29, 2017
Tags points, survey point, training, CAD Standards, Description Key Set, point group, Point Label Style
Sooner or later one of the infamous Autodesk Bartels Boys is sure to do a brief how to video on the AutoCAD Civil 3D Export command. Visit their site. There’s no harm in continuing education and the Export command should not be missed. Aren’t there more than one of them? Export commands…
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Tench Tilghman
Jul 27, 2017
Tags export, publish, publish on demand, iPOD, BIM, CAD Standards
I mumbled Export from Civil 3D things for civil engineers and surveyors; waved my hands about DWF; and then sent the folks off to go paint the fence and wash the dishes. As with many useful skills in life:
Doing Offers the Eyes to See
It DOES.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 13, 2017
Tags export, layers, block, symbol, DGN, Layer Standards, Symbol Set
Most of us Civil 3D users live mnemonics. Simple groups of letters can and do save us Civil 3D users time and effort. Human beings certainly easily attach meaning to such things. As most parents and grandparents learn many a three-year old knows the McDonald’s logo. LOL. Few toddlers can read.
Brand and symbol mnemonics act like command aliases in an AutoCAD pgp file. They become the roots…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 11, 2017
Tags dwf, iPOD, standards, implementation, Project Management, video
People say that Civil 3D is too complicated. I say, “Baloney.” The scientific exploratory facts and conjectures in the post that follows confirm this. We must boldly go where no one has gone before.
People say water is simple. The physicist says,
“Not So Fast”
Late last year the popular press picked up and announced the discovery of a fourth…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 05, 2017
Tags WATT, Style, Style Management, layer state, Layer Standards