Points are not the Simple Stupid things they were in Land Desktop or other old AutoCAD based CAD apps. They have evolved and morphed to much More capable Features inside AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012.
Unnerving My Point Is
Unquestionably…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 25, 2011
Tags point, Description Key Set, Description Key, point display, point group, survey point
As a follow up to my previous post on Point Symbols, their management, custom Civil 3D templates, and Point Styles, I thought I ought to warn you of a AutoCAD Civil 3D Point performance gotcha. The method I pointed and highlighted in the post requires…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 18, 2011
Tags point, bugs, point selection, point display, performance, customization, survey, survey db
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
In Hyannis, MA at the annual at the Massachusetts Association of Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers (MALSCE) Annual Convention late last month The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MASSDOT) announced the department will require future project submissions in AutoCAD Civil 3D beginning Jan 2012.
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Let's just suppose you have to debug a nasty little points file or fieldbook file in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012. You're a wiz now and fire up your Survey Db and do to town.
Survey Data Cleanup in 2012
The file(s) includes a bunch of figures that you have figure prefixes in your figure prefix database. The odds are absolute that the field crew didn't do a perfect job with either the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 13, 2011
Tags survey, survey db, survey landxml