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
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
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
We're hard at work wrapping up the packaging for a new Jump 4 InstantOn Survey product. A bunch of people asked for it.
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They think a huge set of preconfigured Description Keys, a Description Key Set collection, with linked Point Styles (based on known National Standards), the matching Figure Prefixes, Figure Styles, etc might be of use to a few organizations.…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 09, 2011
Tags Description Key, Description Key Set, figure prefix db, not keys, survey point, COGO points, survey