Suppose you want to label flow lines in your roadway plan, ditch center-line elevations, or the top or bottom of a bank. Conceptually, suppose you want to evaluate grades across an existing site to figure out how to terrace the latest parking lot surface beast. The simple answer: Create an Alignment; Apply a Label Set; Grab the labels; Point the Label References built into a Civil…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 14, 2018
Tags alignment, group labels, reference labels, annotation, corridor, surface, Label Style, profile, offset profile
What does a Code Set Style do in Civil 3D?
I tend to answer that well-built Code Set Styles work for you or a bad Code Set Style drives you completely bonkers. Most Civil 3D users can probably say amen to that. We can all probably attest that the many purposes of Code Set Style in Civil 3D sneaks up on you.Maybe this image works for you - Think of the Code Set Style…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Aug 02, 2018
Tags Code Set Styles, Assembly, subassembly composer, Subassembly, corridor, Style
One great advantage of Style-based software is the simultaneous increased consistency and flexibility that Style brings to the table. These days given the will and the skill you can make a Civil 3D Style, Civil 3D Label Style, or Civil 3D Label Set do almost anything a user could think of with the Civil 3D data behind.
The downside to this abstraction of a complex set…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 26, 2018
Tags Jump Kit, Style Management, Style Import, video, implementation, customization, training
Customers do often ask about the Symbols supplied with the Framework for Civil 3D. We call this collection of resources and tools a Symbol Set. Just like those familiar Sets in Civil 3D a Framework Symbol Set is a collected and managed system. This practically means that a Symbol Set collection is more than the sum of its parts.
As…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 19, 2018
Tags symbol, Symbol Set, Point Style, spreadsheet, Blocks Only, block, Tool Palettes, Speadsheet Tools, Civil 3D 2019, video
There is no doubt that the increased complexity of Civil 3D Point Display Resolution has been a good news and bad news problem since the initial release. In a tongue and cheek fashion I like to tell people that Autodesk lied to us from the get go. They named things in the Civil 3D Ribbons to make us believe the objects we are dealing with are something like the old school CAD objects…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 30, 2018
Tags point, point display, point group, Description Key Set, customization, Point Style, Point Label Style