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Civil 3D User Interface Essentials
Civil 3D User Interface Essentials
1/17/2019
A quick walk-through video about the User Interface Essentials of Civil 3D. The video is from the
Autodesk Infrastructure YouTube Channel
Create a Surface from Selected Objects
Create a Surface from Selected Objects
1/11/2019
Jeff Bartels of Autodesk explains how to recreate and employ a legacy surface from AutoCAD 3D objects.
From the Jeff Bartels YouTube Channel.
and the Civil Immersion blog.
Comments
A great review of surface building tools and the important concepts and workflows required to get it done.
Me? I'd probably WBLOCK out from the initial drawing the raw AutoCAD primitives I need for the DTM surface model into a new drawing.
Most of the time we're not so lucky to get a TIN models as 3D lines supplied to us. We may be required to employ primitives collected in multiple selection sets.
Removing the ACAD primitives from the surfaces from the resultant Surface Data References is more important for maintenance and stability reasons than you may think. Do the do.
Storing your Data Reference drawings in drawings with your Style collections in them makes upgrading those sources more problematic. Use NoStyles templates and drawings.
Add Degrees Minutes and Seconds Symbols to a Civil 3D Report
Add Degrees Minutes and Seconds Symbols to a Civil 3D Report
12/11/2018
Jason Porter of Applied Software walks through how to add Degrees Minutes and Seconds symbols to Metes and Bounds Reports.
From the Jason Porter's YouTube Channel.
See the Applied Software blog.
Comments
Remember to keep a copy of any edited xsl reports somewhere separate from your Civil 3D install location.
If you have other users, you will also need to get them pushed around.
Jason's issue with the double quote character in the video are because a double quote character is a reserved character in xsl. They must be escaped to be read literally. His work around works.
Special CAD Character Codes in Unicode like the ones employed in the video are important for more reasons than you want to know.
Read the Our Special Friends have Character post. It is an golden oldie. It contains a table of useful codes too.