...Verification Report Profile Vertical Curve Report Profile PVI Report Project Project Summary Report Survey Metes and Bounds and Report Survey Figure Node and Point Report Figures Report Survey Points...

...you don’t typically produce project work that way. Civil 3D isn’t the only civil engineering and survey game in town. Autodesk’s touted free Educational versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D also make learning...

...our Better Deliverables for Plan and Profile production training videos for AutoCAD Civil 3D. From Survey Code to Survey Db to Description Key Sets to representations in publication drawings requires...

...site. But as he pointed out, these tend to focus on newer AutoCAD Civil 3D features or tools like Survey Queries and Figure Edits and perhaps make it easy to miss the forest in the tress. Ok. Back to...

...It simply makes more sense, don’ ja know. If you’re going to deliver to working civil engineers, surveyors, and government agencies the deepest set of resources for AutoCAD Civil 3D on the planet, you’d...

...Groups Point Groups can be Drag and Dropped into drawings Work in a simplified template and a shared Survey Db Do the Task and then Continuously Improve the Point Group definitions Always a No Show group… or two Point Label Style Control By Point Group Standardized Labels by Point Group WCS or View based Point Label Styles Point Label Style – By Layer assignment Membership by a list of Point Numbers AND Format from Description Key(s) Delay and Decrease Manual Label Overrides Label Content is a Survey Point Property Rotations are a Point Property Override Dragged State – a single look and feel improves readability and QA Rotation and Drag Mechanics Civil 3D Published Separate Label and Symbol Drawings Nothing but Labels or Symbols Employ Point Styles with BLOCK references if you want Markers OR Use Point Label Styles with block-based Marker components that do that Annotative Scale determined by the View Frame Group Point Properties and Survey Properties Rotations and Point Label Style Overrides Label Contents are a Survey Point Property Maximum width is a Label Style Property found in the Summary for the text component View Matters for Edits Build Named Views from View Frames or Alignments with DVIEW | Twist OR Build a throw away Sheet Set and create the Views from the Layouts in Sheets Query Logic for Point Groups Point Group Priority Matters Drag and Drop Point Groups Backwards (last to first) Basic Point Group Logic Can Include other Point Groups – No support for Exclude Do the Includes (OR) and Then the Excludes (AND) An Edited Query ignores the contents of Tabs unless you go back Clean Logic from Twisted Construction Include the Offset Point Group Exclude the Descriptions list Manually Modify the Query to Include the Excludes

...Model-Based software, and Model-Based design. What do these words really mean to civil engineers and surveyors? Where does the rubber hit the road? Maybe the answer is simple. Maybe not. It sure appears...

...Listed Here These resources are available with InstantOn and Jump Kit Framework products. The Roadway Survey Db from the InstantOn Project dataset is employed in examples This video demonstrates the basic Label considerations and details for Alignment based Point Groups Topics Covered: Managed Alignment Point Groups To Alignment based Point Group Paste the comma separated list Positive and Negative or Left and Right Test the Point List Even More Point Groups Add the Point Group + Excluded Others Edit the Logic Test in the Point List Repeat as Needed Adjust Point Group Priorities Production - Plan and Goals A Reusable Stack of Point Groups Point Groups can be Drag and Dropped into drawings Work in a simplified template and a shared Survey Db Do the Task and then Continuously Improve the Point Group definitions Always a No Show group… or two Point Label Style Control By Point Group Standardized Labels by Point Group WCS or View based Point Label Styles Point Label Style – By Layer assignment Membership by a list of Point Numbers AND Format from Description Key(s) Delay and Decrease Manual Label Overrides Label Content is a Survey Point Property Rotations are a Point Property Override Dragged State – a single look and feel improves readability and QA

...They say everyone wants an AutoCAD Civil 3D built their way. Mostly, I believe civil engineers and surveyors really need their expensive Autodesk code to work and produce work that is acceptable to them...

...appears to be all too often the normal situation when many talk about Autodesk’s civil engineering and survey software. The problem is more fundamental than we think. Autodesk made a mistake with their...