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Archive for October 27th, 2006

Description Keys vs. Point Groups For Point Management

Posted by Jason Hickey on 27th October 2006

There have been many discussions about whether a user would want to manage points via description keys or by the new functionality with point groups in Civil 3D. There are reasons for both, but I’m thinking that through much research (and discussion with others, most importantly Anthony Governanti) I’ve finally got a best-practices of sort down in my head. Believe it or not, it utilizes a combination from both mindsets to work.

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So…Did it Work?

Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 27th October 2006

Since we have to shut Vault down to back it up and script the backup process at the command line, (don’t get me started on how dumb this is,) it’s usually done late at night. But I don’t want to sit there at 2 AM waiting for Vault to complete it’s cycle and read the log. Now I don’t have to! Read the rest of this entry »

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