Archive for November 13th, 2006

No Sampling for You! Locked Layers and Alignments

Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 13th November 2006

While working on a sanitary piping project, we’ve been locking our alignment layer to prevent accidental slips.  However, today we ran into this problem:  Sampling a new alignment returned a dud profile view. 

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Carlson Civil Suite Part 3 - Creating a New Drawing and Importing Points

Posted by Jason Hickey on 13th November 2006

Well, folks, I promised a comprehensive review and comparison of Carlson Civil Suite 2007, and I still intend on honoring that promise.   Things have been a bit hectic lately, and I happen to have a few short hours before I take off for my next adventure (Hattiesburg, Mississippi for the rest of the week, if anyone is keeping score…)    Today, I’m going to go over the process of creating a new drawing in Carlson and importing points into that drawing.   As with the rest of this discussion, there are things that I like and things that I dislike.    So, with that being said, on with the show!

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Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 13th November 2006

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Shopping for Menus: Adding the Draw (and other AutoCAD Menus) to your Civil 3D Workspace

Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 13th November 2006

The CUI and Workspaces were new with AutoCAD 2006 (and therefore Civil 3D 2006, Land Desktop 2006, etc.), so many of us are already extemely familiar with them.

However, for those out there who are just getting started with Civil 3D 2007, it is often intimidating to figure out how to add menus to your workspace.

Common requests are: How do I get the DRAW menu?  Or the TOOLS menu?

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