Archive for April 4th, 2007

New for 2008: Move Blocks to Surface and more

Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 4th April 2007

Do you ever dream of planting 3D trees and houses on your site? 

How about if you import some blocks that have a Z value buried in their attributes somewhere?  Wouldn’t it be nice to extract that information and use it for surface building?

A word about my screen captures: It appears that I have somehow mistakenly installed the British version of 2008.  Everything I point out appears in the same location in the North American Version, it just might have a slightly different nomenclature.  We at Civil 3D.com try to speak all languages and assist the world.  Just doin’ my part for world Civil 3D unity.

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Posted in 2008, Surfaces | 2 Comments »

Editing Survey Database Points with Joshua

Posted by Mark Scacco, P.E. on 4th April 2007

OK, first things first.  Don’t do this.

Or at least don’t do this unless you really need to and know what you’re doing.  And if you decide to proceed, you are so on your own its not funny.

Ed: He’s not kidding. It’s not easy to convey the “Are you kidding me?” look in an e-mail, but Manchester managed to do it when Mark proposed this. JW Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in 2007, Points, Surveying, civil3d.com | 7 Comments »