Mastering Civil 3D 2009
Introducing Civil 3D 2009
Posted by Jason Hickey on 17th April 2007
This one will be quick, I promise.  But I found out that only half of the back row of this classroom knew about it.  Yes, I’m sitting in the back of the room, in the cool kid’s club.
Want the quick way to do a 3D orbit in Civil 3D?  Hold down your shift button on the keyboard and press and hold your middle mouse button.  Move your mouse around and see the drawing orbit!
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Posted by Jason Hickey on 17th April 2007
So I’m sitting here in a classroom in Orlando listening to Peter Funk tell us some of the new functionality of AutoCAD - we Civil 3D users often love the new tools of Civil 3D, but neglect to find out about the basic stuff - AutoCAD enhancements! So as he was droning on (no, seriously, he’s fun to listen to…) I started playing around with something in Mtext. When doing so, I found something that’s been on my wish list for a long time. After the jump, you’ll find two things that excite me these days about Mtext.
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Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 17th April 2007
Not that I would ever suggest anyone try it, but I’m such a geek, I had to point this out. Peter Funk was kind enough a few weeks back to mention that C3D 2008 will not only not be supported, but will be blocked from installation on Vista 64. Well, given the interest, you had to figure something might happen. Jimmy Bergmark over at JTBWorld mentions a thread in the Adesk groups I’d never have noticed. Using Orca you can apparently hack the .msi to get it installed. I don’t even know if this would work on C3D, but if you’re really interested…
Do it, and you are so in unsupported land, and flying without a net. But a good hack is always worth mention.
Ed: Bryant Quinney of COINS has pulled it off. I haven’t seen the results, but he claims all is well. Still in serious unsupported territory, and if something goes south, you’re on your own.
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