Archive for April 30th, 2007

Quick Drawing Change: Annotation Scale Button

Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 30th April 2007

This is a short, but very sweet new happy thing from Civil 3D 2008.  Nick Z. brought it to my attention at TechCamp a few weeks ago, and I have been waiting for him to blog it ever since.  Today, I bugged him and he said I could have it.  So here it is!

Changing drawing scale in Civil 3D 2006 and 2007 was a bit tedious because you had to go into the Settings tab, right click on drawing settings and open up the drawing settings dialog box, which for some reason, takes forever to open.  I usually advise people to set it once to something typical in their template and not mess with it much.

In 2008 this has become more fun.

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The Origins of Google Earth

Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 30th April 2007

Mark Aubin, Software Engineer for Google Earth writes a fascinating little piece this week in the Librarian Central newsletter describing the origins of GE, where they get their data from, and describes a bit of their process. Well worth the two minutes.

And you still haven’t bought your GE Pro license yet, have you? Dave Simeone confirmed it in last week’s webcast (with a some love to this little blog,) you’ll have to buy GE Pro if you want to be legit!

Posted in 2008, Add On Software, civil3d.com | No Comments »