Archive for July 17th, 2007

Remember The Symbol Manager?

Posted by Jason Hickey on 17th July 2007

So who remembers the symbol manager in Land Desktop? I used it pretty much every day, and really miss the functionality. I figured a roundabout way to include those symbols into a tool palette last March, and wrote about it here. It’s one method, and definitely not the best one. James suggested at the time that I put all the symbols and make one tool palette with Design Center. I didn’t like that idea, since that put all my symbols on one palette. I’d pretty much forgotten about it until today. I was looking for something and ended up finding something that brought it all back to me - follow the link to find out a MUCH easier way to replicate the symbol manager from LDT.

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Civil 3D Fundamentals: Surface Boundary Options

Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 17th July 2007

I’m starting a new series of fundamental posts.  I think they will appear regularly on Mondays from now on, but today, you get it on Tuesday.

I am working with a fun group this week doing things like channels, lagoons, dams, spillways and more.  We were building our surface to get started this morning, and someone asked what the difference was between adding a boundary as “non-destructive breaklines” or not.

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