Pesky Point Tables and How to Beat Them Into Submission
Posted by Jason Hickey on 5th September 2007
Tonight’s post comes to you courtesy of Texas Pete, also known as James Sherman of CDG Engineers & Associates. I’ve spent this week enjoying the company of the Civil 3D side of CDG, giving some update training on Civil 3D 2008 and some advanced training with them - I was almost sure that they would hate me after today’s corridor exercise, but they persevered and made their way through a fairly difficult exercise. I’m proud of them…
In our discussions yesterday, the question of point tables came up. More specifically, a custom point table for site benchmarks. We were able to get one heckuva nice table created, but there was one component that we couldn’t get rid of - the pesky point number. I emailed the civil3d.com team and copied Nick Zeeben, and the reply was “I don’t think you can get rid of that pesky point number.” At approximately the same time that I popped that email up on the big screen, Texas Pete announced that he thought he had it beat. I tested it, verified the solution, and promised him that I’d report it here and give him due credit for one heckuva workaround. Follow the link to find out how he accomplished this.
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