Speech Recognition – yeah right!

On November 26, 2008, in civil3d.com, by Rick Graham

I was showing some of the engineers and designers the built-in capability that Vista has with speech recognition. It does work pretty slick.
One of the designers asked why can’t we have that in Civil3D?

I thought about it for a bit and started laughing out loud – I explained that it is easier typing in the command than saying some of them! :)

For example:
Convertlineworktomaskblock
AeccAddLinkAtStation
BAuthorPalletteClose

I just thought it was funny. But who knows whats in the minds of the AD/C3D programmers for release 2020! :)

 
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Selective Design Criteria

On November 26, 2008, in 2009, Profiles, by John Evans

image There are a lot of projects in the commercial and residential arena that just don’t meet a criteria for passing.  We still need to evaluate various other factors, but passing is not an option. Essentially a selective criteria.

Besides, everyone knows us country folks down here just pave windy old game trails so we can go real slow and enjoy the scenery. We aint got no use for passin’ nobody anyhow. Waffle House is open 24/7, what’s the rush.

The problem I ran into is that while trying to meet some other criteria, was that the warnings for passing sight visibility just won’t let me be.  Ignoring warnings is always a bad solution.  Eventually you ignore something that was a valid concern.

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