A Million Click March

Thanks to all of you that have registered, commented, posted, clicked, blogged, shared, e-mailed, reblogged, tweeted, facebooked, and done all the other things you do with our blog. civil3d.com has grown from my occasional rambling to the leading Civil 3D related blog on the net, and we owe it to you.

With the current trend, we’ll be hitting the million-hit mark sometime in the next month or two. To celebrate, we’re going to reward the people that make this blog come alive: You. The day we clear a million hits, we’ll be looking at all the visitors that day, and drawing a name out of a hat to recieve the ultimate C3D learning and swag package. We’re starting with copies of Mastering and Introducing Civil 3D. We’ll throw in AOTC texts, and an AU bag to carry it all. We’ll be adding more to the prize bag over the next few weeks.

Oh, and each week, we’ll be pulling from the folks that comment on the blog, and send you something. AOTC, Adesk swag, whatever we grab from the prize closet. Thanks to all of you, and on with the Million Click March!

 

AU Civil 3D Tip

Couple of quick items today as we’re all recovering from the geeked out binge that is AU. Thanks again to all of you that attended my class, I’ll continue to keep posting the tips that weren’t in the handout; that was on purpose, it was the “Best of the Blogs,” not, “Best Tips in an AU Handout.” Read on for today’s tip. (more…)

 

Many ways to get to the same places

A colleague’s Civil 3D installation was pooched – some of the menu choices were simply not working. Some of these menu choices could have been show-stoppers but thanks to Autodesk’s insight, I could show them workarounds until I had time to fix the installation (which happened yesterday).

LABELS

By far, the easiest place to get many labels (not all of them, mind you) is from the General pulldown. When the dialog box comes up, you are given the choice of labeling Notes, Lines and Curves, Alignments, Parcels, Profile view, Section View, Surface and pipe Network. Whew! That’s alot of labels found in one place!

The Lines and Curves, Alignments, Parcels, Profile view, Section View, Surface and Pipes can be found in their respective pulldowns.

The holdouts in this are found in the Survey and Grading pulldowns and is the figure labeling. I’m not sure why Autodesk didn’t include these in the General section.

TABLES

The Survey,Line/Curve, Parcels, Grading and Alignment pulldowns offer the same table look and feel. You can enter in the same data – its just a matter of picking what type you want.

The Points, Surface, Sections and Pipes Tables are unique. I’m not sure why the General pulldown does not have a place for tables like it does for Labels – another wishlist item.

FEATURE LINES

These are placed in many of the pulldowns. These are broken down in many places to the task you want to do; elevations or geometry.

In the Survey pulldown, they are shown as Edit Figure Elevations and Edit figure Geometry.
In the Parcels pulldown, they are shown as Edit Parcel and Edit Parcel Elevations.
In the Grading pulldown, they are shown as Edit Feature Line Elevations and Edit Feature Line Geometry.

And of course, don’t forget about the all-inclusive Feature line icons.

Simplified locations even made easier!