Posted by Jason Hickey on 11th July 2008
Every day, I like to check in with the Autodesk discussion groups to see what people are having to say, what issues they’re running into, or what they love about Civil 3D. As I look lately, it seems as if there are a lot of people just now adopting Civil 3D, so I want to write a post that will help them as they grow in their Civil 3D knowledge.
Do you ever wish that you had a way to set default styles in the program? Do you wish that when you performed a task, that it would pick up on that nifty style that you created automatically instead of you having to pick it? Well, that can be done with command settings - find out how after the jump.
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Posted in 2007, 2008, 2009, Best Practices, General, Styles | 5 Comments »
Posted by Eric Chappell on 2nd July 2008
If you have been tuning in to these weekly posts then last week you would have taken the survey to determine whether your CAD standards are solid enough to proceed with a full-on Civil 3D implementation. If you scored low and have work to do…what’s next?
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Posted in Best Practices, Consulting, General, Styles, Templates, civil3d.com | 2 Comments »
Posted by Eric Chappell on 18th April 2008
Greetings from my new position at Engineered Efficiency! I’m glad the folks here have let me join the party and I hope you’ll find my posts to be up to par with the high quality of past EE posts.
On to the subject at hand…
As you probably know, the ability to assign elevations from a surface to a feature line has been in Civil 3D for some time. A big wish list item of mine has always been for that to be a dynamic relationship. In other words, once the feature line gets its elevations from a surface, it would be nice if it would update those elevations to match any changes to the surface. Well in Civil 3D 2009 ?!?!…..
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Posted in Best Practices, Grading, Surfaces, civil3d.com | 2 Comments »
Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 11th April 2008
There’s been a hot spot of discussion today regarding the use of hand drawn contours to fix an unsightly surface. Since the original post in the NG is being ignored, I think it’s worthwhile to open the discussion here. Read on and join in the debate.
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Posted in 2008, 2009, Autodesk, Best Practices, Consulting, Surfaces, Surveying | 31 Comments »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 25th March 2008
A few weeks ago I wrote a post called REGEN Rules that presented some ideas for datasharing and layout creation that would (hopefully) mitigate the torturous regen times that some of you are experiencing. Since then, I’ve had a little help understanding more about what is happening in the program. Special thanks to Lisa, one of the developers in Manchester, for helping me brainstorm some ideas and giving me a look behind the scenes.
Read on…
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Posted in 2007, 2008, 2009, Best Practices, Labels, Objects, Styles | 19 Comments »
Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 13th March 2008
Sing it like Elmer Fudd, it’s a much funnier headline. (YouTube, about 1:35 in.)
I know that I’ve told at least a few people that you couldn’t get rid of the DWF plotting by default in a Vault Check-in. Seems I was reading too fast, and not clearly enough. It happens, I scan a lot of things I read, it’s an embarrassing habit sometimes. Anyway, read past the jump to see the six-click solution.
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Posted in 2008, 2009, Best Practices, Vault | 2 Comments »
Posted by Matt Kolberg on 4th March 2008
A post in the discussion group today got me thinking about something I do and take for granted. He was complaining, rightfully so, about how slow corridors are in the object viewer. Read on to find out a way to improve your performance.
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Posted in 2008, Best Practices, Corridors, civil3d.com | 9 Comments »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 20th February 2008
I am here. You’ve missed me, eh? Well, I’ve put aside writing our two new books about the next release (an updated Mastering and a new title called Introducing), and my web training for just a few minutes to talk about something I’ve had on my mind for a long time.
The symptoms: Civil 3D had been working fine. You were modeling, building and shaping the land. Then BANG. Changing from one layout to another takes forever (such as 30 seconds or more). Regen times are slow. And plotting? Try sending a 20 sheet plan set to the plotter, go to the vending machine in the basement then back up to the 5th floor to chat up the receptionist for say, 3 hours (literally). Then your plot will appear. Or not.
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Posted in 2007, 2008, 2009, Best Practices, Labels, Objects, Styles | 25 Comments »
Posted by Jason Hickey on 29th January 2008
Have you ever had a point show up in your survey database and it wasn’t where you thought it should be? Perhaps upon further examination you find that the point was located twice in the field and the survey database is reporting the first location from the raw data file. Today, we’re going to look at two things - the “why” and the “how” - why does this happen, and “how” do I fix it?
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Posted in 2008, Best Practices, Points, Surveying | 3 Comments »
Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 21st January 2008
I know I’ve seen this before, but since a quick google turned up nothing, and I didn’t blog it here, I was clueless on the exact Registry path that holds the Project Template Directory. If your firm is working with Vault, and you want your project folder to look like it always has, you should check this out. You’ve got a folder setup that looks something like this:
And you need to make sure everyone uses it as they create new Vaulted projects. There’s a little help, after the jump.
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Posted in 2007, 2008, 2009, Best Practices, Consulting, Vault | 8 Comments »
