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?
Posted in Best Practices, Consulting, General, Styles, Templates, civil3d.com | No Comments »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 26th June 2008
I’ve been teaching a lot of our unlimited instructor-led training sessions lately, and we always try to integrate the EEProPack with each class. (Both unlimited training and the EEProPack are part of our CivilAccess package.)
If you have ever had to drag styles from one drawing to another, you know that it works, but man it takes a lot of time (and some fine motor mouse skills!) You can import a whole drawing’s worth of styles using some insert block tricks, but then you sometimes wind up with a messy drawing with extra junk left behind. Not to mention that neither of these methods will bring over your command settings, so you are hopelessly relegated to checking every command to make sure that pesky “standard” style doesn’t come in by default.
With the EEProPack, you import Civil 3D styles, command settings or object layers. You can even import all of the styles and settings from a Civil 3D template in one shot.
For this example, I’ll show you how to use the EEProPack to import just a handful of styles into your current drawing.
Read more after the jump. To request a free trial of the EEProPack, click here.
Posted in EE ProPack, Engineered Efficiency, Styles | No Comments »
Posted by Jason Hickey on 20th June 2008
As I was thinking about a subject to write about today, I was engaged in a discussion an Autodesker (who shall remain nameless) and he pointed out something that he wasn’t aware of in Civil 3D, and I can understand why - it’s kind of a hidden setting. So if someone very familiar with the program was unaware of it, he figured (as did I) that some of you might not be familiar with it either. It’s all about point styles.
Ever drag a point label away from a point marker and got really irritated because the arrow head didn’t EXACTLY touch the point? Follow the link to find out how to fix this pesky problem.
Posted in 2008, 2009, Points, Styles | 5 Comments »
Posted by Matthew Anderson, P.E. on 4th June 2008
Kudos to James Wedding for his All Signs Positive post, and Christopher Fugitts’ Discussion Group comments yesterday, I think I figured out how to get my volume surface labels to have the colored tick marks.
Posted in 2008, 2009, Labels, Styles, Surfaces | 1 Comment »
Posted by James Wedding, P.E. on 24th May 2008
The Magic Eight-ball sometimes delivers on your wishes. It’s not often that we give up free styles, but since this is one of my favorite hacks, and will probably be part of my AU class, here’s one for Sue. The point label style in the attached dwg file will label positive’s but not negatives with a sign. Follow the jump to see how.
Posted in 2008, 2009, CivilAccess, Downloads, Labels, Points, Styles, civil3d.com | 2 Comments »
Posted by Matthew Anderson, P.E. on 23rd May 2008
Here’s an update to a post I had a few weeks back. I now have 2009 loaded and setup on our network for rollout to the troops. The only thing left was to cleanup some minor outstanding issues with the template - stuff that was bugging me, fixing the leading zero issues (easy fix), and tweak a few styles…
Posted in 2009, Labels, Styles, Surfaces | 3 Comments »
Posted by Matthew Anderson, P.E. on 16th April 2008
There are some really cool tools to label surface labels. Nearly every government entity that I have to submit too asks for slope calculations for driveways, sidewalks etc. I hate having to find my excel spreadsheet and pulling the design data off the plans with my scale (where did I put that?) or laying awake at night questioning if I updated or sent my calculation sheets to the review agency…
Jump with me to see a couple of tips…
Posted in 2008, Labels, Styles, Surfaces, civil3d.com | 3 Comments »
Posted by Matthew Anderson, P.E. on 31st March 2008
This is one of my favorite parts of the 2009 release. 2009 allows labeling of objects that are in external reference drawings. The ability to label both parcel segments and parcel area labels is sweet. It takes a little getting use too…
Posted in 2009, Labels, Parcels | 14 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…
Posted in 2007, 2008, 2009, Best Practices, Labels, Objects, Styles | 19 Comments »
Posted by Matthew Anderson, P.E. on 18th March 2008
No, I am not going to talk about Civil 3d object styles or James’ House of Styles. I want to ask about the other styles - the base AutoCAD style - Named Plot Styles. How many people are remaining in a pen-color-based (CTB) AutoCAD world?
Posted in Styles, Templates | 33 Comments »
