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 James Wedding, P.E. on 11th March 2008
Sometimes it’s the little things. Notice this little surprise waiting for me when creating a Parcel from Objects in 
2009 earlier today. Under the label options, you can now use the generic line and curve labels for line and arc segments. This applies to alignments and other items as well. Just a nice little bonus to make your style creation and maintenance a little easier.
With this change, you can now put most of your generic labels in one place, and only use the object specific ones for things like spanning, street names, etc.
It’s always the little things.
Posted in 2009, Labels, Styles | 5 Comments »
Posted by Mark Scacco, P.E. on 4th March 2008
It’s been a VERY long time since I posted anything here. I’ve been busy, but I’m always keeping my eye out for a cool (and short) tip I could blog. Well I found one today!
UPDATE: Marcello correctly pointed out a mistake in my original post. Ctrl+right arrow expands the collection and Ctrl+left arrow collapses EVERYTHING. To collapse only the highlighted collection, press SHIFT+left arrow. Thanks, Marcello.
Posted in Labels, Objects | 5 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.
Posted in 2007, 2008, 2009, Best Practices, Labels, Objects, Styles | 25 Comments »
Posted by Jason Hickey on 20th February 2008
Overall, I’m a fan of 2009. A really big fan. It’s ugly, but I think James already discussed that at length. But there are two features of the new release that I hold very near and dear to my heart - want to find out more? Follow the link…
Posted in 2009, Labels, Parcels, Polylines, Reports, Surveying | 13 Comments »
