I decided that by sharing I could come up with some decent ideas from the Civil 3D community and who knows, and maybe somebody would learn something new (myself included). This week I’m going to share with you the pipe and structure label styles that we utilize for profile annotation. More after the jump.
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One of the most frequently-asked questions in the Civil 3D discussion groups has to do with how scaling works for Civil 3D labels and tables. The question usually comes up phrased as “How come my text looks good in modelspace, but is huge (or tiny) in paperspace?” or “How come my Table columns overlap in paperspace?”
At first glance, Civil 3D labels and tables seem to scale much like Annotative Text. However, Civil 3D Labels and Tables were capable of their auto-sizing behavior long before AutoCAD got Annotative Text, and do not use the Annotation Scale at all. Instead, Civil 3D Labels size according to their own rules. Read on for more…
We recently had a client request that we display the Latitude and Longitude of Cogo Points formatted as degrees and decimal minutes. This format seems to have become a standard display format of many hand-held GPS units. Unfortunately, Civil 3D does not contain a built-in option for formatting Latitude and Longitude in decimal minutes. No problem, I thought… I’ll simply use some expressions. But it turned out to be a much more difficult task than I expected… Read on for the details.
On May 25, 2010,
in 2011, Autodesk, Cad Management, Labels, Objects, Styles, civil3d.com,
by Matt Kolberg
A LONG time ago Dana Probert suggested a method to grab styles from one file and quickly add them to the current file (V1.0). Engineered Efficiency created a tool and placed it in their ProPack (V2.0). You can find the post here http://civil3drocks.blogspot.com/2006/07/super-secret-style-getter.html.
Civil 3D 2011 has two new tools. Read on…
Please welcome Tony Carcamo to the civil3d.com team–JW
Hi everyone. I would like to say this is my first official post with Civil3d.com. Tonight, I would like to provide you a few tips and tricks for pipe network design. Lets begin by setting the Manning’s coefficient for each of your pipe sizes in the part network list. I provided a list of the three most commonly used storm pipe types below. You can also find this information in most city standard drainage manual. This will come in handy later on in the post. (more…)
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