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 M. Anderson, PE on 6th March 2008
Every open a Civil 3d drawing and begin creating an object and notice that the layer that you need to place an object like a FG surface is missing? What tools do you have? Check out a little tip after the jump.
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Posted in Objects, Surfaces, Templates | 6 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.
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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 August 2007
I really hate to do two fundamental posts back to back, but this was a request from one of my clients this morning. If I’m going to take the time to document something for one person, then I make the assumption that there may be someone else out there who would like the information as well, so I put it here. Quite honestly, it’s also a library that I create for myself as well - I can come back to one of my solutions and point it out for another customer later if needed.
So, today I am going to show a very broad overview of description keys. I’ll save any really in-depth discussion for a future post. To find out what that intimidating looking panorama is asking for, follow the link. (note - for some reason, inline images and Windows Live Writer do not seem to agree completely with our layout…if you have your window maximized as you’re reading this, you may see some strange formatting issues. Actually, you may see some strange formatting issues even if you don’t have a maximized window. I apologize - I’ve spent about an hour trying to edit this to make it look acceptable.)
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Posted in 2008, Fundamentals, Labels, Objects, Points, Styles, Templates | 3 Comments »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 13th December 2006
All of the fuss about styles creation started by James in his post…
Resolved:Building Your Styles is Crucial to Learning Civil 3D
The major issue is that Basic Civil 3D classes do not teach styles creation.
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Posted in AU, Labels, Objects, Styles | 1 Comment »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 15th November 2006
What are object layers? Why do my Express Tools (or Layer II tools) not work the way I expect? When I pick a proposed alignment to freeze, all of my alignments disappear, even the existing ones? Why doesn’t matchprop work anymore? Why is Civil 3D treating me so poorly?? (followed by either cursing and a slamming phone, or tears and a trip to the shrink)
These are common questions from the new Civil 3D user… and often a point of frustration.
Here is an AutoCADÂ analogy that might help. Click here for more
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Posted in Alignments, Best Practices, Labels, Objects, Pipes, Styles | 3 Comments »
Posted by Dana Breig Probert, EIT on 10th October 2006
There are a few tricks for labeling your pipe lengths from structure to structure, but no really good ways to get that structure to structure slope and invert label to match your exact design intentions.
Here is something I came up with that still needs a little bit of babysitting, but isn’t too bad.
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Posted in Downloads, Labels, Objects, Pipes, Profiles, Styles | 2 Comments »
Posted by Jason Hickey on 21st August 2006
Today, a user in the Autodesk Civil 3D discussion group was pondering why his pipe references from vault looked like crap. They didn’t have his styles applied to the pipes, and there was no easy way to change them short of picking them all and editing the properties of the pipe network. Read the rest of this entry »
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