Okay it’s a tough title to digest but don’t worry, this will simply be a short quick tip post.

If you’re like me, you sometimes take the easy way out when adding feature line breaklines to a surface definition and select a bunch of feature lines with one crossing window. The trouble begins when you need to remove just one or two of those feature lines from the surface but you don’t want to remove and redefine all of the breaklines.  Perhaps you also want to retain the feature line in your drawing and for some reason you would like to avoid using wblocks or the Windows Clipboard since this is not an Autodesk Best Practice for Civil 3D objects. This is no dilemma. Read more after the jump if you want to know a simple workaround to remove some of the feature lines from a multiple breakline surface definition while retaining them in your drawing.

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Please Welcome SITEOPS as Our Sponsor

I’m proud to announce that civil3d.com has take on our first official sponsor: SITEOPS, Site Engineering Software. Over the past few months, you’ve seen some posts from Dave Settlemyer, P.E. from SITEOPS, and you’ll be seeing more in the future. I’ve been in discussion with the folks at SITEOPS for some time. I think more civil3d.com readers should know more about their software, and they would obviously love to hear from you. Please, do me a favor,  click on that link and let them you know appreciate their support for high quality Civil-related blogging.

Civil3d.com has always prided itself on independence, and that doesn’t change. What this sponsorship does do is allow me to keep the lights on and reward the authors once in a while for all their hard work. If you’d like to be part of the Authoring team here, just shoot me an e-mail, wedding@ this domain. Thanks for reading, and thanks to all my friends at SITEOPS for being our first official sponsor. We appreciate your support!

 

Pipe and Structure Profile Label Styles

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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New Directions in Engineering Software

As civil engineering technology requirements expand and evolve, so does the software needed to support this growth. Today’s design tools are getting smarter and helping us as engineers to be more creative.

I wanted to share some recent articles with you that explain why SITEOPS is getting so much attention in such a short time. In the latest CE News, Bob Drake writes about the future of design software, as seen by some of the leading software companies.  In this week’s ENR, Tom Sawyer talks about how Little Diversified (based in Charlotte, NC) was able to use SITEOPS to save Siemens about $100,000 in site cost, and to help them identify optimal placement for a building.  These are the kind of results that users of SITEOPS see every day and why they are winning projects.  If you would like to read these articles, I have attached shortlinks below.

CE NEWS:http://bit.ly/aDFhqk

ENR: http://bit.ly/blqDrd

SITEOPS has quickly risen to the top of a long list of engineering software that is leading the civil engineering community into the future, but the technology is only part of the story. The team at SITEOPS is known for listening to our users and the engineering industry, constantly adding tools that will help you make better decisions faster. We invite you to learn about our software and give us YOUR feedback.

If anyone wants to see more about SITEOPS, please visit us at siteops.com.

 

Styles, Settings, and Templates – Oh my

It is not a stretch of the truth nor is it a new find that managing styles, settings, and templates has been daunting with Civil 3D. Then with each additional release there are improvements made to the existing styles and settings and new styles and settings added. Actually with Civil 3D 2010 SAP there were new styles and settings added MIDSTREAM!

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