Sometimes it’s really helpful to have a few properties available for review and editing, but the Properties palette can take up a lot of precious screen area. The Quick Properties Palette is a good alternative, but often the properties you want to see or edit aren’t included. It’s very easy to customize. In fact, it’s so easy, you can […]
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When setting up a complex mapping project, especially one that involves insets at different scales, I usually start with rectangular viewports. They regen quickly and are simple to draw. When I am ready to finalize the layout for plotting, here’s one of those handy tools that used to be hidden as a command line only
It has become common to work with surfaces in Civil 3D that are created from large datasets that contain tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of points. Even with the latest hardware, performance can become an issue when attempting to display these large datasets. Civil 3D 2012 introduced a new feature called
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I am excited to announce that my latest book, A Practical Guide to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013, is now available. The books in the Practical Guide series have been formatted to maximize learning by starting all lessons with an explanation of the concepts and processes that will be covered; followed by real world examples in
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I have always been frustrated with the way that Civil 3D preforms an Elevation Surface Analysis. This is a great tool, however, the process of running the analysis has always seemed cumbersome to me. There has never been a way to set an interval for the elevation bands or a starting elevation for the bands.
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Cleaning up Civil 3D drawings and removing unwanted or unneeded styles has been a tedious process in the past. Yes, you could do it, but the process was time consuming. Now in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012, we finally have a quick and easy Purge Style command. For the complete tutorial, (and many others) follow this
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I’m often asked questions by users that are frustrated when labeling pipe network Structures in Civil 3D. They would like the label to extend out of the top or bottom of the structure but instead it is being labeled at the center, even when the label is dragged to another location and displayed in the
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In previous posts I have discussed a number of ways that you can improve the performance of AutoCAD Civil 3D. Those tutorials have consistently drawn a lot of interest and feedback so I have brought them all together in the following list along with some new items that I have come across. For the complete
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Most of us are always looking for ways to improve the performance of Civil 3D, let’s be honest, no matter how fast things get it could always be faster. One thing to consider is the way that your Label Styles are set up, because in some cases it can make a noticeable difference. In this
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The increased availability of LIDAR data and other forms of large point datasets have brought new challenges to many Civil 3D users as they attempt to build surfaces from datasets containing millions of points. Learn how to improve the performance of these large surfaces when you only need to build the surface in a small
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