At first look the Object Viewer in Land Desktop and the standard 3D Orbit command in AutoCAD look very similar. Each command allows you to rotate, or orbit, around objects in 3 dimensional space. This is great for checking your design or examining surfaces to look for holes, spikes, or other errors. They also beat […]
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The Quick Section command is one of those Land Desktop commands that have been forgotten by many people. This may have been for a good reason, because prior to Land Desktop 3 although the command would allow you to easily view a section through a surface there was no way to import the section into
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A common question that I get is how to use Surveyor’s Units in Land Desktop. Many people become frustrated that after setting the AutoCAD Units command to Surveyor’s Units that it is automatically set back to Decimal Units by Land Desktop the next time you run a Land Desktop command. After all many of you
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We have all probably received a drawing at one time or another that contains 3D faces representing a surface. Now your job is to convert these 3D faces into a Civil 3D surface that you can use for creating Profiles, Sections, Contours, and a variety of other things. The best way to translate a surface from
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Lets look at scaling points based on data in a point file. You may have scaled points in LDT but how is it accomplished in Civil 3D 2007? First though lets clarify what I mean by scaling points. What I mean when refereeing to scaling points is having a value in the point file that
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The 2008 version of AutoCAD Civil 3D has been available for some time now. With another version comes more to learn. This means more tools and features that will help you do your job more efficiently. For those of you that haven’t ventured into Civil 3D yet as you may be aware it’s going to
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If you have been working with larger drawings in Civil 3D you may have wished for a way to speed up the drawing. There are some things you can do with styles to assist in speeding up your drawing. If you haven’t used the following tips before you might want to give them a try.
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While Section Views are dynamic and will reflect the changes to the corridor model they are also dynamic to the location of the Sample Lines. As an example, let’s say you sampled your lines with a swath width of 70’ left and 90’ right. After doing this you realized that at a certain Sample Line
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With Civil 3D 2007’s use of Styles to control the display of objects it’s a great idea to create various Styles that incorporate the CAD standards your organization has developed. The easier you make it for the users to apply your organizations standards as they work the more compliance with standards you should have. My
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In AutoCAD Civil 3D it can be very tedious to edit Label Styles one at a time. Depending on your CAD standards this may be necessary. However, it is likely that most if not all of your labels will have some things in common. For example you might use the same text style, height, or
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