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Xref, Dref, and Plotting

With C3D, it is an ongoing evolution on what to xref into your plot sheets and when to reference data into your plot sheets. It has been awhile since anything was posted about this so I thought I would share what seems to work the best.

Moving Forward Means Change

It is a fact – your company is either moving forward or backward. It is also a fact that moving forward means change. Some of us make a living off change – such as the revolutionary changes in Civil software over the past 5 years.

Civil 3D 2010 BUG – Edit Point Label Style with Block

Civil 3D 2010 BUG – Edit Point Label Style with Block

There is a sizeable bug in the style interface within Civil 3D 2010.  I say sizeable because I have crashed 12 times within 2 hours trying to debug the problem.
There is also a phenomenon that occurs with Civil Design people and Fridays.  Design software is the last thing on their minds, and they refuse to [...]

What is your Solution to managing styles?

I recently went to LUG meeting and one of the individuals really wished there was a well-built interface to handle the management of styles in Civil3D. In the Go Out in Style blog, there was a comment about a similar tool.
This is actually a cry that many have made.
The question is simply – what [...]

And you thought there were a lot of Styles

In Civil3D, we recently looked at how many different types of styles there. However, Civil3D is completely customizable by giving us control over the commands available to us. The control is found in the Command Settings of each feature. For a current project I am working on I needed to get a list of all [...]

AutoCAD Civil3D 2009 – Update 3 is released

As many are beginning the move to Civil3D 2010, Autodesk has just release Update (SP) 3 for AutoCAD Civil3D 2009. You can download it here.
Make sure you read the ReadMe BEFORE installation.

Network Deployment Issue: Empty Palettes

Lovely. Autodesk released a tech solution today to Network deployments that did not copy the palette contents properly during the deployment creation. Read the full text here. And did you know that you can subscribe via RSS to ALL Civil related technical solutions? Go to this page and toggle on the areas you want information [...]

Mastering and Introducing Civil 3D 2010 Pre-order

I’ve updated the links in the right-sidebar to reflect that the 2010 editions of Mastering and Introducing are available for preorder. Both of these texts are in PDF format right now, but will ship in mid-summer. Thanks to Scott and Rick for their great efforts as co-authors this year, and to Lisa and Jonathan for [...]

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