Tag: Quick
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AutoCAD Civil 3D for Land Surveyors Coordinate Systems Refresher Video
In this oldie but goodie video, I show you how to set up coordinate systems in AutoCAD Civil 3D Drawings & Survey Databases. If you’re new to AutoCAD Civil 3D, properly setting up your Drawing and Survey Databases is the most important thing you need to do. While this video shows you how to set up…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks-How to Rotate Model Space
In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I will show How to Rotate Model Space. This technique can help you to speed up your AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing by aligning your model space other than having north straight up. The Problem: By default, AutoCAD Civil 3D drawings are oriented with north pointing up. This sometimes…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks-Importing AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles
In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I will show Importing AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles. This is another technique that helps you to speed up the creation of AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles by using already created Styles from your other AutoCAD Civil 3D drawings and templates. You can also read AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Using Layer Source From Other DWGs When Creating Styles
In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I will show Using Layer Source From Other DWGs When Creating Styles. This technique helps you speed up the creation of AutoCAD Civil 3D Styles by using already created layers from your other AutoCAD Civil 3D drawings and templates. The Problem: You are creating new styles in…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: How To Setup and Use Surface Styles To Edit Surfaces Efficiently
In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I will show you How To Setup and Use Surface Styles To Edit Surfaces Efficiently. This technique increases your CAD drafting and AutoCAD Civil 3D Surface creation and editing productivity by employing proper template setup and reducing switching between Toolspace Tabs and drilling down through what…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Drawing Scale Settings
This is the fifth AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks expanding upon a previous article I wrote outlining the 5 AutoCAD Civil 3D Settings Professional Land Surveyors Need To Know. The fifth of the five AutoCAD Civil 3D settings Professional Land Surveyors need to know was, “Drawing Scale Settings“, which is explained in today’s AutoCAD…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Angle Format Settings
This is the fourth of five AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks expanding upon a previous article I wrote outlining the 5 AutoCAD Civil 3D Settings Professional Land Surveyors Need To Know. The fourth of the five AutoCAD Civil 3D settings Professional Land Surveyors need to know was, “Angle Format Settings“, which is explained…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: LandXML Data Imperial Units Settings
This is the third of five AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks expanding upon a previous article I wrote outlining the 5 AutoCAD Civil 3D Settings Professional Land Surveyors Need To Know. [s2Member-PayPal-Button sp=”1″ ids=”4301″ exp=”72″ desc=”3.99 LandXML Data Imperial Units Settings AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks” ps=”paypal” lc=”” cc=”USD” dg=”0″…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Survey Database Units and Zone Settings
This is the second of five AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks expanding upon a previous article I wrote outlining the 5 AutoCAD Civil 3D Settings Professional Land Surveyors Need To Know. The second of the five AutoCAD Civil 3D settings Professional Land Surveyors need to know was, “Survey Database Units and Zone Settings“,…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Setting Units and Zone In AutoCAD Civil 3D Drawings
Last week I wrote an article outlining the 5 AutoCAD Civil 3D Settings Professional Land Surveyors Need To Know. Because these are important settings I’ll write an AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks article weekly about each of those five settings. The first of the five AutoCAD Civil 3D settings Professional Land Surveyors need to…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Add Ribbon Menu Items To The Quick Access Toolbar
In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I’m going to show you how to Add Ribbon Menu Items To The Quick Access Toolbar. This technique is very useful when you want to have easy access to a favorite AutoCAD Civil 3D menu item but don’t want the hassle of switching Ribbon Panels (particularly if…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Create A Surface From A Point Group
In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I’ll will show you how to Create a Surface From a Point Group. There seems to be a lot of confusion as to how to create a Surface in AutoCAD Civil 3D which is a task you will no doubt use often in your professional land surveying practice.…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Finding the Description Key Sets
In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I’m going to show you how to find the Description Key Sets. Yesterday this issue came up as a few of you were busily learning to use, or just trying to use, AutoCAD Civil 3D and couldn’t find the old Description Key Sets file. Unlike…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Apply Description Keys
In today’s AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks I’m going to show you how to apply Description Key codes to a point. This may be necessary in the following situations. You created a point in your AutoCAD Civil 3D drawing and inadvertently entered an incorrect description. Now you want to correct the description…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Menu Bar
AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Menu Bar If you’ve upgraded from previous versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 one of the first things you’ll notice is the Ribbon interface. The Ribbon interface of process-oriented grouped commands and functions may take some getting used to at first, but once you start using it…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Quick Tips and Tricks: Image Edit and Frames
More AutoCAD Civil 3D Surveying Help! I get more questions about AutoCAD Civil 3D than I do on any other subject. The complexity of the program coupled with the myriad of settings required to make it a useful piece of surveying and design software results in it being very tricky to set up and use.…