January knowledge Base

Good morning everyone. Wow these last 2 months has been crazy busy for me with Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and trips to California and Kansas. In addition, work has picked up so things are busy at work also.

Anyways I have posted below Autodesk January’s posted known issues. The tip of the week that I have for you is after you have finished creating your existing surface I would lock your existing surface and also lock the layer that your existing points and featurelines are on. You definitely don’t want to be working on your proposed grades and later find out that you or someone has accidently deleted the existing featureslines which changed the way your existing surface looks now. Trust me I know this from a past experience. Anyways I’m working on the roundabout training DVD that I mention last month. I am hoping I can finish it this week. Stay tune. Anyways thank you all that have emailed me and posted comments. I have not forgotten you.

 

Resetting User Settings

Resetting user settings for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010

Resolving user specific issues by resetting AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011

Resolving user specific issues by resetting AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012

Exported Civil 3D Drawing Labels do not display at elevation

Assigning a Color to a New Layer Problem

Good morning everyone. I hope everyone is enjoying their xmas week. Just a few more days before I go back to San Diego to spend time with my daughter I can’ wait.

Anyways for the past few weeks my coworkers and I have noticed a problem with assigning a color to a new layer in C3D 2012 and it not staying. I researched the issue on Autodesk discussion board and other people were having the same issue. I informed Autodesk and I was told their were aware of it and there was not fix for the issue at the time.

Well 2 days ago I decided to seat down and find a work around for it. Here is what I ended up with. When you create your new layer you have to hit enter to exit out of the new layer command. Then you can assign the color and make it current. If you try to assign the color while in the new layer command, the color will change as soon as you exit out of the layer manager. See video below. I want to clarify that this problem has not affected very one using C3D 2012.

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Best AU Class of 2011

Good morning everyone. Now that AU-Con (like Comic-Con lol) aftermath is over, I would love to hear about which class was the best of the best at AU-Con 2011, for those of you that had the privilege to go. Feel free to post below. I am definitely going to go next year for my first time.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Good evening everyone. I hope everyone is having a great xmas month so far. Sorry I haven’t posted in a while, I have lots going on with a second job now. Plus getting ready for the xmas and new years lol.

Anyways, the other day one of my engineers ask if the was simple way to remove Carlson points from base drawing but leave the tree description so he could send it to a client? Our Carlson point are cogo blocks displaying 3 attributes. (point number, point description, and point elevation) After a few minutes of thinking, I remembered the BURST command. For those of you that use Carlson cogo points for surveying, know that you cant just simply use the layer isolate feature to isolate the the point attributes. If you do all you will get is the point marker. You have to actually go into layer manager and turn on the description, point number, and point elevation layers. See image below.

Ok at this point, some of you might say “just simply explode the cogo points”. Well if you do that, you will lose all the attribute data. See image below.

To get around this problem, you will use the BURST command. What this does is actually separates your cogo point block attribute data into their individual layer. So it’s kind of like a explode and extract feature. After I typed my burst command and windowed all the cogo point, I was then able to use the layer isolate feature to isolate the point number and point elevation layer and delete from my drawing. My engineer was shocked after I completed this task within 1-2 minutes for home.

Anyways I just thought this was a cool command that everyone should know. I hope everyone has a great week.

Knowledge Base for November

Hi everyone. Sorry I haven’t posted lately. Here is Autodesk’s posted known issues. I will try to do part 2 of Civil 3D 2012 this week. In addition, I will also do a post on catchments and labels. Thank you all those that have emailed me about the training videos. I am currently working on the pipe network DVD first. I will have it done this week. As soon as they are ready to be shipped out, I will send emails out and post on here on how to order the training DVD’s. Because of the popular demand, I have decided to create a roundabout DVD. The DVD will basically be the city user group presentation I did few months ago. A handout will also be included with the DVD. Anyways, thank you all for emails and comments. Have a great week.

Delete Used Layers In Civil 3D

3rd party application, AutoPlant, is crashing

3rd party application, CADconform, is crashing

 

Civil 3D 2012 New Volume Dashboard Extension

Good evening everyone. I hope everyone enjoyed the Halloween weekend. I know I did. I ended up dressing up as Goose from Top Gun lol. Anyways, I just wanted to share some cool information to all those Autodesk Subscription members. Autodesk just released the new Volume Dashboard extension for C3D 2012. This new C3D extension is basically a more advance version of the surface volume feature. Now you have the capabilities of analyzing surface volume for particular sections/areas of you project site. The volume dashboard extension will definitely come in handy for those that design subdivision. I already love it because it helped me balance my site. The new Volume Dashboard is compatible for 32 bit or 64 bit versions of C3D 2012. As of right now, the extension is only in English.  Anyways I have provided a short video presentation for yall. Let me know what you think. Enjoy

Civil 3D 2012 Part 1

Hi everyone. I decided to create a short video presentation over a few feature that have been incorporated into civil 3D 2012. I’m sure most of half if you have already installed C3D 2012 and designing away like crazy lol. This short video can be a refresher for some of you or a training video for some of you. This video will be part 1 of 4 videos that I will create. On top of that, I have decided to create my very own person training DVD’s for civil 3D beginners. Each DVD with have 25 videos. I will create 4 training DVD’s over pipe networks and labels, alignments and profiles, grading, customization and settings. Feel free to email me if you are interested in one of my DVDs. Enjoy the video