Civil3d Points Help please

C3D Newb here too.

Assuming you're using another's design/drawing (no template or styles setup) and you can select (window) the "cogo points"...change their point label style to standard in Cogo Point Properties.

Jeez, Ryan,

What have you been doing all of these years? Hand Drafting? You've fooled a lot of people, including me.

lol

Seriously, I hear the learning curve for C3D is brutal. Sorry I can't help. I, for one, will go kicking and screaming into C3D. Old dawg/new tricks.

I wish LLCOGO would come back, sometimes.

Best of luck. I am sure someone here will offer some tips.

JA, PLS SoCal

See.

How tough was that?

JA, PLS SoCal

Thank you. That worked.

Highlight the selected points, then right click and go to properties or ctrl+1.

Fifth from the top you will find "Point Label Style". Click on the box and then there will be a pull down. Select "Create/edit"

A new dialog box will appear with the varying types of label styles. if the label style you want is not listed or you want to edit the way it looks, there is a screen with a pencil icon, click the arrow just to the right and select "edit current selection"

From there a new dialog box appears with a ribbon at the top. Select "Layout", under "text" there is a row called "contents" this is where you can add a bunch of different items.

I hoped this helps. If not, send it to me and I should be able to give you what you need.

brad.luken@flysfo.com

Brad Luken, LS
_{AZ, CA, NV & OR}

Mr. Versteeg,

We've kept up our subscription and held on to LDD far too long while letting our C3D upgrades collect dust for the most part.

Just signed on for another 3 years and completed 2 days of C3D for Surveyors. While looking forward to setting up our templates in 2013, we've been reminiscing about the changeover we went through from R14 to LDT. Some time in the classroom helped a lot back then too.

Have fun!
G

I'm a Microstation/Inroads user, have been since day one. I finally got somewhat respectable on AutoCAD LDD 2008 and then switched to a new company that has company wide licenses for C3D 2011. They also have Bentley products so I use those when I can, but have to make a delivery and get this out.

Thanks again for the hlp everyone.

Jerry,

Do I know you?

I guess I'm not sure who you are.

🙂

Ryan~ There is a pretty good tutorial for LDD/LDT to C3D that you should look into. Go to help (f1). Click on contents tab and look in the AutoCAD Civil 3D help. In the right window, you should see "Land Desktop to Civil 3D". Click on that and It will help you make some of the transition. C3D is a beast and I can't use the real words on this site or they would ban me for LIFE! I currently use Carlson Survey (but that is another discussion). But I still dabble with C3D and took several training sessions. Main point to always remember is most of the control of C3D is done in toolspace in both settings and prospector tab. There are default settings, but you got to setup those templates to get C3D working for you.

Template

If anybody wants my template, let me know. It will get you started anyway. The template is key in C3D.

> Jeez, Ryan,
>
> What have you been doing all of these years? Hand Drafting? You've fooled a lot of people, including me.
>
> lol
>
> Seriously, I hear the learning curve for C3D is brutal. Sorry I can't help. I, for one, will go kicking and screaming into C3D. Old dawg/new tricks.
>
> I wish LLCOGO would come back, sometimes.
>
> Best of luck. I am sure someone here will offer some tips.
>
> JA, PLS SoCal

LLCOGO! A blast from the past.

I was a beta user and used to chat with Ken Chapman on a regular basis. I used it daily for over 5 years from 82-87 and later in 89-90. Both the H-P version and the PC Version.

One of the best pure cogo programs I ever used.

If you at all interested, I can provide a HUGE amount of help as to how to use C3D for Survey. I've been doing it since 2006. And I've also done some training for various companies and government agencies...

As opposed to what Autodesk recommends, I show how to be PRODUCTIVE. Lots of people like LDD, but stuff that might have taken me a week in LDD, I can do in 4-6 hours in C3D. So it IS very possible to use C3D effectively. But lots of of what Autodesk recommends are bad techniques, and waste tons of time, because they don't seem to understand Surveying. One of the things about using C3D is it's incredibly versatile, but you can easily get lost in all the choices. And following Autodesk's directions can often lead you in the wrong direction.

Much of what I know can be taught over the internet, via things like GoToMeeting, or something like that. So you don't even have to pay to have me fly to your location, and pay for airfair+hotel. And you can also space the training out over time, concentrating on just a couple of hours at a time, which seems to work much better. When people go through 8 hours of training per day, they seem to start getting "brain damage" after 4-6 hours, and the benefit of the training goes way down. So a couple of hours/day seems to be far more beneficial. Especially when doing web-based training, which seems to drain attention even more.

And you CAN use C3D very effectively. It's probably the most powerful solution available, unless you go up to something like Pro/E [at many times the cost], but probably not as good for Surveying (being more an Engineering product), and not really worthwhile unless you have HUGE projects. Carlson is pretty good and effective, and better in some applications than C3D, but I think you can do more faster - with better quality control, and better final outputs - with C3D in most areas, as long as you know how to use C3D, and have the right (and maintained) template.