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RE: Been wondering what he's doing now

I know the he in the title is referring to Kent, but reading that article gave me a flashback to another name. I worked with Bill Merten for a few yea...

2 months ago
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2 months ago
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RE: Point to line inverse in C3D

Seems like you may have a solution to your question, but I did offer a suggestion in this thread that may be useful. It looks like the attachment...

7 months ago
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RE: C3D COGO

It's not often I say this, but I have learned something new. I have been using C3D since 2006, and I never have heard of this Mapcogo command. I tried...

7 months ago
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RE: C3D 2024

Yeah I really don't remember the last time I would have called any release of AutoCAD "buggy".

11 months ago
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RE: Lisps for civil 3d from carlson

Thanks. I had never done that previously (I also use it routinely) and will probably never do it again, but after initially thinking I had nothing to ...

12 months ago
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RE: Lisps for civil 3d from carlson

I'm a C3D guy. I won't be able to help you with any lisp routines, mostly because I don't find myself doing either of these things as part of my work ...

12 months ago
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RE: Repetitive Text values in a dwg

Okay, another idea that might be simpler. You can make an attributed block that contains all of the parameters you might need. Insert the block anywhe...

1 year ago
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RE: Repetitive Text values in a dwg

I don't understand why your engineering team is doing a copy and paste of the survey. Why are they not just using your drawing file as an xref? I beli...

1 year ago
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RE: Carlson & Civil 3D

I was originally going to let slide the comment about how difficult it is to inverse between points in C3D, but since several people have chimed in la...

1 year ago
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RE: 2 CAD / Carlson Questions

For the first, try the command Startup. Either 2 or 3 is what you might want. For the second, there are two variables you need to set. Attreq should b...

2 years ago
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RE: Best software for intro to model building

@norman-oklahoma You might want to reread what he's saying. Or maybe I need to, because I have a completely different interpretation of what's writte...

2 years ago
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RE: Drafting question

It's interesting to me that people still hold on to the same pen sizes that were available when the industry moved from manual drafting to computer dr...

2 years ago
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RE: Best Civil 3D Add-On software for Surveyors. DotSoft or SincPac?

This didn't generate much response. I've never used either, but I know there are people on this board who have used one or the other. I think these tw...

2 years ago
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RE: Opening DWG files with Civil 3D

He wants the same layers on and off every time, or he wants them the same when he returns to a particular drawing? I would use the layer states manage...

2 years ago
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RE: AutoCAD Dynamic Input copy and paste?

I think you are probably out of luck when it comes to using copy/paste from the dynamic input. Is there a reason you wouldn't just use the ID command ...

2 years ago
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RE: Opening DWG files with Civil 3D

There is no proper etiquette for opening a drawing of course. People will use whatever option they are comfortable with using. If I were ranking my pr...

2 years ago
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RE: Rotating view in paper space without affecting coordinates

The sweet thing about MVSETUP is that I'm not messing with the UCS at all. This is basically what I do, except I use the Align Space in Express Too...

2 years ago
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RE: Carlson Point question

Another thing to check would be your DDPTYPE. Make sure it's not set to a circle. Going from memory and not sure if that's the command or if it's PDM...

2 years ago
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RE: Drafting with non-standard scales?

To me, it all depends on your definition of a standard scale. Why would 100 be a standard scale, but not 120? Either way, you have to multiply. I can ...

2 years ago
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