By Donnie Gladfelter on March 11, 2009
While importing surface data from Google Earth is probably the easiest way to get some conceptual topographical data into your drawings, DEM’s have to be a close second. For the uninitiated, DEM’s or Digital Elevation Models could be described as a surface whose data is organized in a grid. This is fundamentally different than DTM’s [...]
Posted in Civil 3D 2008, Civil 3D 2009 | Tagged Coordinate System, DEM, sdts2dem
By Donnie Gladfelter on February 10, 2008
Over the last several months I have been working my way through the ever popular Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 book, written by the gang over at Civil3D.com (Engineered Efficiency). As a fellow member of the blogosphere, I have had the privilege to establish a professional relationship with a good portion of the Engineered [...]
Posted in Civil 3D 2008, General | Tagged Civil 3D 2008, Review
By Donnie Gladfelter on September 27, 2007
Virginia Tech has naturally received a lot of media attention since the terror of April 16, 2007. Tomorrow (Saturday) happens to be Homecoming for tech where they will play North Carolina. As Enter Sandman finishes playing, and the clock ticks down, the Virginia Tech Hokies will hopefully be 4-1 for the season. But why [...]
Posted in Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2008
By Donnie Gladfelter on September 24, 2007
The September / October issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download. The cover story for this issue is “A First Good Impression”. Impression is a brand new program that Autodesk released this year which allows you to give your CAD drawings a hand sketched look. Anyone faced with creating such exhibits and illustrations [...]
Posted in Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2008, Map 3D
By Donnie Gladfelter on August 25, 2007
New to Civil 3D 2008 is the ability to create composed parcel labels. Before the introduction of composed parcel label styles, one would have to configure a separate parcel label style for each labeling scenario. Or in other words, a style to show the parcels area in square feet, another to show it [...]
Posted in Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2008
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