By Donnie Gladfelter on April 20, 2009
A couple weeks ago, I had what some would call the perfect storm; a major deadline, crashing grading drawings, and managerial pressure to get it fixed yesterday. Trouble was, regardless of the series of commands I threw at the troublesome drawings, the errors remained, and the drawings continued to crash. In fact, there was [...]
Posted in Civil 3D 2009 | Tagged Civil 3D, Feature Lines, Sites, Undocumented Command
By Donnie Gladfelter on March 20, 2009
Ever since Microsoft launched Office 2007 the trend has undoubtedly shifted from the traditional interface employing menus and toolbars, to the “new and improved” ribbon. Users of vanilla AutoCAD got ribbonized with last year’s 2009 release. While a classic workspace was still shipped with the product, the ribbon was an integral part of the [...]
Posted in Civil 3D 2010 | Tagged Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2010, New Features, Ribbon
By Donnie Gladfelter on March 6, 2009
The first week of March 2009 has proven to be rather eventful. On Sunday/Monday Richmond, VA saw it’s first real snow since 2005. Geeks got to celebrate square root day for the first time since 2/2/04 on Tuesday (3/3/09). As if each of those weren’t noteworthy in their own right, Autodesk posted two new Civil [...]
Posted in Civil 3D | Tagged Autodesk, Civil 3D, Success Story
By Donnie Gladfelter on November 3, 2008
When compared to Land Desktop’s View/Edit Sections command, Civil 3D has always been the winner. Still it was easy to get lost modifying your corridor. Did I need to modify station 13+25.17 or 13+25? Prior to Civil 3D 2009 I always found myself flip-flopping between plan view and the View/Edit Corridor Section command. Civil 3D [...]
Posted in Civil 3D 2009 | Tagged Civil 3D, Corridors, features, Sections, View Edit
By Donnie Gladfelter on October 27, 2008
Civil 3D, H&H, Hydrology, Hydraflow
Posted in Civil 3D | Tagged Civil 3D, Civil 3D Extensions, Hydraflow, Hydrology