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posted 04/05/07 by Jack Strongitharm Under your eyes

This week all the European Autodesk AE's met in Paris to learn the features in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 with Anthony Governanti as his last commitment before his job change.
Take a look at the bunch and by the way I did not get involved on the 1kg steak. Link

Also it was Jim Hughes farewell to the team before he leaves for New Zealand with his family for a new adventure at the end of the month as he is a 'talented migrant' as he was called. Working for New Zealand Roads Authority on new design standards.
It was Jim’s fault that we are all here today. But thanks to him as he has been a great team coordinator for the last three years and we will all miss him as a friend and colleague.

AutoCAD 2008, It is absolutely storming!!

Lots of new additional information to share with you over the next couple of months which will keep us busy on this blog.
I will start to jump in the next up coming posts in time for the boxes hitting your in trays.


So the title today reads under your eyes. As Civil 3D is sat on top of AutoCAD we may often overlook some of the little new features that can make life so easy.

Today is ‘Select Similar’ and ‘Isolate objects’. These great commands have been under your eyes every time you right click your mouse!!



Select similar works by selecting an object, for instance a line, right click and select similar. This will then select all the lines in your drawing. If you select a line and a circle and then use the command it will select the lines and also the circles.
This then moves into Civil 3D objects. For example you want to see the pipes in 3D on their own. Rather than selecting all the pipes and structures manually. Select a pipe and structure and run the command.
Much easier!

Isolate works by what ever you select you can either Isolate that object or hide that object. Bit like layers but much quicker. Then when you are finished you can 'End Isolation' and everything returns.

Give it a go. It just gets better.

Good Easter to all.

Jack Strongitharm

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