From the Ground Up
A European perspective on design and out of the box thinking with Civil 3D.
About Jack About OveLatest Post
- posted 06/20/07 by Ove Cervin Drawing Tips - hidden feature
- Hello again,
Yesterday we were in the office outside London (Farnborough). In the evening we went to a small place called Fleet. For some reason the weather went "tropic like" when we were going to the hotel and a heavy thunderstorm were coming in. A LOT of rain... We got W-E-T. Actually the streets were flooded. The drainage in that are could really need some upgrade... But the food made us feel much better soon after. And what is some rain? - some people would really love to have more rain...
When we were working on the beta version of C3D 2008 some of us noticed a nice feature when doing design on the Alignment or Profile. That functionality later in the beta period disappered.
This little thing has been presented on Dave and Dans Blog (The Dave and Dan Civil 3D Show) earlier and can be found here.
The reason I'm adding it again is that I think a lot of people have not seen it. ;-) ...and hopefully my small images can explain even more what this actually does.
What I mean is the nice little "marker line" that traced your section in the Profile View when you were moving the cursor along the Alignment in Plan view.
That feature setting is still in C3D 2008, but as a "hidden command". It will probably be more developed before it becomes a standard public command. But it IS nice already...
The use of this "feature" is what's displayed in the screenshots below.
First is a shot showing Plan and Profile View.
You can see the cursor in Plan. What is interesting is that the Section is presented as a black line also in the Profile View - simultaniously. This is all in the same View in the drawing.
Command: ShowDrawingTips
Next shot is presenting the other way around, cursor in Profile View also presents a Section line in Plan at the same time!
The last screenshot presents an alternative setting for the command;
Command: ShowDrawingTipsFull
This gives a simultane line in all Views if you move your cursor. In the image below I have three views presenting Section, Plan and Profile. If the cursor is in any view you get a line/marker/leader in all the other views.
I have the cursor in Section view (top left) and the line is following in Plan and Profile View.
View image
To turn the command off; use: Command: HideDrawingTips
Try it out and decide for yourself.
Until next time - have a great one! Cheers! / Ove C
---
Disclaimer: The opinions and material on this site are my own and do not necessarily represent Autodesk’s positions or opinions
