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- Editing Contour Data
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Before you add contour polyline data to a surface, consider whether it includes some terrain that is not needed for design purposes. If so, you can use the AEC modify tools to crop unwanted portions of the contours. These tools are available on the right-click menu when no objects are selected: AEC Modify Tools > Drop.
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- Controlling the projects to display in prospector
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If you have a large number of projects in your Vault, they will all be displyed under the Projects collection in the Prospector by default. If you would like to limit the number of projects displayed, from Prospector, right click on the Projects collection (need to be logged into the Vault) and select Set Projects to Display. In the list that opens, toggle off any project you do not wish to see in your Projects collection on the Prospector tab of Toolspace. Select OK when done, and the list will update to reflect the changes.
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| Profile and Section Views To minimize processing time, design your profile and section views on grids that use styles without excess detail. Some examples are as follows: ... |
Autodesk Civil 3D | August 2007 | |
| Feature Lines In Civil 3D you can use multiple sites to manage feature lines in distinct groups. The Move to Site and Copy to Site commands are helpful in this p... |
Autodesk Civil 3D | July 2007 | |
| Editing Contour Data Before you add contour polyline data to a surface, consider whether it includes some terrain that is not needed for design purposes. If so, you can... |
Autodesk Civil 3D | July 2007 | |
| Reduce the Displayed Surface Area by Adding a Mask If your original surface extends beyond the region affected by your design, you can apply a mask or boundary to suppress extraneous data from the s... |
Autodesk Civil 3D | June 2007 | |
| Select Similar and Isolate Objects It’s easy to overlook some of the little features that can make life a little easier such as ‘Select Similar’ and ‘Isolate ... |
Autodesk Civil 3D | April 2007 | |
| Extracting coordinate data from Shape Files Sometimes when we receive shape files from outside sources, we might require the need to export the data to a coordinate file to upload to a ... |
Autodesk Civil 3D | March 2007 | |
| Scanning Surface.. Drawing Contours When I started using Civil3D for production drawings I noticed that the Scanning & Drawing routine would run twice, or three times in some layo... |
Autodesk Civil 3D | January 2007 | |
| Getting rid of extra layers in your DWT You use DWT files, right? Some are perhaps fairly complete and many are works-in-progress as you continue to fine tune them on the next job. So... |
Autodesk Civil 3D | December 2006 | |
| Units: International Foot or US Survey Foot The format of the Units (set using the AutoCAD "Units" command) are only seen when you enter and display linear units. Therefore, when dr... |
Autodesk Civil 3D | November 2006 | |
| Ambient Settings: Direction If you’ve come from the DCA, Softdesk, or Land Desktop environment, then set your direction units to DD.MMSSSS (decimal dms) before you begin... |
Autodesk Civil 3D | November 2006 |