Archive for Dana Probert

Importing Styles from Another Drawing with EEProPack

imageI’ve been teaching a lot of our unlimited instructor-led training sessions lately, and we always try to integrate the EEProPack with each class. (Both unlimited training and the EEProPack are part of our CivilAccess package.)

If you have ever had to drag styles from one drawing to another, you know that it works, but man it takes a lot of time (and some fine motor mouse skills!) You can import a whole drawing’s worth of styles using some insert block tricks, but then you sometimes wind up with a messy drawing with extra junk left behind. Not to mention that neither of these methods will bring over your command settings, so you are hopelessly relegated to checking every command to make sure that pesky “standard” style doesn’t come in by default.

With the EEProPack, you import Civil 3D styles, command settings or object layers. You can even import all of the styles and settings from a Civil 3D template in one shot.

For this example, I’ll show you how to use the EEProPack to import just a handful of styles into your current drawing.

Read more after the jump. To request a free trial of the EEProPack, click here.

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Civil 3D 2009: Adding Custom Text to Parcel Labels

Sometimes its the small things that make me happy.

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Resources from Building Better Surfaces EECast 6-4-2008

I am constantly looking for more resources to fill in the gaps of what I know about terrain modeling. They didn’t really teach it in school (or maybe I wasn’t there that day), and I have never been able to find much that was universally helpful. My EECast today was based on tidbits gained from many sources.

See the complete list of links, books and tutorials after the jump.

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EECast Today (6.4.08): Building Better Terrain Models

Tomorrow, I will be doing an EECast on Building Better Terrain models.

I put this class together a few years ago to help new designers figure out how surfaces work, and I found that the room was often crowded with not only the new staff, but everyone! If you have ever wondered what REALLY happens with triangulation, or what difference do breaklines REALLY make, be sure to tune in. Note that I will be using Civil 3D 2009 to build the models, but the surface building theory will apply no matter what software you use.

Also note that Mark Scacco will be leading off the webcast with some additional news about Land Desktop being discontinued, the new product mix, and how EE can help.

Learn how to sign up and see the agenda after the jump.

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New for Civil 3D 2009: Free Curve By Best Fit

Have you ever wrestled with alignment curves in Civil 3D? You want a flexible, free curve that is constrained by radius, but you’d like it to come close to a certain location, or maybe even follow a few Civil 3D points.

Civil 3D 2009 adds some new alignment curve tools to help. Find out more after the jump.

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