2011 around the corner

Since v2011 is just around the corner I may hold off on creating any more styles vids till that is released. Plus that give me a great excuse for not posting because I've been busy with business and training and such.

I will continue the vis and promise to get through all the style in v2011 at least once. I may have to revisit some of the vids I have already done if they change in v2011.

Great discussion going on in the DG about the 2011 upgrade. Lots of great points. The killer for me is 64 bit. I promised myself I would upgrade the computer when C3D went 64bit. So I go on Dell and found a monster of a laptop. Check out the specs.

Intel Core i7-920XM Quad Core 2.00GHz 8MB for M6500
8.0GB, DDR3-1333 SDRAM, 2 DIMMfor Dell Mobile Precision
nVidia Quadro FX 2800M, 1.0GB DDR3 Discrete for M6500
500GB Hard Drive 9.5MM 7200RPMfor Mobile Precision MX400
17" UltraSharp WUXGA (1920x1200) RGB LED Display for M6500
Dell WLAN 1510 (802.11a/b/g/n 2X3) 1/2 MiniCard for LatitudeE/Mobile Precision

Now if I can just wait till Dell makes it and ships it. It may kill me waiting. Well till next time.

Parcel Label Style vid

The parcel label style is where you can do some powerful labeling. It will even used the user classifications for a label. So say you need a label for type of house (ranch, split level,...) You can add that to your parcel and use a parcel label to show it on your plans. Check out the vid.

Parcel Styles vid

The parcel style control the line work and shading for a parcel. It controls how will the segments of the parcel look and will there be shading of the parcel and if so what kind. You can really do some great things with this style for creating right of ways that are different than parcel segments. Or you can create hydrology basins with open space parcel that have fills.
Check out the vid.

Surface Label Style

The surface label style consist of contour labels, slope labels, spot elevations and watershed labels.

Surface Styles vid

Sorry for the lag in post. I recorded four tonight and will be posting this week. This vid is surface styles vid. Could someone tell me what a user contour is?

Point Label Style vid

The Point Label Style is the labels that are attached to the point marker. The important note here is that the Point Style need to have the label turned on in order for the label style to be displayed at all.

Point Style

The Point Style settings are similar to the point styles settings from LDT.

One of the most powerful styles in Civil3D

In my opinion the label style is probably one of the most powerful styles in Civil3D. The reason being is that it has the ability to create labels for non-civil3D entities.

One of the long problems in CAD is having different scales. Say you have an overall sheet and then a blow up sheet. Some of the things shown in both sheets may need labels. So before the civil3d labels and Autocad annotation scale functionality I had to create different layers. One layer had a big label for the overall sheet and one layer had a label for the blow up. It got quite confusing.

The first time I ever saw the label style used for a generic label I could imagine why anyone would want to do such a thing. Then I saw it at work scaling and rotating. One label many different uses. This ability eliminated errors in my previous workflow. No more updating one of the two sizes label and forgetting about the other. So create label styles for water mains, curb call outs anything you want to annotate.

Shape Styles

The shape style control how the sub-assemblies look and behave.

Link Styles

Link codes are what enable sub-assemblies to connect between the frequency that you set in a corridor. For example all the back of curbs link together in a region of the corridor.

Code Set Styles Vid

The code set style is used in the corridors.

Projection Style

Sorry it took so long to get this up. I have a few recorded now so I will be posting a lot more.
Thanks for hanging in there.

So What!

Sorry it's been a while since I posted. I have the next style vid done I just don't like the audio on it so I've been trying to fix that. My desktop has tons of feedback and the laptop is just a pain. Anyway. I'm trying to figure out what to do about this blog. I'm not happy with the presentation via blogger. I don't have control over the look. I am playing around with the idea of moving it to wordpress or hosting it myself. Still think about

Other than that I am trying to figure out how to engage an audience here. So here's a thought. if you want to see anything in Civil3D or Map3D comment or email me. I'll post a vid on your question. Your own private/public training. Just let me know.

Till next time! So what do you want to see here. how can I help you.

Slope Pattern Styles

In this weeks vid we explore the slope pattern style settings.