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Recently I started working on Map Books for one of our customers. That's really just code for a big sheet set where each sheet displays a different area of a map. So, I started…
March 11, 2011 · 1 min read
AutoCAD is flexible. There are few restrictions on the number of entities, layers, or text styles in a drawing. A line can exist at any elevation (z value) with any color and…
February 25, 2011 · 2 min read
Many engineering firms are built around the idea of “get the plans out the door.” That’s how they make their money. That’s what everybody rallies around. But what happens once the…
December 22, 2010 · 1 min read
I'm going to expand on what makes Topobase different than a lot of the products in the Autodesk lineup. If you have are completely unfamiliar with Topobase, you might want to read…
November 30, 2010 · 2 min read
Now that we've seen how to translate point files and drawings from one coordinate system to another, let's take a look at another option, translating data sources. Feature Data…
November 11, 2010 · 1 min read
As Drew started talking about in his post Death of the Draftsman , with new software implementation, we have to reevaluate the entire way that we think about software. When…
November 4, 2010 · 2 min read
Part 1 looked at the coordinate transformation of points in Civil 3D. Continuing on the theme of coordinate systems, now we'll take a look at performing a coordinate transformation…
October 26, 2010 · 2 min read
The Autodesk University conference and exhibition brings together Autodesk users, developers, executives, solution providers, and strategic partners from around the world this year…
October 23, 2010 · 1 min read
Continuing in the spirit of my last post, I'd like to work my way up to the question of "What Is Topobase?" To begin with, let's revisit AutoCAD Map3D, Autodesk's GIS program…
October 21, 2010 · 3 min read
I distinctly remember the answer to a question that my professor asked one day in grad school. Too bad I don’t remember the question. It was somewhere along the lines of "Why…
October 20, 2010 · 2 min read
Navisworks has hidden options that can be accessed through the Options Editor with a command switch. To set the switch, right-click on the Options Editor shortcut, then click…
October 11, 2010 · 1 min read
Maybe you have seen this article before: Google Interview Questions that Were at One Time Used by Microsoft and Might Not Really Even be Used at Google It's as the internet hive…
October 7, 2010 · 2 min read
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