Fun with ctrl pick in 2008!

Hi all,

Hope you have all successfully recovered from a nice long holiday weekend!

I just wanted to take a quick moment to share one of my favorite features in the 2008 product, the ctrl pick option for labels. So... lets just start with an alignment, often times you have a boat load of information in your drawing and you have to remove out one of your alignment labels, weather it be a station label or a geometry point label. I want you to try this (if you haven't already). Hold down your ctrl key and with your mouse pick the label on your alignment (for example, you can use it for parcels and other objects as well). What this is doing is selecting the individual label and if you want to change the visibility to false you can simply use the delete key or AutoCAD erase. Now in previous versions of Civil 3D you would have to select the label, right-click, go to label properties and set the label visibility to false. We can now accomplish this task in one easy step, WOO HOO!

If that is not cool enough for you I have some other ctrl pick fun news, ctrl pick a label, right-click and go into Edit Text and you now have the ability to add additional text items to a single label. You used to have to create a new label style to accomplish this task so this is a GREAT new function.

Have a great day and remember CTRL PICK, CTRL PICK, CTRL PICK!