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!

ADMS Patch

Good news everyone!

They have released the patch that will allow the 2007 vault to work with the 2008 ADMS!

Here it is... http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=9662033&linkID=9240698

Hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

Resetting your structure label numbers

Hello Hello,

I am truly sorry it has been such a long time since my last post. What a slacker I have been on blogging these days. My main excuse for my lack of "blogging" is that Civil 3D Implementations are taking off. I am busier now with Civil 3D then I have EVER been and I am loving it :)

During my trials and tribulations out in the real world I can across an issue that many of my clients have been wondering "How in the heck to I reset my numbering for my structures in a Pipe Network"? What I mean by this statement is if you have created a Pipe Network with some structures in it the numbering usually starts at (1) for your first structure (2) for your second and so on. If you happen to delete a couple of Structures and create new ones you will have gaps in your structure numbers because Civil 3D does NOT automatically re-start your numbering. Of course you can go into the Structure Properties and re-name your structure, but I am going to show you how you can set than numbering back.

On your prospector tab select the Pipe Network right-click and go to Properties. While in your Pipe Network Properties dialog box select the Layout tab (see image below)

If you hit the icon just to the right of the text Structure - (<[Next Counter(CP)]>) it will bring up a Name Template dialog box that will allow you to reset your starting number.

Hope you find this beneficial :)

Have a great day!