As an Applications Expert, Dana is responsible for supporting, training, and implementation of software for survey and civil engineering professionals. Dana began her career as an AutoCAD and Civil 3D draftsperson in the civil engineering industry. She supported surveyors and engineers by managing CAD templates, assisting with preliminary design, processing field data, and creating construction documents. After a decade in production work, Dana transitioned to a CAD manager, working in both the private and public sectors. She has more than 24 years of experience helping large and small, public and private organizations in the southeastern United States.
Parking Lot Areas, Parking Layout, and Parking Row allow you to show a preliminary design without requiring much time or effort.
Use Grading Areas early in the design process to identify the best development location.
Only Surveyors use points and description keys, right? Well, no actually.
Civil 3D has a plethora of point creation methods at our disposal.
The Draw Order pull down menu, located on the Home Ribbon, gives more options that the Display Order commands in the right-click menu.
Parametric constraints are a very useful tool in AutoCAD, but some versions of the software may not display the parametric tab by default. This post gives an easy solution.
Freezing point labels may result in freezing the tree and valve symbols as well. The correct workflow is to create a Point Group that will override point labels but maintain block symbols.
As a primary, or secondary administrator for your Autodesk licenses you have the ability to move license subscriptions to separate teams.