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AutoCAD Civil 3D has blurred the lines between who is a draftsperson and who is an engineer. AutoCAD tips and techniques can often be very helpful when working in Civil 3D, but many engineers may h...  Read more

Tip#: 4570
Author: Dean Petersen
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Published on: 04-Jan-2016
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Have you ever had to hand draw objects into your profile or section views for reference in Civil 3D? Now thanks to Civil 3D's Project Objects to Profile View and Project Objects to Section View...  Read more

Tip#: 4554
Author: R.T. Rinehart
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Published on: 19-Oct-2015
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This tip is to give you more control when grip editing the revision cloud made from a polygon in AutoCAD 2016.  With the revision cloud in place, start the RevCloud command and use the Object ...  Read more

Tip#: 4553
Author: Kent Elrod
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Published on: 19-Oct-2015
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AutoCAD 2016 introduced an improved revision cloud and with it comes a new system variable, RevCloudGrips.  The revision cloud made when that system variable is set to On will allow you to gri...  Read more

Tip#: 4552
Author: Kent Elrod
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Published on: 19-Oct-2015
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Raymond Rizkallah submits a tiny but very useful routine. If you work with multiple drawings at the same time and they are in various UCSs, this is the routine for you. This allows you to copy and ...  Read more

Tip#: 4542
Author: Raymond Rizkallah
Rename File To: ABSOLUTE-CopyPaste.LSP
Published on: 21-Sep-2015
Downloads: 420
Rating:
5
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Kent Cooper has come up with a very nice routine for drawing flexible conduit or ducting. The image below illustrates how the command works with various object types. If you use an existing object ...  Read more

Tip#: 4541
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: FlexSpline.lsp
Published on: 21-Sep-2015
Downloads: 1248
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Long-time contributor Raymond Rizkallah has created this routine that will allow you to create various shaped revision clouds that are automatically placed on a unique layer whose name is composed ...  Read more

Tip#: 4540
Author: Raymond Rizkallah
Rename File To: DATED-CLOUDS.lsp
Published on: 21-Sep-2015
Downloads: 323
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Frequent tipster Kent Cooper is back with yet another solution from a request via the Autodesk forums. MultiLineCloseOpen.lsp includes two commands, MLC and MLO.  MLC stands for MultiLine Clos...  Read more

Tip#: 4539
Author: Kent Cooper
Rename File To: MultilineCloseOpen.lsp
Published on: 21-Sep-2015
Downloads: 211
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Typically AutoCAD's Burst command is used to explode blocks with attributes, converting the attributes to text. But if you explode a block where objects inside the block are set to layer 0, the...  Read more

Tip#: 4528
Author: Matt Sibum
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Published on: 24-Aug-2015
Downloads: 0
Rating:
4
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This routine from Leland creates the command E3, used for AutoCAD Civil 3D only. It will open up the correct properties or editing command depending on the object selected. For example, if you sele...  Read more

Tip#: 4505
Author: Leland Leahy
Rename File To: e3.lsp
Published on: 13-Jul-2015
Downloads: 287
Rating:  Not Yet Rated