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I’m so old school that shift-right click is how I access my OSnap choices and then F3 to turn on/off. Since I’m drawing survey maps, I use the node choice a lot because I’ve got the surveyor’s field points in my drawing. Thanks Brandon for the video!
Thank you Brandon, always the best at this. Just learnt about the shortcut for stretch, add vertex and convert to line/curve. The other osnap shortcut menu I normally use is (whenever in a command, I press down the shift or ctr button and right click my mouse button to choose an osnap I need at that particular moment
I would like to see a video on best practices for importing shape files. Maybe explain the differences between .shx and .shp, and landXML. Which of these files are best for importing surfaces? I made a .dwg file from a surface that I had imported from a landxml file using MAPIMPORT. I then cropped the surface and saved it as both a landxml and a .dwg. Now, which cropped file is best to import into my new drawing, the CroppedSurface.dwg or the CroppedSurface_lamdxml? Maybe explain what each file contains. Do they both contain elevations as well as State-Plane coordinates as well as correct x-y coordinates?
Civil 3D question. I discovered that my 1:1 scale was incorrect. it was set to 1 inch = 1 Foot versus the correct values of: 12" of paper-units equaling 1-foot ModelSpace. Autodesk tells me that the scale is only an Annotation scale, and it does not affect any geometry. That said, my section-views derived from my corridors are generating at 12x scale. The sub-assemblies are drawn in modelspace at the correct full-scale dimensions, but the sub assemblies measure in feet on the section views, where they should measure in inches. My units are set to Engineering, and my insertion scale is set to inches. I tried to change my insertion scale to feet, and a dialog box warned me that Engineering Units should be set to use an insertion scale set to inches as a standard practice.,
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Hi, Is that AutoCad Fundamentals & Workflow course tutorial are in a video format which i can watch again ?
I’m so old school that shift-right click is how I access my OSnap choices and then F3 to turn on/off. Since I’m drawing survey maps, I use the node choice a lot because I’ve got the surveyor’s field points in my drawing. Thanks Brandon for the video!
Thank you Brandon, always the best at this. Just learnt about the shortcut for stretch, add vertex and convert to line/curve.
The other osnap shortcut menu I normally use is (whenever in a command, I press down the shift or ctr button and right click my mouse button to choose an osnap I need at that particular moment
That's great!! Thanks for watching and glad I was able to share a new trick
Cheers!
I would like to see a video on best practices for importing shape files. Maybe explain the differences between .shx and .shp, and landXML. Which of these files are best for importing surfaces? I made a .dwg file from a surface that I had imported from a landxml file using MAPIMPORT. I then cropped the surface and saved it as both a landxml and a .dwg. Now, which cropped file is best to import into my new drawing, the CroppedSurface.dwg or the CroppedSurface_lamdxml? Maybe explain what each file contains. Do they both contain elevations as well as State-Plane coordinates as well as correct x-y coordinates?
Civil 3D question. I discovered that my 1:1 scale was incorrect. it was set to 1 inch = 1 Foot versus the correct values of: 12" of paper-units equaling 1-foot ModelSpace. Autodesk tells me that the scale is only an Annotation scale, and it does not affect any geometry. That said, my section-views derived from my corridors are generating at 12x scale. The sub-assemblies are drawn in modelspace at the correct full-scale dimensions, but the sub assemblies measure in feet on the section views, where they should measure in inches. My units are set to Engineering, and my insertion scale is set to inches. I tried to change my insertion scale to feet, and a dialog box warned me that Engineering Units should be set to use an insertion scale set to inches as a standard practice.,