Fall FLUG event

The Fall FLUG event in Tampa Florida for November 20-22 is open for registration. Plenty of Autodesk Civil 3D 2014 sessions and Labs available. I'll be teaching 3 sessions and 1 Lab on FDOT Drainage/Grading and Cross Sections. Check the site out and register/attend if you can click on the agenda to browse the course listings, some come with continuing education credits. If you have never attended a FLUG it is always a good time. There is free beer and food at the social on the 21st. How can you go wrong with FREE BEER.

http://www.flugsite.com/

NEW FDOT Civil 3D 2014 Webinars scheduled

Don't forget we have NEW FDOT Civil 3D 2014 Webinars Scheduled. Register today! Follow the link below and Look at the bottom for the FDOT Autodesk section

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/ecso/downloads/GoToMeetingTraining/ScheduledWebinars.shtm

Florida DOT Webinar on Pavement Marking Tools for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 (FREE)

I will be giving the FIRST of many weekly webinars within our office on The FDOT AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 State Kit. Click on the link below to register. It is scheduled for Tuesday October 15th from 9-10am EST. We will have other webinars scheduled very soon and they will be on FDOT material and also general Civil 3D usage. It's taken us a while to get to this point, but now it will be worth it. You can also download the 2014 State kit for Free to install on top of your existing AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 installation.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/218164922

The Florida DOT AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 State Kit is Here!!

Released Today. The official AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 state kit that can be used for FDOT Transportation project submittals. Download it for free and install it on top of your existing Civil 3D 2014 install.

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/ecso/downloads/software/FDOT2014CADDSoftware.shtm

Sneak Peak at the Autodesk University 2013 Course Schedule......

Here is a link to the first sneak peek of the course schedule for this years Autodesk University in Las Vegas

http://au.typepad.com/au/2013/08/au-2013-class-catalog-preview-now-available.html

AutoCAD and Civil 3D resources from our Website

We at the Florida DOT  ECSO office are actively working on populating our AutoCAD and Civil 3D workflow and resource section. It's far from complete, but here is a link so you can check in often. You can also find my contact information there also if you have a question or suggestion

Randy Roberts

Look under Office Resources > More > CADD Links to see the listings. We are also working on putting webinars together featuring our State kit for Civil 3D 2014. I'll keep you posted.

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/ecso/default.shtm

New FDOT Civil 3D 2014 State Kit Beta Version is now released

Just accept the Beta disclaimer to go to the download page.

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/ecso/downloads/software/FDOT2014C3DBetaDisclaimer.shtm

Change Grip Mode with Spacebar

When simply clicking on a grip when an object is highlighted you automatically go into the stretch command. Press the space bar and you go into the move command. Press it again and you go into rotate, again for scale, and again for mirror.

 

New Coordinate Zone Display in 2014

In Civil 3D 2014 along the bottom right corner of your screen next to the current annotation scale there is a display of what coordinate zone your drawing is currently in. The Red push pin to the left is the Geographic Marker which most of the time you will want to turn off.

Deleting Duplicate Objects

You just received a file from a third party and it has duplicate objects drawn on top of each other on different layers (a survey traverse as an example…) Type in “Overkill” on the command line< select or window your objects in question< Enter

For example let’s say that one of the items is on a layer that you want to keep. When the DDO dialog box appears select the layer option and as long as that layer is current it will delete all of the other objects except for the current layer’s object.

Reverse a Polyline with text in AutoCAD

Probably my favorite entity in AutoCAD is the polyline. However, there have been a few things that I've found somewhat annoying, one of which is controlling the direction of polylines.

Normally the direction of polylines makes little difference, but for some purposes it can be important, linetype text is oriented in line with the direction of the line segment, so if the polyline flows from right to left, as opposed to left to right the text will appear upside down. as shown in the figures.

Reversing the vertices in a polyline has historically been around since 2010, but I hear a lot of people today ask about the upside down text and how to fix it. Simply enter the REVERSE command by either typing it, or selecting it from the Home ribbon, and select the polyline you want to reverse.

This command can also be used on a few other entities, namely LINE, SPLINE, and HELIX entities.

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Swap Multiple Parts in Civil 3D

You have just finished a lengthy drainage design and the reviewer wants you to change out some structures to a certain type and have you change a pipe size on 10 pipes to a size bigger well that is easy now with our own FDOT tool called swap parts. Out of the box Civil 3D only allows you to swap one part at a time. So in this case we will launch the Swap Parts located on the FDOT Ribbon.

After Selecting all of the structures and pipes you need to change press enter and the swap parts dialog parts box pops up. It populates with the current parts list that you are using, which in this case is the FDOT Drainage parts list. Make all of your edits and select ok. Presto… all of your structures and pipes change.

You can find our State Kit for Civil 3D 2012 here. We should have a beta version out in June of the state kit for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014.

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/ecso/downloads/publications/civil3dworkflows/

New Autodesk Logo

Autodesk has redesigned their Logo going Forward and will re brand all of their products with new logos for their respective 2014 releases.

Florida DOT News!!

I am very pleased to announce the first release of the Florida DOT AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 State Kit will be released April 1st 2013. It has been in Beta for a few years and we have been working hard at improving and adding our own tools that we developed for the micro station platform. What this means is that version 1.0 will allow consultants to design and submit projects using the Civil 3D platform.

We will also in July release the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014 version of the State Kit.

The current Beta version for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 is free and will install on top of your existing AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 version. Click on the link below.

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/ecso/downloads/publications/civil3dworkflows/