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.