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.