LDDT Utilities in Civil 3d 2010 - Replace Blocks

[ghowell2019]

Any help would be greatly appreciate . . . I want to replace some, but not all instances of a specific block in my drawing.

I used to use LD - Utilities - Blocks - Replace Block. This was handy in that I could pick and choose certain instances of a block and just replace those . . .

. . . this is (and always has been) different from the Express menu's Replace block with another block - that has always replaced all blocks of a certain name with another chosen block. I can't redfine the block either - same problem - all are then updated.

Is there a new way to do this? Or am I going to have to take it back to 2006 Land Desktop to get this feature?

This is just one of the many Land Destop "Utilities" that I miss in 2010.

Thanks for any ideas on this.

gloria h.

[Anonymous]

CUT the blocks you want to swap (and the replacement) and paste to a blank
drawing. Do the block replace. Copy and paste back to the original file.

--

Matt Kolberg
GCS - A Division of Cansel

[Anonymous]

Great post Matt,

Nice out of the box thinking.

Dan

[ghowell2019]

Crude, but effective. I keep forgeting to go back to the old basics. I'll learn to beat this software one way or another. Thank goodness I still remember keyboard commands . . .

thanks for the quick fix!

gloria h.

[Sinc]

What are some of the "many Land Desktop utilities" that you miss?

I've been using C3D for a few years now, and I can only think of a few features from Land Desktop that I miss.

Now, we've pretty much completely changed many of our office processes, and practically nothing is done in the same way as we used to with Land Desktop. It took a while to get all those new procedures developed an in-place. But now, we generally find C3D works much better, on average.

-- Sinc
http://www.ejsurveying.com
http://www.quuxsoft.com

[Anonymous]

Why thank you.

--

Matt Kolberg
GCS - A Division of Cansel

style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">

<
href="mailto:dgordon@preinnewhof.com">dgordon@preinnewhof.com> wrote in
message
href="news:6264234@discussion.autodesk.com">news:6264234@discussion.autodesk.com...

Great
post Matt,

Nice out of the box
thinking.

Dan

[peterfunkautodesk]

Sinc,

Great question. As the keeper of the wish list for Civil 3D I would love to hear about the "many Land Desktop utilities" that you miss.

Regards,

Peter Funk
Autodesk, Inc.

[Anonymous]

Mr. Steltman please don't read this...

Daylight Polyline.

That's my 'many' at least for now.

;)

John

wrote in message news:6264381@discussion.autodesk.com...
Sinc,

Great question. As the keeper of the wish list for Civil 3D I would love to
hear about the "many Land Desktop utilities" that you miss.

Regards,

Peter Funk
Autodesk, Inc.

[cadtown]

But can you not do that with the feature line (from polyline) and grading object ?

[Anonymous]

Yes, but occasionally the grading just refuses to do it. The simple nature
of the daylight polyline routine makes it nearly foolproof, though not as
accurate.

--

Matt Kolberg
GCS - A Division of Cansel


wrote in message news:6264650@discussion.autodesk.com...
But can you not do that with the feature line (from polyline) and grading
object ?

[Anonymous]

Agreed Matt.

It's the same process you would use with a grading object without having to
create a grading object and then exploding it.

--
John Mayo, PE

Core i7 920 6GB DDR3
Radeon 4870HD 1 GB
Vista64

[jmayo-EE]

I should add that Robert Steltman's software (www.RSteltman.com) does this very well in C3D with Feature lines, 2 & 3d polys, etc.

John