I agree with Laurie on this one. Try to use Civil 3D as designed and you'll be much better off. Trying to get Civil 3D to act the way other programs act just because that's what's familiar is asking for a very difficult time learning Civil 3D. C3D is vastly different from those other programs and that's the best thing to remember. The civil engineering concepts are the same, what is an alignment, what is a surface, but how you create, edit, display, use,etc those things is extremely different.
Time to think outside of the balks.
Brian Hailey
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