Sometimes when you get a newer better car, you have to clean out the trunk
on the old one. Or when you buy a new house, you still have to pack up and
move, and reorganize.
Is that progress? That depends on what your goals are.
Technology is a changing animal. If you build your operation on it, then you
will have to expect several significant changes during a lifetime of a
career, and plan for them. Budget, time, effort, motivation all that goes
into it. It's the cost of running a business.
"Keith Biggs" wrote in message
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I have been using the Symbol Manager from the days of Softdesk, so I have
built up quite a large library of blocks. Since Symbol Manager is not
included in Civil 3D, my only option is to recreate this functionality using
Tool Palettes. I have hard time justifying this effort, which is required as
a result of upgrading our software to a better and more advanced product
than Land Desktop, or is it? Granted, the design functionality is better,
however, for drawing production it is lacking. This means we have to use
both products to produce our contract drawings. Is this progress?
Keith Biggs
"Jason Hickey" wrote in message
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MH wrote:
> Are there any toolbars or simple commands to insert barscales, north
> arrow, borders, and misc. symbols without having to insert as a block?
> Something similar to Eaglepoint drafting module.
If you've got Land Desktop Companion, here's a workable solution:
http://beneaththelines.blogspot.com/2006/03/whered-my-symbol-manager-go.html#links
Maybe one day the development team will include symbol manager in C3D.
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Jason Hickey
Civil 3D 2007, SP1A
Dell Precision M70
2 GIG RAM, 256 MB nVidia Quadro FX Go1400
Intel Centrino 2 gHz Processor
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