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Message 1 of 15
Anonymous
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James Wedding, PE

I just received "Mastering Autocad Civil 3D 2008.
Does it have to be so thick?

It looks very interesting. I'll let you know how I do with each chapter?
Do you have a "cliff note" version? (kidding)


wow, 1st sentence under Acknowledgements, grammar mistake. (buzzer sound
#1)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Message 2 of 15
jwedding
in reply to: Anonymous

You're welcome to send feedback and comments to Mastering@ the first
domain below as you find problems.

Which sentence?
--
James Wedding, P.E.
Engineered Efficiency, Inc.
The Site: www.eng-eff.com
The Blog: www.civil3d.com
The Book: www.masteringcivil3d.com
C3D SP2 Mac Book Pro, XP SP2, 3GB
Message 3 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

1st sentence under acknowledgements.


"This book is a team effort, with more authors than on are the front cover."

I'm not the most grammar correct person either.



wrote in message news:5904413@discussion.autodesk.com...
You're welcome to send feedback and comments to Mastering@ the first
domain below as you find problems.

Which sentence?
--
James Wedding, P.E.
Engineered Efficiency, Inc.
The Site: www.eng-eff.com
The Blog: www.civil3d.com
The Book: www.masteringcivil3d.com
C3D SP2 Mac Book Pro, XP SP2, 3GB
Message 4 of 15
jwedding
in reply to: Anonymous

Wow. All those editors and reviews for naught.
--
James Wedding, P.E.
Engineered Efficiency, Inc.
The Site: www.eng-eff.com
The Blog: www.civil3d.com
The Book: www.masteringcivil3d.com
C3D SP2 Mac Book Pro, XP SP2, 3GB
Message 5 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I missed that one also.
funny. 🙂
Message 6 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Well, maybe they are Amish, and this is their quilt. 🙂

--
Joshua Tapp

wrote in message news:5904738@discussion.autodesk.com...
Wow. All those editors and reviews for naught.
--
James Wedding, P.E.
Engineered Efficiency, Inc.
The Site: www.eng-eff.com
The Blog: www.civil3d.com
The Book: www.masteringcivil3d.com
C3D SP2 Mac Book Pro, XP SP2, 3GB
Message 7 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Y'know, I had to read it about six times before I saw it...

--
Kate Morrical
AutoCAD LT Technical Marketing Manager


wrote in message news:5904738@discussion.autodesk.com...
Wow. All those editors and reviews for naught.
--
James Wedding, P.E.
Engineered Efficiency, Inc.
The Site: www.eng-eff.com
The Blog: www.civil3d.com
The Book: www.masteringcivil3d.com
C3D SP2 Mac Book Pro, XP SP2, 3GB
Message 8 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Me too.
I read it and my eyes and thoughts were all screwy.
I'll let you all know how good sentence (2) is tomorrow.

I just need T.I.M.E. to start this.

"Kate M" wrote in message
news:5905120@discussion.autodesk.com...
Y'know, I had to read it about six times before I saw it...

--
Kate Morrical
AutoCAD LT Technical Marketing Manager


wrote in message news:5904738@discussion.autodesk.com...
Wow. All those editors and reviews for naught.
--
James Wedding, P.E.
Engineered Efficiency, Inc.
The Site: www.eng-eff.com
The Blog: www.civil3d.com
The Book: www.masteringcivil3d.com
C3D SP2 Mac Book Pro, XP SP2, 3GB
Message 9 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Careful, Owen is listening.

Joshua Tapp
|>Well, maybe they are Amish, and this is their quilt. 🙂
|>
|>--
|>Joshua Tapp
|>
|> wrote in message news:5904738@discussion.autodesk.com...
|>Wow. All those editors and reviews for naught.
James Maeding
Civil Engineer and Programmer
jmaeding - at - hunsaker - dotcom
Message 10 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Blame it on Jickey.

wrote in message news:5904738@discussion.autodesk.com...
Wow. All those editors and reviews for naught.
--
James Wedding, P.E.
Engineered Efficiency, Inc.
The Site: www.eng-eff.com
The Blog: www.civil3d.com
The Book: www.masteringcivil3d.com
C3D SP2 Mac Book Pro, XP SP2, 3GB
Message 11 of 15
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

> Careful, Owen is listening.


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Owen Wengerd
President, ManuSoft <>
VP Americas, CADLock, Inc. <>
Message 12 of 15
joesg55
in reply to: Anonymous

James-

I have 12 years of civil microstation experience.  -  and some basic autocad.

How long takes to learn  civil3d  and be productive,  pass the certification exams...

Are you familiar with Rick Ellis,  dvd course on cd3 ?

 

Message 13 of 15
JamesMaeding
in reply to: joesg55

learning time on c3d depends on if you understand other civil progs. If just "mapping" skills from one to the other, less time.

The wonderful thing about C3D is that the more you know it, the more workarounds you must invent.

I'm still wondering how to deal with data reference objects that I need for design, in a base file, but do not want them xreffed to the sheets. You can make no-show, or freeze, but they still cause the "synchronizing references" activity in the sheets whish majorly slows things down. I currently just dref surfaces, do things with them using tools we wrote, then detach.

How in the world do people work that must keep the surfaces attached to bases?


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Message 14 of 15
lsimms1
in reply to: JamesMaeding

you keep 1 "base" drawing that is 2d, and has no references in it.  Then x-ref that drawing into others to create your surfaces, profiles etc.  The "plot drawings" pretty much just have the 2d base plus the data shortcuts required for each.

Almost need a flow chart so you don't end up with circular references.

This really sounds more confusing than it is.

Message 15 of 15
JamesMaeding
in reply to: lsimms1

well, the root problem is the idea of sharing data via an object in a drawing.

Those objects are heavy, and load on open, not just when you need them.

Almost any other system would work better, Autodesk should have loked at this closer in the beginning, but was so caught up in the idea of dynamic objects, that sharing issues were left unattended. Now we have this conflict.

The answer is to make data external, and available, but not accessed til needed.

So maybe share data via some different type of attachment, not xref, and not dref.

Then allow users to make objects from data if desired.

Most of the time, data is invisible though (labeling of elevations in plan, profiles are not present for grading plans).


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