Shhh, Hide me! How to Hide Parts of Drawing?

Hide parts of drawing AutoCAD

Hiding objects in AutoCAD Why would we want to hide something already drawn? Well, there are numerous times we need to hide parts of our drawing. Of course, the easy solution is to delete the objects, however, sometimes this is not a solution.For example: We have an image or pdf and we want to hide … Read more

Setting up Custom Station Labels for Profile View in Civil 3D

Custom station labels in Profile bands

We’ve already discussed how to add custom stations along an Alignment and then how to set up Alignment and Sample Line Labels so we can have fully working custom stations along our Alignments. Today we are going to look at how to set up Profile view bands for Station Equations and Sample Lines, so we can … Read more

Setting up Alignment and Sample Line Labels in Civil 3d

Set up alignment and sample line labels

This post is in support of the previous post about Adding custom stations along Alignment in Civil 3D. Today we are going to look at how to set up the Alignment labels. Since the process of setting up labels in Civil 3d is almost equal for most of the objects, we will look closely how to create … Read more

How to Add Custom Stations Along Alignment in Civil 3D.

Adding custom stations along alignment

Alignment objects Alignment objects are one of the most important parts of Civil 3D drawing. They can represent road centerlines, pipe networks, etc. Creating and defining an alignment is one of the first things we have to do in order to create our roadway, railroad or site design. To create an alignment we usually use the … Read more

How to Split Polyline into a number of Segments or at Intervals?

Split polylines into equal segments

Divide/Break Objects How to Split Polyline into equal segments? How to Divide a Line into 3 parts? Can I split a circle into for example 5 arcs? How to Break a Polyline into 3? Is it possible to Break a line at an interval? Today we are answering these and every other question related to … Read more

Bring Back Deleted Objects in AutoCAD!

The Problem It is a common problem to select and delete an object by accident and realize that the object is missing after you have done some more things on your drawing. Other situation would be if you have deleted something and after a little time you realize that it would be good to have your … Read more

Can’t Select More Than One Object (AutoCAD gone wild!)

Select objects is not working properly

Objects select is not working properly I bet everyone has had this problem. You are trying to select objects one by one, but oops, there is something wrong with selecting. Only the last object is selected. The other problem you might have is trying to deselect an object using shift + left click, but AutoCAD doesn’t … Read more

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