Do your Civil 3D drawings feel cluttered and overcrowded? Overly detailed elevation labels can overwhelm your drawings, making them difficult to read and interpret. Fortunately, there’s a simple solution to declutter your drawings and improve their overall clarity: displaying only the last two digits of spot elevations. There are many benefits of abbreviating Elevation Labels, … Read more
One of the most frightening situations I’ve encountered using AutoCAD is seeing the error: One or more objects in this drawing cannot be saved to the specified format. The operation was not completed and no file was created. There is nothing worse than not being able to save your work and having to rely on … Read more
Do you need to extract Points with Elevations from simple Line Objects? Or you need to create a Surface from Line Objects? Well, this was my task today, I needed to create points that have Assigned Elevations and a TIN Surface using Line Objects with Start Z and End Z properties. We will look at … Read more
Duplicate information might be useful sometimes, but in most of the cases, it makes the understanding of our data hard and not usable. Here we will take a look at how to easily spot Duplicate Data and Remove it from our Excel Spreadsheet! Highlight Duplicate Cells First, we are going to look at How to … Read more
Polylines are one of the most frequently used objects in AutoCAD. I personally can’t imagine working without using one, that is why it is really important for all drafters to know how to edit them as fast as they can. One of the common tasks for us while working with polylines is to remove an existing … Read more
Two of the most commonly used commands by me are Bring to Front and Send to Back. This is because our drawings oftentimes are overcrowded, and they can become hard to understand. By using display settings we can make our drawings more readable and professional looking. The problem with these commands is that there is no … Read more
Are you trying to convert Text to Mtext Without any Formatting? I was trying to do just that a lot of times and finally, I found a solution! Here we will take a look at it. The reason why I wanted to convert several Text objects to single line Mtext objects is that I wanted to … Read more