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Civil 3D Tips

Master Civil 3d Expressions - Add a constant to Surface Labels

In the realm of civil engineering design, precision is paramount. This blog post is your guide to mastering Elevation Label Formulas in Civil 3D... December 5, 2023 · 3 min read
Civil 3D Guides

How to Label Crossing Alignments in AutoCAD Civil 3D

In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore how to add a Label to Crossing Alignments with Profile Elevations in AutoCAD Civil 3D, demystifying this... November 21, 2023 · 3 min read
Civil 3D Tips

How to Change Elevations of COGO Points in Civil3D

Several days ago, I searched for a way to add a constant number to the Elevations of a Selected Group of COGO points in a Drawing. In short, the task was... October 11, 2022 · 1 min read
AutoCAD Guides

What is the better choice Xref or Block in AutoCAD?

Block or Xref what should we use? Blocks and Xrefs they look so similar if a person is new to AutoCAD. However, there are a lot of experienced users who... March 8, 2017 · 3 min read
AutoCAD Guides

Open or Edit In-place? How to edit our Referenced drawing?

Our journey across Xref possibilities continues with one little task many of drafters would neglect and won't spend time to learn more about it, but I... March 4, 2017 · 5 min read
AutoCAD Guides

Additional EXTRAS with Xrefs! What options do we have?

We already know why Xrefs are so useful but let's take a deeper look at what additional Extras they offer. Layers First and one of my favourite "Extras"... February 28, 2017 · 3 min read
AutoCAD Guides

Xref Attach or Overly? What is the difference?

As we continue to tear apart those Xrefs we come across Reference type . As promised in Using Xref first step! How to attach Xref? we will look at two... February 20, 2017 · 2 min read
AutoCAD Guides

Using Xref first step! How to attach Xref?

In the previous post about Xrefs we talked about the definition of external references and what are they used for. Here we will learn how to properly... February 16, 2017 · 3 min read
AutoCAD Guides

What is Xref? Why should we use it?

Since I am using Xrefs in almost every project I think that Xrefs deserve special attention, so in next few posts I will try to explain everything you... February 13, 2017 · 2 min read