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Plant Production Tool and Map Books!!!

Hi everybody... Last Friday Jan 4, I saw a really interesting webcast that Autodesk had for Civil 3D where Lucy Kuhns and Jerry Bartels did an excellent presentation about how the Plant Production Tool and the Map Books functionality that are built in Civil 3D 2008 could help you to improve your efficiency and productivity when you are creating a large set of sheets... so in case that you missed it, the section is recorded and abeilable for review...

Working with Survey Database…

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Hi everybody… Happy New year to all of you!!! Check this out…probably some of you had come across these questions; Can I change my working folder?? (and when I talk about working folder I mean the C:\Civil 3D Projects , where all my Survey Data is stored by default) and also How could I standardize my Survey User Settings so I don’t need to do it every time that I create a new one??... Well, here are some tips…. New survey databases automatically save to the current working folder (in the prospector tab, given that you are working on your Master View, right click on 'projects' and select 'set working folder' ). And browse for your new location that can be on your same computer or in a special place on your network. The only survey databases you can open are the ones located immediately under the current working folder. Also you can set your Survey Database Settings on the same location … First create a Survey Database with your common settings, like Units, Precision, ...