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When you want to bring in a Point Cloud into Civil3D the first thing you need to do is Open the point cloud data in… Read More »Creating a Surface from Point Clouds (removing Objects above the Ground)

AutoCAD 2018 heralds a change in the drawing file format to a 2018 drawing file (.dwg) format. This is a universal change for all AutoCAD… Read More »AutoCAD 2018 & Civil 3D 2018 – Not Backwards Compatible

Open a new drawing Go to the Settings tab in the Toolspace Right click on the drawing name and click on Edit Drawing Settings. Set… Read More »How to Add Bing Maps to AutoCAD Civil3D

But before you do the Define Query there are a few things you need to do. – Make sure the original drawing has been exported… Read More »Define Map Query

We are often asked how to quickly add multiple blocks into a drawing. There are a range of tools to share information between drawings, including… Read More »Inserting Multiple Blocks

Right click on the Point Group you want to change Click on Properties Go to the Information Tab Select the Point Label Style required from… Read More »Changing Point Group Label Styles – PZD (raw) to Z45d

If you have a Ribbon Tab and you want to be able to rearrange the order of the panels because the install put them in… Read More »Re-arranging Ribbon Panel Order

Co-ordinate Shift To do a co-ordinate shift in Civil3D the easiest way is to do a move from the Arbitrary Point to the MGA zone… Read More »Civil3D Co-ord shift and Level Datum change

Remember to Copy and Paste to Original co-ordinates when you open a drawing that says it’s a “FOREIGN DWG File.  This DWG file was saved… Read More »Non Autodesk DWG File