Happy New Year, Everyone

As most of you will of noticed (particularly those from the northern hemisphere) there as been a lack of new posts in the last couple of weeks.
That’s because Christmas in the southern hemisphere is in the middle of summer and most places shut day for a month around Christmas and New Years, post the pre Christmas rust to get projects completed.

That the case I have been spending time with the family at the holiday home next to Fleur’s Restaurant in Moeraki having beautiful weather in the middle 20’s degrees Celsius (80F), fishing, diving for crayfish and Paua and with strictly no computers.

Anyway back home for a couple of days before heading south to the family farm at Tuatapere at the bottom of the South Island to give the kids the farm experience. Wishing everyone a great year.

Breakline Supplementing Distance

For Site grading I generally up the supplementing of the breaklines to add extra triangles to my surface and smooth the contours out a bit. Instead of typing the value each time you can change the default value in the settings this is where you will find it.

More Acronyms

Doing another site grading job with lots of different features building pads,ponds,swales and roads

so I am and using the featureline commands a lot.

To access the commands quicker I have added a few more keyboard shortcut acronyms to my PGP file . Round on Christmas

Quickly Removing Breaklines from a Surface

I have to credit Bryce at KarelCad with this tip that made my day.

So you have a surface with a ton of breaklines and you want to remove one from the surface but cannot remember what you called it no worries. Zoom to it in the drawing (as you know where it is) select it and press delete now type “oops” the breakline is restored to the drawing but not into the surface.

Alter the breakline as you wish.

The reason I had to do this was I had a number of breaklines from a corridor in a surface that were extracted when the corridor frequency was quite wide to make my surface better I wanted to add a lot more supplementing to the breaklines, as extracted breakline do not up the supplement when you up the corridor frequency.

Drawing Path and Name

Once and a while I want to copy a drawing path and name into another document such as a word report or excel spreadsheet this is to let others know where a model drawing is that has certain information I have used.

If you use the “dwgprefix” and “dwgname” commands the information is published to the command  line and you can copy and paste it from here to your document.

Featureline Priority

I am always referring back to this post on Featureline Priority by Mark to remind myself of what to do so I thought it maybe of interest to others

http://www.civil4d.com/2010/02/featureline-priority/

Add suffix to layers names

Reminder to myself to add a suffix or prefix to all layer names in a drawing use the rename command with the settings as follows