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Have you seen this before?  This is how Civil 3D’s pipes sometimes appear before and after the current annotation scale has been changed.  Not good.

Read on to learn more…

What is the cause?  This setting in the structure style.  You will find it in the Plan tab in the style editor.

How to fix this?  There are several methods.

• Never change the scale!  Easy to say, not so easy to implement.
• Turn off that setting.  Problem is, you get this.

• Swap each structure.  Choose the same structure.  What if there are 200 of them?  Too much time.

• Grip-edit each structure and move them back onto their original positions.  Same problem as previous, too much time.
• Add a wipeout to the block being used AND turn off that setting.  Our first real potential solution.  Some users report black blobs when printing to PDF when using wipeouts, however.
• Use Project Explorer.  Select all the structures, right click, and choose the following option.  Then just click OK.  This kicks the structures in the butt and the pipes extend themselves properly.  Of course, next time the scale is changed, this must be redone but this only takes about 5 seconds.

I prefer the wipeout option because it is permanent.  No other workarounds necessary.  If this is not an option for you, then the Project Explorer trick is likely the best option.

Alignments are created in Civil 3D by selecting AutoCAD objects or by using specialized tools.  Sometimes selecting objects is appropriate, but when the alignment is required to be very flexible in terms of editability, utilizing those specialized tools can be critical.

There are three types of Alignment segments present within those specialized tools: Fixed, Floating, and Free.  The use of these tools is not always obvious, so we have created 3 video which explains the use of them.

The last of the three videos, Free Entities, can be viewed at this link or below.

Alignments are created in Civil 3D by selecting AutoCAD objects or by using specialized tools.  Sometimes selecting objects is appropriate, but when the alignment is required to be very flexible in terms of editability, utilizing those specialized tools can be critical.

There are three types of Alignment segments present within those specialized tools: Fixed, Floating, and Free.  The use of these tools is not always obvious, so we have created 3 video which explains the use of them.

The second of the three videos, Floating Entities, can be viewed at this link or below. Come back in a week or two for the next video.

This story was originally published by Eagle Point Software

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