from Civil to Inventor

The Autodesk enthusiast exile

We moved !!

Join us at the new host site

I am hosting my own site and blog now.  It has been my desire to create a site that has better content, news, information and benefit to the Autodesk Design and Manufacturing community.  More storage and flexibility was required.  This site will be discontinued over time.

The new Blog “Design and Motion” can be found here:

http://designandmotion.net/blog

The main site will be developed as time progresses

Please follow me on the new twitter address: 

http://twitter.com/johnevansdesign

March 11, 2010 Posted by | AUGI, Autodesk | , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Civil 3D – Stop using context menu for Major Style Edits

This option costs me SOOOOO much time every day.  Well, that and not saving valuable changes to my template.  So in tune with James’ famous PLEASE STOP posts, I’ll post some of my own now and then, mostly for my own sake.  Perhaps I’ll save a few of you some frustration.

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Editing a style by selection through a Right Click Context menu is such a cool, convenient option, right. So much so, that faced with a large amount of style tuning, I’ll pick it anyhow.  JUST STOP!!  Break the habit.

Why?

Here’s the thing.  It all revolves around this magic button.

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March 1, 2010 Posted by | 2010, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Autodesk, Label Styles | , , , , , | 1 Comment