Posted in autocad, civil3D, tagged autocad civil3D on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Sometimes we need to export our drawing files from Civil 3D to plain vanilla AutoCAD. This may be necessary for a variety of reasons: the client or another consultant doesn’t have Civil 3D and they aren’t able to install the Civil 3D Object Enabler, or you are producing an archive set and don’t want [...]
Posted in autocad, civil3D, errors, hacking on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I just ran into a giant brick wall trying to update the Civil 2008 Object Enabler for AutoCAD 2008. I first tried to install the latest OE. Not so easy, because it told me that I already had an older version installed and I needed to uninstall it first. Okay, so I [...]
Posted in autocad, blog roundup, civil3D, lisp on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
R.K. McSwain has a well-written tutorial about how to set up Paper Space Layouts.
Dave Dixon posted a quick tip on how to eliminate that huge list of annotative scales.
From the Ground Up has posted a handy LISP file for quickly changing polyline elevations.
Ward Romberger explains the usefulness (or futility) of plotting with Lines Merge.
Posted in autocad, civil3D, errors on October 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I was getting the “cannot find resource string number” xxxx “in resource AEccLand50″ error in AutoCAD 2008. The dialog box popped up when I opened a drawing, and going through about 15 of these errors (the escape key helps), the drawing opened just fine. If I closed the drawing and re-opened it, the [...]
Posted in autocad, civil3D, hacking on October 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Howdy, welcome to my new AutoCAD blog. To start things off, here’s a little hack for you. The Civil 3D 2008 splash screen reminded me of something else, so I decided to change it. Here’s the procedure:
First, download ResHack: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
Then modify C:\Program Files\AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008\acadres.dll with ResHack:
1) remove RCData:414
2) Add new [...]
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