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Auto Cad: 1 - Select all polylines 2 - Press at once: Ctrl+Shift+C 3 - Choose a base point with your mouse 4 - Press at once: Ctrl+Shift+V If You want them back to polyline: 1 - Select the block 2 - Type in the command bar: expload I hope I helped!

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No I wasn't joking. If you are a company using outside sources to produce content then it is your responsibility to ensure that such content was produced legally otherwise don't work with them or for them. It's called corporate responsibility which seems to be lacking in this day and age. It is not unethical to protect one's intellectual property rights unless you live in China or Russia. There are a couple of ways to remove the EDU stamp from a drawing but I am not going to tell you how to do it but the information is out there for anyone with the time, patience and need to find it. Why did you feel the need to resurrect a thread from 2016? If you want to vent then send a letter of complaint to AutoDesk. But don't hold your breath waiting for a reply.

@steven-g +1. You are well known to be a wizard of LT and inclined to find clever ways to coax it into doing things it is not designed to do! I used to always edit my customizations at the very bottom section of the PGP, but done this way, that is where they go by default, so that at a later date they will migrate with an upgrade to a newer version.

You can add a command alias to your pgp file so you only need type an apostrophe folowed by a single keyboard letter, so at the end of the pgp file add this (I just picked 'K' because 'C' is used so often for other things. K, *CAL So when you want to use the CAL command transparently you only need type 'K unfortunately you cannot add K, *'CAL as an alias the apostrophy isn't accepted as a valid entry, but using something like 'K still saves 50% of your keypresses. You do need to run the REINIT command after you save the pgp file to make changes to your pgp file available to use. Or you could create a new command in the CUI 'CAL and run it from an icon in your ribbon or a toolpalette with a single mouse click (but that might not be any quicker if you have to move the mouse to an icon everytime you need it.

Well you learn something new every day Google 'ExtractContour CIV3D help Not sure why when you can use the aecexporttoautocad command, trying to remember the exact wording need to go in and look it up used it before more options than just contours. depends on what is displayed. Grid lines there is a grid option in Civ3d now where is it I think in the add points to surface options look in ribbon. Hmmmm Google "grid CIV3D help" Need togo exploring again.

Try this.....Ray sheet 1.pdf

This is a large response, so.. apologies in advance. A true workflow at a firm like this depends on the extent of the project and the requirements of the client. From what I've seen in the past, most design firms have their own, kind of, niche market(s) - whether that be bridge design, residential/housing developments, DOT road and highway projects or large scale structural designs for stadiums and large aircraft hangars, bulk fuels storage, etc... With some firms hiring hundreds of people to handle a variety of different disciplines as needed by the requirements of the client and the types of projects they plan to take on. A firm can kind of expand out into other areas like doing their own testing, soil sampling, and hiring engineers for specific niche design stuff like runway design, storm water system redesigns, .... To make the firm capable of handling design work for projects that require those kinds of niche skillsets to complete a project. But, from what I've seen, in most cases design firms will generally only expand out to the extent deemed immediately needed to support of it's primary source of work. So, for example, for DOT highway projects a company contracted to do the design work might hire engineers to handle environmental permitting, writing SWPPP's, erosion control, doing fish and plant field studies for projects requiring environmental permitting, or even hiring its own survey crews to do field work instead of farming it out to a subcontractor. Stuff like roads and highways might be a bad example here because the requirements can be complex... But it is a good example of how some firms approach the design for a project. The design will, essentially, pass through many people's hands with each doing their own design work for a specific portion of the project and the drafting staff just putting it together to meet the drawing standards of the client. In many cases, at least for roads and highways, the drafters don't do much design work, specifically. For architectural work for a "Drafter" it is much more straightforward. The Client determines their needs and provides either a rough sketch or a rough statement of work that clarifies their needs and wants. Do they already own the property they plan to build on? What kind of timescale do they expect to have a final product in their hands? Some of those questions need to be answered so that you can provide an accurate quote. Your quote should be based on an hourly rate. Estimate the time it will take to complete the project given your own skill level based on an 8 hour work day. A reasonable hourly rate for your skill level - that's kind of ambiguous - but I can tell you that starting out as a freelance drafter 16 years ago my rate was 42/hour (obviously, different these days). Also, you should clarify how you are doing this math in the quote document, itself, so everyone is on the same page. And make sure all parties sign the proposal document for your own record keeping and invoicing purposes later on down the line. As a drafter, working with your client is critical and asking questions to clarify things and coming up with alternative options along the way is pretty standard. If the project is in a municipality or city the requirements are usually spelled out by the local building department what needs to be drafted to meet their minimum requirements to get them to stamp your project approved. Here in Fairbanks, Alaska the local building department requires a site plan, foundation plan, foundation/footing details, floor plan, all 4 elevation drawings, a roof plan and at least 2 cross sections of the building. The drawing set gets sent to the building department for a stamp that can require 1 or 2 weeks. But I usually leave the permitting up to the client to handle unless they specifically request my assistance. In some cases you may need to have a building permit maintained on site and not having one can incur steep fines. So I always convey this to the client too. And, in some cases there are some engineering requirements that need to be taken into account that you may need to be aware of for your local area. The roof load requirements for snow load are also clearly stated on the website (50 psf is normal here) so for us its important to keep that in mind up here when building in the city limits. All design work you do is not meant to be 100% accurate as it is conceptual only. But the builders will use the set to construct the building so you always have to keep that in mind. In many cases I will provide even more information than is required just for the sake of the client. Like window/door schedules so they can order those as early as possible. Your client would also need to acquire a dig permit so they may need direction on what to do and where to go in that regard. The good thing about taking on a project like this as a "Drafter" and not an "Engineer" is that you and your client have an understanding on what your responsibilities are when both parties are taking on the project. So you can help point things out and assist the client in making their own decisions but you are basically there to produce a set of drawings and nothing else. This doesn't mean you have no say in the design. You might have ideas or ways of solving a design problem that the client hasn't considered. Or you might have a way to make a space more architecturally appealing in some way that the client may want to include in the design - like a lofted coffin truss in a living room to give it more character or an idea for accent lighting in a specific room - there are many examples. But cost is always going to be important for the client. So it's something you have to keep in mind when proposing these kinds of changes (You aren't designing a new Taj mahal). -ChriS

It's normally located under this link of your own PC: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared" Look for the file "acadauto.chm". You'll find all the methods and the parameters each one takes.

Before 'Mid Between 2 Points' was added to the 'Object Snap Cursor Menu' _none;'CAL;(cur+cur)/2; was a commonly used macro. There are many others. You haven't said what you want to do with it but adding 'CAL macros would make them easier than typing them out. With lisp you could create a command with prompts and options.