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I’m old school…but would LOVE LandFX. I draw a schedule and text right in AC. Once I have it set up, I can copy it from project to project. Simplest is sometimes the best. BTW…I have never had great luck importing Excel into AC..it always seems to come out blocky…that, and you have to change thing in TWO pieces of software, and still do…[Read more]

Thanks Henry. I’m trying to do something no cost right now. I like what I’ve seen with LandFX–there was a great webinar series a while back about it. Thanks for responding so quickly.

Maybe others have lisps they like, or macros or something else to add on. Or maybe just a new way I haven’t thought of yet.

Thanks Andrew. I’ve never tried blowing up paper space. It did take a little time to get used to the difference in scale in and out of a viewport. I created a text and leader style just for layout when I need to put something in paper space. Don’t use it much, but it’s good to have.

Annotative texts have been my difficulty. Every time I think…[Read more]

lol, this is a great con.

Hey, there Are NO RULES in doing this! One of the best ‘initial marketing samples’ that I ever saw was done on a piece of torn-off yellow lined paper, neatly lettered, with a couple of quick sketches. It showed that the candidate had gumption, self-confidence, and an innate ability to communicate. (He got the job, btw).

For the most part, I’d err…[Read more]

Yes, Lynn, they are just separate viewports. When one viewport is sitting within the bounds of another, I click on it to get the grips lit up and then stretch it out past the edge of the other that it was surrounded by. Then you can click in it without clicking within the other one.I use separate viewports for plant shedules as well so that I can…[Read more]

I can definitely see how x-refs are critical with multiusers. I’m a one-person office and haven’t found a use for them yet. But that’s not disdain :-).

I hate to answer for Andrew, but I’m pretty sure he does have a vp in another vp and certainly more than one in some layouts.

By the way Andrew, I’ve noticed that when I have a vp in a vp I can’t work on the interior vp. Double click in it and I only get the vp in which it’s embedded. I have managed this by moving the vp off the paper to edit,…[Read more]

has anyone seen synthetic turf used in dog parks? that seems like a really messy idea.

So what do you do when you get a new site plan from a consultant? Block it in? I don’t get it. I’m also having trouble understanding how you’re viewporting the ttblock AND the site linework into the same sheet. You have a vp inside a vp?

I like the idea of a national cad standard naming convention.

Why does it seem necessary to separate information in separate drawings instead of on separate layers? It seem to me to add a level of complication especially when it comes to editing.

I’m in a CE office and we very easily use single drawings on projects that have hundreds of layers. We keep all layers with the exception of image layers (which we name with an underscore which goes above a zero in the layer list) thawed and on in global model space. We freeze layers in viewports to manage each sheet in separate layout tabs. If we…[Read more]

I agree. I find that working in xrefs is the easiest and best way to work. I currently work in an office that takes other disciplines drawings and blocks them in and changes what they need to, when they need to. I find this a very dangerous habit and an overall bad method. Unfortunately, the architects we work with have similar methods, and so we…[Read more]

I, too, have been surprised at the disdain for xrefs. I work in a civil/landscape architecture office so maybe that’s why I’ve come to rely on them so heavily. We typically have a single base drawing that is generated initially by our survey crews in the field. All existing and proposed layers are placed into this one drawing – utilities, grading,…[Read more]

I agree. I was surprised to find out xrefs were not used more extensively. That is all that I do. I find that the more I can separate information (especially between disciplines) the easier it is for me to manage the content of the files. Even for landscape files, I typically separate out information like planting, irrigation, grading/drainage,…[Read more]

My questions exactly. We have the TB as a separate file, then xref it into paperspace.

Is the titleblock a separate dwg? If it isn’t what’s the point of using an xref when a veiwport will do? Maybe I’m missing something there.
If it is a separate dwg, why is that? It’s easy to just keep your ttb info in a template file used to create all your dwgs.

By the way, in using design center (got updated on that too), I discovered that…[Read more]

Why not just copy the ttb xref to each layout in paperspace? It updates all ttb’s at once when you update the xref.

I know that some of the cyptic code comes from the early days of CAD when Microstation did not support layer names…only numbers. Those numbers would be a universal set for an office where, lets say “26” referred to a gas line easment and the specific line type showed red on the screen, .05 pen weight, and was dashed.

Some architecture firms…[Read more]