Hey everyone. Happy Halloween! I received a comment to the Transparent Hatches post from last month. After reading the comment, I tried to create the transparent hatch and plot it from my local printer. Much to my chagrin, the hatch that shows up transparent on the screen plotted a solid colr blob on my printer.
Well, that got me to thinking and doing some more research on the topic. I called on Alacad's resident Map 3D specialist James Murphy. I told James the steps that I had gone through to create the "transparent hatch." I asked him the all important question of how can I get this transpaernt theme to hatch. James informed me of a command that is new to the 2009 version of Map 3D, which means that it also works in Civil 3D. The command is MAPPLOTTRANSPARENCY. When you enter this on the command line you have the option to turn it on or off. Turn the command on. I sent the current drawing file to my local printer and lo and behold, the hatched area printed transparently! To get this to work on your local/network printer/plotter, you may have to adjust the line merge properties of the printer/plotter. This setting can be changed through the printer properties button on the plot screen. I hope this helps! Happy plotting!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
A Couple of Things
Hey everyone! I've got a couple of things to talk about today. The first is Autodesk University 2008. The event will be held December 2-5, 2008 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. If you have never been, I suggest that you do everything possible to attend. Autodesk University (AU) is a meeting of the best and brightest Autodesk users from around the world. There are learning tracts for all industries including Civil and GIS. The classes are typically 90 mins long and some of them are actually hands on labs where you can work through exercises in the software. A lot of the classes will gain you some valuable Continuing Education credits!
The registration fee includes the cost of the conference, breakfast and lunch during the conference and Autodesk sponsored events during the evenings. The instructors are from Autodesk and Resellers across the country. In fact two of the presenters are from Alacad! Check it out. Here is the link: http://au.autodesk.com/
Okay, now for topic number two. I am currently trying to produce courseware for our surveying customers. I have not been able to locate any training materials that will help our surveyors in their day-to-day operations. If your company is willing to donate survey data to the cause please reply here and I will get back to you. I am in need of raw data files for traverses and topos.
The courseware that I am trying to write will cover data collection methods, using the Autodesk Field Book format to insert data and line work, or Field to Finish, creating plat maps, surfaces and the creation and use of parcels. These topics are what I see as the typical things that surveying customers are looking for. I am also open to further suggestions as to what this class should contain. Again reply to this post.
The registration fee includes the cost of the conference, breakfast and lunch during the conference and Autodesk sponsored events during the evenings. The instructors are from Autodesk and Resellers across the country. In fact two of the presenters are from Alacad! Check it out. Here is the link: http://au.autodesk.com/
Okay, now for topic number two. I am currently trying to produce courseware for our surveying customers. I have not been able to locate any training materials that will help our surveyors in their day-to-day operations. If your company is willing to donate survey data to the cause please reply here and I will get back to you. I am in need of raw data files for traverses and topos.
The courseware that I am trying to write will cover data collection methods, using the Autodesk Field Book format to insert data and line work, or Field to Finish, creating plat maps, surfaces and the creation and use of parcels. These topics are what I see as the typical things that surveying customers are looking for. I am also open to further suggestions as to what this class should contain. Again reply to this post.
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