In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Hotfix 2

If you need to add Vertices to your Feature lines or 3D Poly lines this is how:

You have 3 places you can choose from to run command, command line, Pulldown Menu or Ribbon.

Command=AeccInsertFeatureElevPoint

From Pulldown Menu pick "Grading" > "Edit Feature Line Elevation" > "Insert Elevation Point"

If you ever run across a bunch of garbage like this runn across your command line you need to go to your OPTIONS and AEC Editor TAB.

Uncheck Diagnostic Messages!

When you are using fillet radius and you want to see where the radius will be make sure SELECTIONPREVIEW is on.

Objects are highlighted when the pickbox cursor rolls over them. The highlighting indicates that the object would be selected if you clicked it. The setting is stored as a bitcode using the sum of the following values:

0=OFF , 1=On when no commands are active, 2=On when a command prompts for object selection

I am sure everyone out there gets drawings from multiple clients or surveyors that contain a bunch of misc. crap you want to delete and sometimes you can't.

I ran across some files that had been Bound to the topo file and it created a lot of useless blocks that I could not delete which contained layers that would not purge.

Have you ever had to update multiple drawings with updated C3D styles?

Here is how you do it.

Turn "filedia" OFF

Put in your directory Path and Filename you want to be updated.

Turn "cmddia" OFF

"importstylesandsettings" is the command to import the styles

Put the DWG or DWT file you want to import with new styles here

"Y" overwrites the current styles in DWG

Autodesk Released the Productivity Tools for Autocad C3D 2012 several days ago.

Check out the list of tools provided below.

The one that catches my eye is the Borehole Utility. Onces you download the utility you want open your Prospector and go to the toolbox Tab to execute the program

You have 4 Data formats supported: (.AGS, .CSV, .TXT, .GEF)

AutoCAD 2012 Service Pack 2

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=19500680&linkID=9240618

Here is how to create a toolbar for you to "ZOOM TO POINT" Not sure why it is not in C3D2012 or 2013 for that matter. Atleast I was not able to find it in 2013. If you know where it is let me know. Great command in Land Desktop.

Create a new command in the CUI and add this macro: ^C^C'ZC;'PN;\\30;

Ever drag a point label and the leader does not point to the center of the point?

Kinda old. But just had to do it again so thought I would post.

Your first thought is to just edit the label style, close. After a few minutes of digging here you go.

Select the Label

Right click and select "Point Group Properties"

Select the "Point Style" Not (Label Style)