Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Work with the program rather than against it

One of the recurring themes in my training classes and implementations is how the software works. For obvious reasons I won't be reverse engineering Civil 3D to better explain how it works. However, the one thing I will say is that if you figure out how the software (and in turn the programmer) wants you to work you will have a much easier time transitioning from LDD to Civil 3D.

If you are designing something and are constantly crashing or getting bogus information try it a different way or in a different order. Remember there is more than 1 way to do any certain task within Civil 3D. There other important aspect to remember is the correct order of operations. We all remember OoO from Elementary school right? The arithmetic operations are: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Within Civil 3D there are very similar orders, however they are not as set in stone. There will eventually be posted here a workable order of operations that will keep things stable and ready to rock.

Until then, keep on keeping on.

1 comment:

Dr.Brandon said...

Correctomundo. Give it some time and you will be able to harness the power. Don't get frustrated, you aren't the first one to ever have to make the transtiion from LDD to c3d. It works.