White Papers-Large Subdivisions & Styles

Autodesk has released two new White Papers, one for using Civil 3D for Large Subdivisions and another for Setting up Styles. If you are interested in either one, here is the link to the main page which also has the other White Papers that have been released; http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=5173807 .

The White Paper entitled "Civil 3D 2007 for large subdivisions" is a pretty good paper because it outlines how a company can use Civil 3D in all aspect of the subdivision design (Points, Survey, Surfaces, Parcels, Alignments, Profiles, Corridors, Grading, and Pipe Networks). It also talks about how you can successfully use Vault in this type of environment.

The other paper entitled "Whitepaper Civil 3D 2007 Styles Updated Fundamentals" highlights the creation and clarifies what the different style dialog boxes are used for. It also talks about the differences between Object Styles, Label Styles, and Table Styles but it also talks about how to successfully use the Label Style Composer. Additionally this paper also mentions how Expressions can be used in your Label Styles. The one thing that I do like about this White Paper is that it also has a Workflow outline that goes through how most users can create styles with as little frustration as possible.