In the early days of AutoCAD, users could safely use a NODe osnap to snap to a point block while zoomed out because they knew it would only return the actual intended point of the insert. Then along came an improvement that had AutoCAD return the insertion point of the attributes. With that improvement meant you had constantly zoom in to make sure you were getting the right point.

For those that aren’t aware, the OSNAPNODELEGACY set to 1 causes the CAD engine restore the logical NODe osnap of the point object only. Now in the highly unlikely case you want to snap to attributes, you can use the INSert osnap.

Deleting parcels (by name) in Civil3D can sometimes be difficult. Right clicking the parcel name doesn’t work, erase on the parcel label does nothing. Here is a step-by-step procedure to quickly delete multiple parcels by name, without picking a single segment.
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Like many things in Civil3D, they can be done but how it’s done isn’t so obvious.  In the process of adding a DEM surface to your drawing you may notice that you can’t project it to another coordinate system (that of the drawing).  Here is a step-by-step procedure including assigning a coordinate system to the current drawing.

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A popular request is to export geometry in a Civil3D drawing to Google Earth in a KML/KMZ format.  This post  contains details on how to do it, with a step-by-step procedure for Civil3D.  For recent versions of Civil3D, you will want to use the EXPORTKML command because it will support the most object types (including AECC objects).  However it has some quirks and this procedure may help iron them out.

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With many things in Civil3D, it’s not readily apparent what you need to do.  Here is a step by step procedure on how to import FLT fault files.  These files are ASCII files you can drag/drop into a notepad and you will see “#AdCADD DTM 12.00 User defined fault file” followed by numerous lines of coordinates.

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