From the course: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 Essential Training
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Transparent commands - AutoCAD Civil 3D Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 Essential Training
Transparent commands
- [Instructor] Transparent commands are the only commands you'll find in Civil 3D that are Civil 3D specific, that come out of the box with a toolbar type interface. And so you find that transparent commands, by default, on the right side. Now, we may be familiar with transparent commands to some extent. Transparent commands refer to commands that can run within another command. An example, is zoom, you can be in the line command, and then begin the zoom. Really what you're doing is you're calling the zoom command without ending the line command. Civil 3D transparent commands must be called within another command. Zoom of course can run transparent or not. Transparent commands for Civil 3D must be called. So notice again, I'm in the line command, it asked for the first point, and the transparent commands really provide coordinate control. And we can get coordinates in different ways, for whether it's an AutoCAD command, or even Civil 3D. So you can provide a coordinate from an…
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