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Folks, when I say “skybox” I’m not talking about the deluxe stadium seating reserved for the corporate classes here. Or am I?

Here Civil 3D land we talk about smaller, faster, and more capable survey data gathering using Autodesk Recap 360, MAV (micro air vehicle) or UAS (unmanned aerial systems) technology et al, in the larger Internet of Things you simply can’t ignore…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  aerials, video, imagery

A lunar eclipse and the requisite Red Moon happen in Passover and Easter week this year. Lord knows, it’s a repeatable event.

We’ll have Red Moons four times in the next two years. Each lunar eclipse happens in conjunction with either Passover or the Feast of Tabernacles.

In the GB (green blue) filtered State of California the signs…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  WATT, CA, moon

Recently, Shaan Hurley of Autodesk, posted a tweet to a real cool Autodesk YouTube marketing video on Autodesk Recap 360, GoPro camera, and Autodesk Revit. The recording demonstrated the use digital GoPro camera pics shot from a DJI Phantom quadcopter UAS to rapidly…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  aerials, UAV, recap, GoPro, DJI

“A Company hires people to do things.
A Company hires people to manage things.
Smart People pay people who manage to do the important well.”

This Twitter tweet-sized tidbit from the Human Gravity on the substance of work is worthy of a short post of its own.

It has a ring to it.

As the author I allow you the right to replace “Company” with anything from this…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  management, WATT, work

Everyone builds surfaces. AutoCAD Civil 3D now has some great tools to edit our breaklines which is one of the classic challenges for all who seek to be TIN wizards.

Are You a Tinman?

Today I’m a big fan of Survey Dbs and the Survey technology tools in Civil 3D. The Survey tools allow us to both visualize and manage the surface data gathered in almost any classic form much better…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  figure, figure edit, video, suface