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It’s time for Autodesk University. Enjoy. Behind the scenes Autodesk has released a number of hotfixes for AutoCAD based products. Some of the hotfixes are for products as far back as AutoCAD 2013 based products. The Autodesk hotfixes and Service Packs that effect AutoCAD Civil 3D are all listed and the links and read me files can be found in posts…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  Civil 3D, hotfix, Service Pack

Happy Thanksgiving! In the spirit of this important holiday we lowered on pricing on addition seats of InstantOn Basic, InstantOn Survey, and even for our most popular product Jump Kit

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  InstantOn Basic, InstantOn Survey, Jump Kit, price, Upgrade

Heck. No.
Linetypes work. Hardly anyone needs to mess with linetypes anymore. They are available standard linetypes for almost everything in every CAD discipline. With some adjustment they even work across multiple drafting disciplines. What do you mean by linetype style anyway?

Autodesk, please don’t change what works.

Heck. Yes.
The…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  linetype, Style, WATT

I’m happy to testify that I did Windows 10 on all my Windows computers right away. Nothing to wait for. Sure I tested all my Autodesk apps and they ran fine in Windows 10 prerelease versions. Yes. I use more than one computer and more than one operating system too. Silly me. It’s a geek thing. Someone has to do it. Better me than you.

Be Thankful

It is that time of year.

Truthfully,…

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Below is one of my favorite quotes about modern model-based software. It came to me from one of my training and support staff back in the day. It’s worth thinking about.

“If civil engineering was easy, anyone could do it. Thank God it isn’t or we’d all starve. Software tools can make many production things faster, but faster doesn’t always make for better…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  implementation, training, bucket