There is always some fear and loathing for writers associated with a post about newly introduced feature in the latest AutoCAD Civil 3D. New product features do tend to arrive as a work in progress. Autodesk often introduces something new with little real documentation. This allows them to change the officially undocumented behavior of the new feature in the next Service Pack. Yep. There’s a reason…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 30, 2016
Tags Reference Template, Civil 3D 2017, Style, Style Management
Let’s face it when we think AutoCAD Civil 3D civil engineers and survey people don’t think art. Yet to get the software to produce what you want is a form of art and craftsmanship, don’ ja know.
I saw this documentary about one of the world’s best guitar builders the other day on one of those educational channels. The man’s technically a luthier. He mentors and trains other luthiers for…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 28, 2016
Tags color, utility, thematic style, infrastructure, Civil 3D, Style
Seems to be the week for odd News, Productivity Packs, and things I missed getting out the new Release 7. Strange Feature Line things happened to me in Civil 3D 2016. Do they happen to you? Then I discover that AUDIT is my problem. Huh? Say What?
Autodesk does not exactly advertise this AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 SP2 problem. Dumb.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 23, 2016
Tags Service Pack, Civil 3D 2016, Productivity Pack, feature line, AUDIT, hotfix
Earlier this month Autodesk released AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 Productivity Pack 3 to Autodesk subscription customers. I put up a News post but folks sometimes miss those things. Productivity Packs can be like that. You don't need the information about the tool now and regret it later. I do. Speaking of missing things - Did you see…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Jun 21, 2016
“You suggested on the phone that I root around in the project dataset that you supply with Jump Kit. You pointed me to example drawings on the phone. These days I don’t expect much from examples supplied by software people like Autodesk. I was pleasantly surprised.
Every time I get stuck in my work I root around in your project and manage to figure out how to make the magic…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 16, 2016
Tags training, InstantOn, Jump Kit, project, video, deliverables, Release 7