The production mechanics of AutoCAD Civil 3D’s interconnected and project-based Dynamic Model is powerful. It can be overwhelming. Maybe we all aren’t so clear what that means at a practical and daily work level.
Long time CAD users are faced with a daunting certainty when they are confronted by Civil 3D. The simple world of basic CAD primitives is replaced by things that…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 28, 2017
Tags surface, alignment, parcel, dynamic model, bucket, training
One of the great things about AutoCAD Civil 3D is that there are lots of ways to get things done. One of the worst things about Civil 3D is that there are lots of ways to get things done. The power of the Civil 3D Data Behind, the Clout of Style, and this dichotomy is often exemplified by how (well) we employ annotative Label Style.
Substance and Style
Both…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 23, 2017
Tags iPOD, Label Style, Point Label Style, publish on demand, layers, Layer Standards, video
The Framework for Civil 3D allows you to employ AutoCAD Civil 3D in multiple releases right out of the box. Still everyone has to learn how to do that. As much as we might wish for magic buttons there are none. This is the common human dilemma.
Productive solutions require good software, consistent and robust resources, and these must be coupled into working civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 21, 2017
Tags training, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2015, survey, design
I hear “We Are New to Civil 3D” a lot this time of year. It’s winter. Do civil engineers and surveyors finally have time to tackle new software? Nah. Maybe it’s because they got new hardware with Windows 10 and discovered their old software won’t even run? Nah. Maybe they decided to leave the LDT, Microstation, Eagle Point, or whatever old fold because there is no new work in their…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 16, 2017
Tags Upgrade, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2015, Templates Only, Jump Kit, Release 7
In the second week of February 2017 before Valentine’s Day, we made a number of backend security and website engine updates to make both our public and private login portions of the site more secure in preparation for a near-term future conversion of the entire site from the http protocol to the encrypted https (SSL) protocol.
Prepare for the Future
Thankfully, this is all mostly…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 14, 2017
Tags website