There are all kinds of useful videos, help docs, and even products out there in Civil 3D Land to help us pull-off all the many powerful things with Civil 3D Description Keys and Civil 3D Description Key Sets. I’ve been known to take part in all the blather. People sometimes ask what to do first.
Odds are whatever Description Key Set customization…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 30, 2020
Tags tuple, not keys, BESTWay, points, figures, Survey Codes, Description Key Set, customization, spreadsheet
Folks who want or need to employ the Survey functionality in Autodesk Civil 3D tend to appreciate the Framework for Civil 3D. The words deep, robust, and adaptive say it all. You might call those powerful survey and civil engineering resources - features with benefits. Our preference has consequence and accountability that this humorous allusion…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 28, 2020
Tags tuple, not keys, BESTWay, points, figures, Survey Codes, Description Key Set, customization, Survey Query, spreadsheet
Winter is the season when many in Civil 3D Land tend to deploy new releases of software. Autodesk usually drops an end of year bunch of product Updates. Folks also tend to acquire new AEC partners. Hoorah!
It is a cyclical thing…Maybe an Advent of Spring thing. The partners are companies and organizations that we will have to: collaborate with; work with on new projects; and basically, learn…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 23, 2020
Tags CAD Standards, AutoCAD, QAQC, template, Reference Template, TREF, XREF, IREF, customization, Civil 3D
What you want to snuggle up with for a cold, mid-January winter weekend is the new release of Infraworks. Autodesk calls it/him/her - Infraworks 2020 Update 2. Autodesk’s Update language as applied to Infraworks remains a head scratcher.
What marketing and sales do with the arcane Autodesk licensing and subscription mechanics often seem to befuddle everyone. Folks, you got…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 21, 2020
Tags Infraworks, interop, Civil 3D 2020, Update, Upgrade, implementation, ArcGIS, Connector, Dynamo, Dynamo Player, ESRI
I intentionally employ the metaphor of the US Constitutional principal of the Separation of Powers to talk about how civil engineers and surveyors need to systematically manage to divide and conquer resources and more inside and around Civil 3D. The Arts of Separation help us all to employ the software successfully in production.
The principals of separation are, as they…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 16, 2020
Tags implementation, Project Management, Style Management, names, Dynamiic Model, change management, XREF, DREF, TREF, CAD Standards