Our mission to keep all the folks on the same page in Autodesk Civil 3D is a painful and never-ending prospect. Some might say this form of endless punishment is justified. The CAD justice warrior might even say the never ending is required and well deserved. Some CAD Managers tend to resort to many forms of trickery and deceit to manage the madness…
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Tench Tilghman
Jul 27, 2022
Tags CAD Management, Project Management, CAD Standards, WATT, video, Construction Cloud
Autodesk released an AutoCAD 2023.1 Update late last week. Heigh ho. That usually means that out here in the wilds of Civil 3D Land we should also see an Autodesk Civil 3D 2023.1 Update real soon now. Perhaps you already noticed that some of this recent AutoCAD 2023.1 Update is a bit more targeted at Civil 3D issues than in times…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 20, 2022
Tags AutoCAD 2023, Update, AU 2022, eVTOL, space, nasa, DARPA
Many, if not most, of our Civil 3D Projects will involve multiple forms of Reference Replacement. Many of us employ the classic External References (XREF) basemap strategy in our plan set publication.
There are two common scenarios here. The Survey dept must update the existing annotation for the proposed project’s Parcel map. Survey can…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 13, 2022
Tags reference, XREF, DREF, IREF, Project Management, Data Shortcut Manager, Data Shortcut Editor, Reference Explorer, video
Did you notice? The very merry month of June was a busy month for Autodesk updates in Civil 3D Land. There were at least a full dozen Autodesk product updates, enhancements, and hotfixes released for Autodesk Civil 3D and the related AEC Collection products. Some of these babies matter to you. Some may not.
We might guess this earlier June…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 06, 2022
Tags Upgrade, Update, Civil 3D, Project Management, PDCA, Framework