Autodesk often announces new product acquisitions, significant partnerships, and new corporate initiatives at Autodesk University. The recent AU 2022 event in New Orleans, LA is no exception. The operative word for AU 2022 is probably Platform. The key Autodesk take-away is please get on an Autodesk cloud platform or two even if you already employ a core Autodesk…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 29, 2022
Tags Autodesk University, AU 2022, Construction Cloud, Build, Forma, Flow, Fusion
The first live Autodesk University 2022 (AU 2022) in three years officially kicks off today in New Orleans, LA. Yeehah. This live event during the off season in the Big Easy should be hot and sweaty.
Autodesk invading New Orleans reminds me somehow of Creedence Clearwater Revival. A North Bay Area magical rock group that sounds cajun but…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 27, 2022
Tags Autodesk University, AU 2022, Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Update
DWF-based publication is a powerful and useful publishing methodology in Autodesk Civil 3D. DWF publication is a core AutoCAD publishing functionality. It functions well in Civil 3D projects managed on local machines, networks, and document management cloud-based environments.
Civil 3D users and organizations can thankfully employ DWFs to significantly reduce the complexity…
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How many times in Autodesk Civil 3D do we get a complex civil engineering design or survey dataset right the first time? Almost never. This reality is a most important fact about Civil 3D. To employ Civil 3D constructively in a real-world project-based production environment, we need to plan to fail forward.
What the heck does that mean?Sounds like…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 07, 2022
Tags iterations, DREF, design control, design state, grading, Multiple Baseline Corridors, DWF, iPOD, Project Management
This week Autodesk released Autodesk Civil 3D Updates for Civil 3D 2022.3, Civil 3D 2021.3, and Civil 3D 2020.6. These incremental Updates bring these older Civil 3D releases into synch with some Security issues and the Toolbox Volume Report failures that happen if we uninstall Internet Explorer on workstations…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 01, 2022
Tags Update, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2022, Internet Explorer, SpaceX, NASA, Artemis, Starship