The Want of Style Disorder is a silent killer of AutoCAD Civil 3D user productivity everywhere. It ignores class, size, and significance. The syndrome cares not a whit about our reputation, our level of expertise, or our years of professional experience. It’s invisible and pernicious - a new form of technical scurvy. We must acknowledge that Style Starvation is…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 11, 2017
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Release 7, Upgrade, Style
The new advertised AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 features are not particularly focused on Civil 3D Survey improvement. Maybe that’s a good thing. If you already learned the benefits and tools of Survey inside Civil 3D, there is nothing serious to work up a sweat over. Right?
Where oh where did my COGO Editor go?
Some of our love-to-hate familiar Survey tools have moved around in the interface.
The…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 09, 2017
Tags Survey, survey db, survey figure, COGO Editor, Traverse, query, video
AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 introduces the capability of slope-controlled Offset Profile children based on their Offset Alignment parents. The new Civil 3D 2018 function also supports automatic slope transitions between regions within the Offset Profile from the new Offset Parameters tab in the Offset Profile box. People want to know…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 04, 2017
Tags Civil 3D 2018, offset profile, offset alignment, corridors, Assembly, design control, video, superelevation
Autodesk says Multiple Dynamic Baselines (MDB) is a new software feature for Civil 3D 2018. Don’t you love that Autodesk acronym anachronism. Civil 3D’s new form of MDB is actually a synergistic capability that results from the combination of classic Corridor Baselines and Regions the other new features and tools…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 02, 2017
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Multiple Dynamic Baselines, feature line, offset alignment, connected alignment, video