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
The title for this post sounds like something out of Harry Potter, an epic fantasy, or perhaps a military sci-fi space opera. It’s a mystery. Is The Tuple the newest Marvel action hero blockbuster movie due out for the July 4th 2020 weekend? If so, I want a cut for the title name…
The Rise of The Tuple
What the heck is a Tuple?
You employ tuples…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 14, 2020
Tags Style Management, TREF, Dynamo, template, Reference Template, structure, tuple, implementation, CAD Standards
Lest we forget - One of the most powerful new tools in Civil 3D 2020 is Dynamo for Civil 3D. Autodesk released a new Autodesk Dynamo for Civil 3D 2020 Update 2 right after the new year. The officially supported depth and breadth of the Dynamo scripting support for both raw AutoCAD and Civil 3D is much improved in Update 2.
Cool and important stuff like a…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 09, 2020
Tags Dynamo, Civil 3D 2020, Update, Property Set, script, video, AutoCAD 2020, Dynamo Player
Civil engineers and surveyors who employ Autodesk civil software know a thing or two about Description Key Sets. Everyone’s an expert to one level or another by necessity. The DescKey concept and technology has been around a long time back to the old Land Desktop (LTD) days.
Why bother to talk about this topic at all?
“Honey, can we change the channel?”Read morePosted by Tench Tilghman Jan 07, 2020
Tags Description Key Set, Description Key, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, NCS, AIA, survey point, survey figure, survey db, video, points