What do you get when you Corona virus sequester a bunch of Autodesk Civil 3D and AutoCAD technical geeks who have nothing better to do than talk to the wall?
A barrage of training videos.Whether this barrage analogy references the Battle of Baghdad back in 2003 or the Battle of Verdun in WWI is a matter of some debate. There is a marked difference between precision delivered artillery…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 08, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, training, video, design, corridors
Autodesk released a horde of new Infrastructure Updates, Extensions, and tools over the last 60 days. The annual Autodesk fall Get ready for Autodesk University rollout is in full display. An important Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.5 Update arrived only late last week. There were new features and a lot of important Civil 3D fixes in that Update.
Warning:…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 06, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Update, Upgrade
Many people have questions about the new Project Explorer for Civil 3D for Autodesk Civil 3D 2021 and Civil 3D 2020. Project Explorer is the best thing Autodesk has done for Civil 3D production use and for Civil 3D users in more than a few Civil 3D releases. That says something.
If you are an AEC Collection or Global Support subscription customer, you have download and install…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 01, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Project Explorer, implementation, customization, Project Management, project template
Autodesk made some quiet and undocumented changes to the default Corridor properties in the latest Autodesk Civil 3D 2021.1 Update. The Civil 3D 2021.1 Update’s new separate Inside and Outside Corridor Bowtie Settings for both Tangent and Arcs corner intersection resolutions. These changes can and do affect the default corner resolution behavior in Corridor Baseline…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 29, 2020
Tags grading, corridor, site design, Assembly, baseline, region, video, design control, feature line, alignment, profile, bowties
One thing we know about working with Autodesk Civil 3D for a living - Things in Civil 3D Land are going to change. Upgrades will do it. Updates do it. Now a days maybe Civil 3D Updates do it more. Odds are Civil 3D won’t change in the ways we personally want it to…Civil 3D will change.
As skilled and proactive Civil 3D users change means we need to practice the Art…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 24, 2020
Tags Autodesk University, AU, AU Online, training, video, AutoCAD, Civil 3D 2021