The Point is one of the most overused words in Autodesk Civil 3D. Are we talking about COGO points? Survey Points? Point Groups? Point data in a Surface? Points of Intersection in our horizontal, vertical, and cross section control?
This list of different and/or separate meanings for the word Point seems to be a never-ending story.
The mastery of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 12, 2026
Tags Description Key, Description Key Set, point, Point Style, Point Label Style, expressions, Expression Set, Property Set, point group, figure, survey db
Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there is the large, critical path Style problem. There is real user need for Style Choice. Civil 3D Styles have a variety of purpose. There are clearly Styles and Label Styles we need to employ for different purposes. Civil engineering design and survey processes involve creation, edit, QAQC, and an increasing number of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 17, 2024
Tags Style Management, Style, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Civil 3D, Upgrade, Update, property, implementation
This is that time of year in Civil 3D Land. People do ask if the Framework for Civil 3D products run in the latest and greatest Autodesk Civil 3D 2024. All our preliminary testing shows that the available Templates Only for Civil 3D 2023 and Jump Kit for Civil 3D 2023 product builds run fine in Civil 3D 2024.
We…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 19, 2023
Tags Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2024, Upgrade, Update, Project Explorer, Grading Optimization, Access, video, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, Property Set
What is Infrastructure? Better question - What is Operations Engineering? If our firm works in Civil 3D Land for any significant amount of time, the odds are a good portion of the firm income is generated in the Operations Engineering space. If we work in the governmental or agency side of things, we call this Public Works.
Operations…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 19, 2022
Tags Civil 3D, interop, pipe network, InfoWorks, InfoDrainage, InfoWater Pro, Innovyze, video, Property Set
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.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 09, 2020
Tags Dynamo, Civil 3D 2020, Update, Property Set, script, video, AutoCAD 2020, Dynamo Player