Someone calls me up the other day with AutoCAD Civil 3D Pipes questions. Mike asks if our Production Solutions products will solve his specific storm drain Pipes labeling problem for his local municipal jurisdiction. That happens to be a major US metro that’s currently under water – literally under water. I’m not laughing at Mike. I’m laughing with him.
“The…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 12, 2016
Tags pipes, Label Style, CAD Standards, City Standards
A point is a point is a point. Along came Civil 3D and turned all this simple stuff on its head. The idea was to make the whole point symbols and label thing more useful, less time consuming, and much more flexible. Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
It’s fair to say that most people said, “You’ve got to be kidding.”
Annotative Madness
Did…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 08, 2015
Tags symbol, Symbol Set, block, Point Style, Point Label Style, COGO points
Lots of us must output sections. Sometimes it’s a single section; sometimes that means pages and pages of sections. There’s certainly no doubt that Section View production and specifically Section annotation is one of the more complex tasks in AutoCAD Civil 3D (lots of posts about Civil 3D sections here).
The…
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 20, 2014
Tags 2015, Civil 3D, section, Label Style, corridor, annotation, vlog, video
We talked about the many particulars of Civil 3D Label Styles and customization before in this blog. Hey. We jumped on it. Then there’s the obvious we experts seem to overlook.
As Fate would have it someone asks me the other day,“How do I know what all these Civil 3D Label Styles do? There are lots of them!”
There…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 07, 2014
Tags style, Label Style, standards, open
Videos are all the rage. This site has hours and hours of them on the Civil 3D Video recordings page.
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I do post a few to YouTube now and then. Truthfully, you’re better off coming here where you can both the eye candy and the beef about AutoCAD Civil 3D.
They tell me that I should probably post more on YouTube…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 07, 2014
Tags management, video, Description Key Set, Point Style, Point Label Style