Around Thanksgiving in a couple of years previous I’ve posted about the Tale of the Turkey - a philosophical puzzle first posed in this humorous form by Bertrand Russell. The posts are worth a read.
How to Learn From the Turkey
A Helping of Turkey Day
The…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 25, 2014
Tags turkey, WATT, thanksgiving
Are you looking for a great course in beginning AutoCAD Civil 3D? You should try out Jon Michael Roberts’ course Up…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 18, 2014
Tags training, video, lynda.com, corridor, InstantOn Basic, InstantOn Survey, Jump Kit, Templates Only
I get an all too familiar call this week from the principal of a civil and survey firm about our Production Solution products.
“We need a template for AutoCAD Civil 3D that supports National Standards. I don’t get what the difference is between your products?”
I ask if he has a young daughter. The search for some shared context is critical. He does.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 11, 2014
Tags Style, template, Templates Only, implementation, training, video
If you must employ both Autodesk and Bentley civil engineering software some more help has arrived. In late October Autodesk released the Autodesk Civil Engineering Data Translator (CEDT) to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 subscription customers via the Autodesk Subscription Center.
Do We thank the Converts
One supposes we have one or more Autodesk State DOT customers to…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 07, 2014
Tags Bentley, Translator, conversion, Civil 3D, 2015, alignment, surface, profile
In the previous post we talked about the National CAD Standard (NCS) and International Standards Organization (ISO) recommendations about font faces in our plan sets. Read the In Font of the Face of Horror post.
In larger projects we also might have multiple CAD apps producing the work. Font…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 04, 2014
Tags textstyle, special characters, font, NCS, linetype, symbol, Symbol Set