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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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Posted by Tench Tilghman

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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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

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

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

Tags  textstyle, special characters, font, NCS, linetype, symbol, Symbol Set