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
I hate the NCS. I love the NCS. We all love and hate the National CAD Standard. We can all appreciate that things created by committee come with a bit of backside. This love/hate dichotomy is perhaps especially true for us civil engineering and survey types who historically hardly had a place at the NCS committee tables in the first place.
At cadpilot.com we’ve certainly done what we can…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Oct 31, 2014
Every good tale requires a plot. From a neuroscience perspective for human beings this in built into the way our brains work. By this I mean, humans think (process), remember (store), and communicate (publish) what we believe, hope, sometimes know, and try to learn (or not) by tales. Story telling is fundamental to the mechanism of human thought.
In the working world of civil engineers and…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 28, 2014
Tags publish on demand, parcel, dynamic model
These days many are justifiably concerned about pandemic plague.
Seriously, do we call this horrific advent the “Red Death”?
It may not be Ebola, but our viral history says the days will happen. Perhaps you already know and acknowledge that your own DNA confirms this. Viro-evolutionary mechanisms are a disturbing and interesting field of study at least to me.What… Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 21, 2014
Tags WATT, global warming, climate change