Let’s face it. Most of the time we all tend to initially shoot for some form of published annotation. It’s a habit. For surveyors this means data out of Survey Dbs. The Lord knows, I hope you have moved beyond imported point files to better manage your survey data behind. You Civil 3D design folks heard that too? For civil engineers this often also means linear design stuff that needs to be annotated.
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 04, 2016
Tags label, line label, curve label, Label Style, Label Set, Label Style Defaults, View, ViewFrame, video
You are one of those people who gets to build and care for your organization’s template(s) for AutoCAD Civil 3D. You’re a smart and you are a skilled and experienced Civil 3D user. The people around you depend on you for that. The odds are you probably follow this Jump on Civil 3D blog and others like it to keep up when you have the time.
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Getting the time is nigh to impossible…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 02, 2016
Tags template, style, Style Management, implementation, Civil 3D 2015, Civil 3D 2016
I hope you caught the recent planetary news out of Caltech that our solar system may indeed have a new ninth planet. Mike Brown, who led the crusade to change Pluto’s formal classification to a dwarf planet from a planet, and his research partner,…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 26, 2016
Tags Description Key Set, point group, point, deliverables, video
At the root of the NCS system is the concept of Standard Keys. These are most often connected to the NCS rules of Standard Layers and the way drawing information is published. The concept and implemented practice of Standards Keys can do a lot more than that. We employ Standard Keys all over the place in the Production…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 21, 2016
Tags standard keys, layers, implementation, customization, video
Great products actually get better and save you more time and effort. They can produce new unexpected, and even more useful results and opportunities. Our AddOn updates to the Production Solution products make a difference.
Our infamous Legends and Lists AddOn for many releases of AutoCAD Civil…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 19, 2016
Tags survey, spreadsheet, customization, implementation, points, AddOn, video