Frankly, I was More than a bit surprised Autodesk decided to go with the “2013” moniker for the release. Were you? If Autodesk is not going to be superstitious, we shouldn’t be either.
Should we be afraid? Not at all.Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 29, 2012
Tags performance, 2013, Civil 3D, profile, alignment
Can we really count the improvements in the next release of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013? There are lots more than 13 of them of course. No one is interested in a number count anyway. We want to get our survey and civil engineering work done quicker and with less hassle. We want more robust software that includes more capabilities to tackle our real world problems.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 27, 2012
Tags Civil 3D, 2013, performance
Our Jump Customers often ask really good questions about tweaking the thousands of Civil 3D Styles we offer.
"Is there a way that you can make the curve label style not show all the 0’s ahead of the degree for the delta of the curve?
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For example, if the delta is 8° 23’ 34”, then it is displaying as 008° 23’ 34”.
My preference would be to not show all the 0’s before the…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 23, 2012
Tags label, Label Style, Text Component Editor, Style, Style Management, line label, curve label
I always get a rash of questions about what users will need to run the next release of AutoCAD Civil 3D.
See this news item if you'd like to see the official Autodesk 2013 products press event on Facebook.Read more
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 21, 2012
Tags 2013, Civil 3D, requirements, performance
Point Groups coupled with Description Key Sets provide us with a powerful environment to manage, display and annotate COGO point data in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
Remember - YOU Rule the Points
Prior to AU 2011 I wrote a post…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Mar 20, 2012


