I acknowledge that I have a different experience than many others in the world of Civil 3D. I attempt to make sure those differences work to your advantage in word, video training deed, and product. The Lord knows, I don’t ever want to count my hours spent inside AutoCAD Civil 3D figuring out how to make the C3D madness work. Yet every day, I’m still humbled by complexity faced by the user…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 28, 2017
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Jump Kit, Templates Only, CAD Standards, implementation
Autodesk added some new tools to help us better manage Reference Templates in the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018.1 update. This is great news! The new functionality in the Attach Reference Template box via the new Manage Reference Settings dialog box means we may seriously need to consider a Reference Template Naming Convention. Oh, no!…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 12, 2017
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Update, Reference Template, implementation, CAD Standards, Style, Style Management, video
The AutoCAD Civil 3D resources structure of the Framework for Civil 3D works pretty well both to package up a whole bunch of diverse resources and to get those power-packed resources deployed, available, and implemented for Civil 3D users quickly. People sometimes email me and ask if they can use the structure.
You bet. I do point out that they can get a cheap copy that…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 14, 2017
Tags implementation, management, survey, query, video, Civil 3D 2018, CAD Standards
Shall we continue to explore the interpreted nature of point data in AutoCAD Civil 3D? In the last post we talked about the Point Display Override Strategy. That’s where many civil engineers and surveyors end up after initially struggling with AutoCAD Civil 3D point display issues for a bit.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 12, 2017
Tags point display, point group, Description Key Set, Description Key, implementation, Style Management, video
There are a good number of things about AutoCAD Civil 3D Label Styles that may eclipse our previous notions about civil engineering and survey annotation. The path of totality in Civil 3D grants us all significant access to the data behind the many Features – That list of many things inside the Civil 3D Toolspace. These nuanced opportunities deliver to us the format…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 22, 2017
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Style Management, implementation, Civil 3D 2018, Text Component Editor, Text Overrides