Welcome my friends to the show that never ends - The annual Autodesk Right of Spring is upon us. This week Autodesk began marketing the new AutoCAD 2021 and the new AutoCAD 2021 Toolsets. Folks will be dancing around the pole at discreet social distanced intervals. Those spacings and your zoom and pan response will perhaps be determined by measured…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 26, 2020
Tags AutoCAD 2021, Upgrade, Update, Toolset, Map 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2021, video
The Coronavirus crisis is upon us all. Autodesk officially announced temporary free access to Autodesk Cloud Collaboration Products and some delays and changes to future billing and licensing policies in an effort to somewhat mitigate their customer issues during the crisis. The Autodesk details and official links to more information are listed and linked below.
You have…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 24, 2020
Tags BIM 360, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2021, Jump Kit, Templates Only, video, free, training, implementation
Survey is not Design. Civil engineering Design isn’t public works Operations. Many can argue that modern Operations Engineering is effectively another discipline with different management goals and processes. Infrastructure is expensive to design and build, and more expensive to maintain. Public Works infrastructure is complex, interdepartmental, sometimes inter-agency, and often…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 19, 2020
Tags Release 8, Release 7, Jump Kit, Templates Only, InstantOn, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Government, CAD Standards, video
Hey, maybe the Autodesk Civil development team knew something before we did? If you have to work from home for the next month, Civil 3D Collaboration for BIM 360 Design may suddenly make a lot more sense. This may not happen in your corner of Civil 3D Land this week, but it might sooner rather than later.
I’m pretty sure I’ve already seen Autodesk will help you work…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 17, 2020
Tags corridor, corridor surface, alignment, intersection, project template, Civil 3D 2020, Connector, BIM 360, profile, offset profile, video
We use Autodesk Civil 3D. We are dependent on the software to get our project work done and to execute our production work and deliverables. Beyond those obvious ones, the number of formal data Dependencies inside Civil 3D and our civil engineering and survey projects appear to do nothing but increase. Dependencies are trending and tend to explode.
Maybe…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 25, 2020
Tags DREF, TREF, IREF, data reference, data shortcut, reference, Dynamiic Model, Project Management, video