The on-going Style Maintenance of our Civil 3D templates is a significant and complex information management problem. There is the raw numbers problem. There are lots of kinds of Civil 3D Feature Styles and Civil 3D Label Styles to manage.
There’s the larger critical path Style problem of the variety of purpose - The need for Style Choice.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Apr 04, 2019
Tags Style, Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template
To try and make cents out of Civil 3D is no easy task. The Civil 3D diva is a big beast with lots of moving parts and pieces. The numerous methods of usage, optional workflows, and many diverse nuances of the entire Civil 3D tools package are an overwhelming and never-ending story. A new Civil 3D 2020 is almost upon us. If you use Civil 3D, you already know that. You live it.
Everyone works…
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The latest One AutoCAD 2020 release is now on the street. The One AutoCAD includes a host of specialty Toolsets in addition to the improved core AutoCAD functionality. The AutoCAD 2020 improvements include a focus on faster installs, quicker saves, and better integration of common AutoCAD tools, and interface mechanics for all the supported Toolsets.
AutoCAD 2020
AutoCAD…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 28, 2019
Tags AutoCAD 2020, Toolset, Map 3D 2020, release, block, purge, install
The title for this post sounds almost like a car finish product. Go on down to the box store and pick up some Surface Care today. Civil 3D Surface Care is in the aisle next to that beer sold by dem Artesians. You remember the Artesians? Don’t you? Ok. Maybe not. You should.
The Artesian tv spots were the best of the 80’s beer commercials. You have to wonder…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 26, 2019
Tags surface, DREF, landxml, survey landxml, points, COGO points, survey point, video, project template
The annual Autodesk Right of Spring 2020 release product rollouts should begin later this month if not sooner. You can see it coming. You probably noticed that your Autodesk Desktop App was recently updated. If not, maybe you want to make sure you pull that Autodesk Desktop App Update from the subscription site.
These days an Autodesk Desktop…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 14, 2019
Tags Update, Release 8, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, implementation, CAD Standards, customization