Our civil engineering customers say that Framework for Civil 3D provides an awesome design solution for Civil 3D. You get production Civil 3D templates that work. These include one of the largest and most robust Civil 3D Styles libraries on the planet bar none.
Our survey customers say that the Framework for Civil 3D provides an awesome survey solution for…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 01, 2018
Tags codes, survey point, survey figure, survey db, Description Key, Description Key Set, point group, Speadsheet Tools, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018
AutoCAD Civil 3D can be the software surveyors love to hate. Maybe that should read hate to love? Unquestionably, Autodesk immediately messed with the established survey CAD workflows. In truth, they even messed with the core essential meanings of many familiar things like Point, Figure, and Alignment.
Historically, Autodesk also probably took way too long to sort out the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 27, 2018
Tags survey, survey db, point group, Description Key Set, survey figure, implementation, surface, points, Point Style, Point Label Style, video
Most years I spend the post-AU month of December at work on planned improvements to the Framework for AutoCAD Civil 3D. This year is no exception. More about that next time. I trust you recognize that this does not mean that any of us can afford to have…
A Business as Usual Attitude
Far from it. If this last couple of months tells us anything, it screams that the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 02, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Update, Subassembly, Survey, query, deliverables, iPOD
Most civil engineering and survey firms employ a simple form of codes in the Format column of their Description Keys. There’s no problem with that, but you may be missing some very useful functionality built into AutoCAD Civil 3D’s Description Keys Sets and annotative Label Style power tools.
Inside Civil 3D there is the simple and then there is the simply…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 19, 2017
Tags not keys, points, figure, figure prefix db, standard keys, Description Key Set, Description Key, codes, survey db, video
This is the season for giving at the home of the best and most affordable Civil 3D templates and Civil 3D Styles collections for AutoCAD Civil 3D. We release yet another significant and free Release 7 Framework for Civil 3D AddOn this month. You can now get more from your Survey Db data faster, cleaner, and in more forms.
A Civil 3D Gift That Keeps Giving
All Release…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 12, 2017
Tags survey db, query, AddOn, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2018, Jump Kit, Templates Only