Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there are intimate, hierarchical relationships between an Alignment, its child Profiles, child Offset Alignments, their slope-controlled Profiles, Curb Return Alignments and their Connected Alignment and Profile cousins, and Intersections. Sooner or later, we discover that…
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Tench Tilghman
Jun 24, 2021
Tags alignment, connected alignment, offset alignment, baseline, feature line, DREF, corridor, corridor surface, grading, Grading Optimization
I enjoy finding examples and folks who creatively learn to employ the Power of Not to production work in Autodesk Civil 3D. Huh? What the hay does the Power of Not mean? I trust that you do understand the difference between the Boolean logic of AND and OR in expressions. Eheh.
NOT is the third chord (the…
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Tench Tilghman
May 25, 2021
Tags Data Shortcut Manager, Data Behind, not keys, Project Management, points, Point Label Style, site design, corridors, grading
Do we ask the right questions about Civil 3D and how we use it?
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By definition…Probably not. We human beings tend to not ask questions about what we believe we already know how to do. We rely too much on habit. We could call this the human autopilot. The autopilot works 95%+ of the time. Our brains spend a good deal of invisible time behind the scenes working on those building those structures…
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Tench Tilghman
May 18, 2021
Tags customization, implementation, alignment, points, surface, corridor, grading, Jump Kit, Templates Only, project template, Style Management
Autodesk officially released Autodesk Civil 3D 2022 and the many related Autodesk Civil Infrastructure interoperability, production, and design development tools this week. Needless to say, there are some new important civil engineering and survey production goodies built into the latest Civil 3D 2022. More on those Civil 3D improvements in just…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 15, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2022, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, video, Grading Optimization, Project Explorer, Batch Save
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out the annual Autodesk Right of Spring and product release is about to begin. A new, cloudy host of Autodesk software will hit the street real soon now. The misty-eyed folks will dance around the May pole and declare the new power and majesty of the standing stones.
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If not, Autodesk shareholders will soon headhunt some Autodesk…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 18, 2021
Tags Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, AEC Collection, Project Explorer, Grading Optimization, BIM Collaborate Pro, iPOD, DWF, implementation