Civil 3D Figures happen to be a most excellent adventure in how the simple is sophisticated. This post resolves to save surveyors and civil engineers man-hours in ways you do not expect.
CAD people tend to trust in the picture. AutoCAD Civil 3D does not. We can create Civil 3D Features from CAD primitives (yes even non-ACAD ones). We can explode and export from Civil 3D Features and get…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 28, 2017
Tags figure, survey db, figure db, feature line, feature, Style, video
One of the more interesting aspects of life is that the things we at first do not understand lead us directly to unexpected and new forms of often useful enlightenment. Sadly, this does not happen for everyone all the time. The current bemused ramblings of leftist political pundits comes to mind.
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Changing our perspective takes real work. Understandably that’s something most of us often seem to…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 17, 2016
Tags feature line, priority, site parcel, site design, parcel, corridor, surface, video
Seems to be the week for odd News, Productivity Packs, and things I missed getting out the new Release 7. Strange Feature Line things happened to me in Civil 3D 2016. Do they happen to you? Then I discover that AUDIT is my problem. Huh? Say What?
Autodesk does not exactly advertise this AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 SP2 problem. Dumb.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 23, 2016
Tags Service Pack, Civil 3D 2016, Productivity Pack, feature line, AUDIT, hotfix
Feature Line Baselines in Corridors are a big deal in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017. I also like the basic cleanups in corridors with angular horizontal control. It’s been a long wait for them. Technically, I wish Autodesk had implemented them differently and gone the extra mile. Here’s a brain bender. What’s the difference between a Feature…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 28, 2016
Tags grading, corridor, Civil 3D 2017, Code Set Styles, survey figure, alignment, feature line, standard keys
Early this month Autodesk and Keynetix, Ltd released the latest update to the Geotechnical module for AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016. One supposes this is a preparatory release for the upcoming AutoCAD Civil 3D 2017 release. That says - Geotechnical in Civil 3D will stay around. That’s a good thing.
Sometimes it’s hard to pay attention and not miss to all the other…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 07, 2016
Tags geotechnical, Civil 3D 2016, Productivity Pack, productivity, surface, feature line, boundary