Department of Public Works agencies employ the Framework for Civil 3D for countless reasons. Public Works Directors, Assistant Public Works Directors, and their staff from all over say the choice simply makes sense.
Our customers today include public works departments in major metros; well-known counties, townships, and parishes; and certainly a host of smaller public works…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 12, 2018
Tags CAD Standards, video, Style, Style Management, customization, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Civil 3D 2019, Templates Only, InstantOn, Jump Kit, Government
Someone asked about why we include example projects with Jump Kit. Best I let a customer answer that…
“You suggested on the phone that I root around in the project dataset that you supply with Jump Kit. You pointed me to example drawings on the phone. These days I don’t expect much from examples supplied by software people like Autodesk. Boy, was I wrong.
Every…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 10, 2018
Tags Templates Only, Jump Kit, project, training, Upgrade, video, offset profile, superelevation, Civil 3D 2018
Autodesk has AutoCAD users well trained. You buy the product and then immediately begin customizing the product to meet your needs. We expect this. We accept this. With the One AutoCAD 2019 release you’ll get the classic Autodesk AutoCAD-based vertical solutions now called Toolsets. You’ll have to customize the Toolset to make that work too. Perhaps the new Toolset…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 03, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Style Management, Style Import, Style Purge, CAD Standards, template
People ask how come our Framework of Civil 3D products don’t use the classic NCS utility layers? Honestly, most civil engineering and survey organization customers tend to like our NCS compliant set of utility Keys and Layers better. Who knew?
People do tend to forget or overlook that the NCS is large building and building project centric. Simply put, the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 07, 2018
Tags NCS, Layer Standards, utility, CAD Standards, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, spreadsheet, standard keys, Major Key, Minor Key, color, layer color, ACI, RGB
This time of year I often hear “I am new to Civil 3D.”
Did the boss have a holiday visit from the Ghost of Christmas Future? Maybe it’s only the winter season? Do civil engineers and surveyors finally have time to tackle new software? Nah. Maybe it’s because they got new hardware with Windows 10 and discovered their old software won’t even run? Nah. Maybe they decided…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 27, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, Civil 3D 2016, Upgrade, Jump Kit, Templates Only