The calendar year 2020 portents to be more than the start of a new decade. We all likely expect the 2020 US election to be yet another watershed political event. How did the Playwright put it? “… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” I trust you do not miss the Solomonic allusion and sardonic irony implied in his famous words from McBeth. He did. Mind you,…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 19, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, interop, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, NCS, AIA, video
The best kind of Christmas presents are the things that bring both joy to your life and to your daily work. When you can deliver that blessing to your friends, customers, and even people you don’t know, that can be a wonderful thing. Nothing is comparable to the Good News - the reason for the season. Some smaller things can be great news too. You catch the drift.
A lot of…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 05, 2019
Tags Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Civil 3D 2020, AIA, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, Upgrade, Update, template, Reference Template, TREF, Style Library
Autodesk University 2019 is in the books. If Autodesk says true to form the AU 2019 Online courses and video recordings should be available later this month or early next year. We don’t have to wait. Hoorah. I caught up a little bit over the long Thanksgiving weekend by splitting my screen time between some great football (in multiple flavors of the sport) and some…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 03, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, training, points, parcel, surface, grading, alignment, profile, corridor, pipe network, plan production tool, section
Autodesk and Virgin Hyperloop One announced a new joint development partnership at Autodesk University 2019. The pair announced an alliance to explore new opportunities in extending the value of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for transportation route optimization, improved digital engineering, and construction workflows.
Maybe this means that someday…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 21, 2019
Tags Autodesk University, AU 2019, rail, BIM 360, Civil 3D, Dynamo, video
Autodesk is making a serious push to get the folks in Civil 3D Land to employ Autodesk’s cloud-based BIM 360 solutions. You might tend to want to pursue an ostrich strategy for BIM 360. That might not be a good idea. In some project-based contexts BIM 360 makes sense where you have aware partners who want to play the collaboration game more deeply. BIM 360 can make the management…
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Tench Tilghman
Oct 08, 2019
Tags Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2020, Infraworks, Update, Civil 3D 2019, interop, BIM 360, training, Connector