Autodesk has made it no secret that if you want to get and employ Project Explorer for Civil 3D a subscription to the AEC Collection is in your future. Whether or not that is fair to existing Autodesk Civil 3D stand-alone customers is a moot point from the Autodesk’s corporate perspective. Autodesk is obviously committed to adding and improving…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 03, 2020
Tags Project Explorer, AU 2020, AEC Collection, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Construction Cloud, video
The Virtual Autodesk University 2020 event is still on-going. AU 2020 is free. There is no registration fee for AU 2020. You might want to take advantage of the horde of recorded AU 2020 session content that is available. My guess is that Autodesk will tally over 100,000 event attendees worldwide when AU 2020 is all said and done. That is 10 times the number of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 19, 2020
Tags AU 2020, Construction Cloud, BIM 360, BIM 360 Design, Autodesk Docs, BIM Collaborate, BIM Collaborate Pro, AEC Collection, Grading Optimization, video
Autodesk released the Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.5.1 Update yesterday. That was just in time for the first day of Autodesk University 2020. Whew. The latest Civil 3D 2020.5.1 updates all previous releases and Updates of Civil 3D 2020. That includes the previously released and then recalled Civil 3D 2020.5 Update released in late September.
Autodesk…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 17, 2020
Tags AU 2020, training, implementation, customization, Project Management, CAD Standards, Civil 3D, Project Explorer, Infraworks
Let’s face it. Most of the time in Autodesk Civil 3D we all tend to initially shoot for some form of published annotation. It’s an old school CAD User’s habit. Let’s call this the lust for One and Done. For surveyors this may mean Point data out of Survey Dbs. The Lord knows, I hope you have moved beyond imported point files and COGO points to better manage your…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 05, 2020
Tags Label Style, Label Style Defaults, Style, Style Management, parcel, alignment, offset alignment, widening, publish on demand, iPOD
Another one of the truly maddening terms in Autodesk Civil 3D is that Reference word. Maybe Reference is not quite as confusing in Civil 3D as the word Point. But Reference appears to come close. We have External References, Data References, file references, and even Reference Templates. I could go on.
For reasons that may…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 15, 2020
Tags reference labels, reference text, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, surface, alignment, profile, Style Management, video