Autodesk Civil 3D is a feature rich and complex design environment for civil engineers. Civil 3D requires customization to be usable in real world projects. The cost of this development can easily be more than the cost of the software itself. The on-going maintenance and total cost of ownership costs are often worse. Inside the Framework for Civil 3D products we supply…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 27, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Release 8, design, survey, style, CAD Standards, Update
I do get interesting questions from the people who manage the Civil 3D production environments for organizations. These folk tend to be “smarter than the average bear” to quote that famous Yogi. He knows best about those things, Boo Boo. Most questioners are pretty well-informed and opinionated about all things Civil 3D. This make sense. The nature and natural selection of their jobs depend…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 24, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Release 8, CAD Standards, customization, Framework
Folk complain that Civil 3D is not really user-friendly for Site Design. This is bunk. The complaint is true only if you insist that site design in Civil 3D should be like it was for years in old school CAD software. We insist our AutoCAD skills are more important than new Civil 3D skills and capabilities. About the only thing Civil 3D has in common with that old software is Civil 3D’s use of similar…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 29, 2018
Tags standard keys, Major Key, Minor Key, site design, site parcel, corridors, intersection, parcel, CAD Standards, Adaptive Template Building Blocks
The management of a Civil 3D customization and the many resources required by the software to function well in a Civil 3D production environment is no small task. When it is time to upgrade to a new release or a significant new Civil 3D Update, it pays to be aware of and to employ the latest available tools. Meet the BS Wingman.
Civil 3D Batch Save Utility
Autodesk released the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 20, 2018
Tags Batch Save, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2017, Upgrade, Update, customization, CAD Standards, management
MoreCompetency, Inc released a new and updated open source list of our Civilized Keys for NCS 6.0. These are specific to the NCS 6.0 release. By popular customer request we included in this updated NCS 6.0 list all the AEC Discipline Keys in addition to the traditional Survey and Civil discipline ones supported directly in the Framework for Civil 3D in the past. In other words,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 15, 2018
Tags NCS, NCS 6.0, Layer Standards, standard keys, Major Key, Minor Key, CAD Standards