Over the last few releases of Civil 3D Autodesk has made a pretty concerted effort to improve the design, analysis, and the important annotative functionality of Pipe and Pressure Pipe Systems. Many of us who use Civil 3D complain about all of this for good reason. For many civil engineering and survey organizations this type of work in their projects is their bread and butter. Particularly in operational…
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Tench Tilghman
May 28, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Jump Kit, pipe network, pressure pipe, Label Style, pipes, Release 8, Release 7
Autodesk was kind enough in the Civil 3D 2020 release (and all AutoCAD 2020 based products) to recognize One Drive, Drop Box, Box, and Azure clouds file locations that are exposed in your Windows Profile in the File Open boxes. Based on what cloud apps you have installed, the Places list in AutoCAD…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 21, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, implementation, CAD Standards, video, project template
The Framework for Civil 3D supports Adaptive Layer Standards in many releases of Civil 3D. That means you can produce project work in one official and compliant Layer Standard - maybe the NCS 6.0 and still produce deliverables in perhaps another Layer Standard like the NCS 6.0 AIA standard.
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Sounds crazy… We know.
It’s all about the hidden potential…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 16, 2019
Tags Release 8, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Layer Standards, NCS 6.0, STB, CTB, CAD Standards, Adaptive, plotstyle
The Framework for Civil 3D is the most complete, robust, and adaptable integrated system to customize, implement, and manage Autodesk Civil 3D in a production environment. The Framework somehow manages to support multiple releases of Civil 3D in multiple national standards at the same time.
Yes. The Framework for Civil 3D 2020 is coming soon. We’re head…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 14, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Jump Kit, InstantOn, Templates Only, Upgrade
This April has had it’s share of surprises. Folks seem to pay attention when this happens or miss the consequences. Is this April’s theme the politics of the clueless?
Reminds me of that old TV game show Truth or Consequences. Truth or Consequences made Bob Barker, also of The Price is Right fame, a household name long before there was even…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 23, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, Release 7, Update, Upgrade, Jump Kit, Templates Only