A Civil 3D CAD Manager from a regional civil engineering firm called me the other day. The topic of the Civil 3D Survey functionality for one reason or another came up in our conversation. For those of you who follow this blog, you know I’m a Civil 3D Survey fan for a host of reasons.
The CAD Manager claimed his firm had tried Survey once or twice, but these days ignored…
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Tench Tilghman
Jun 21, 2018
Tags survey, survey db, Symbol Set, alignment, point group, iPOD, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018
Customers do often ask about the Symbols supplied with the Framework for Civil 3D. We call this collection of resources and tools a Symbol Set. Just like those familiar Sets in Civil 3D a Framework Symbol Set is a collected and managed system. This practically means that a Symbol Set collection is more than the sum of its parts.
As…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 19, 2018
Tags symbol, Symbol Set, Point Style, spreadsheet, Blocks Only, block, Tool Palettes, Speadsheet Tools, Civil 3D 2019, video
People often ask me what makes the Framework for Civil 3D special and different. In fairness everyone wants an answer that speaks to their current need. Let’s just call it - the state of their Civil 3D usage.
If you are a Civil 3D newbie crawling up out of Eagle Point or something, you look at the entire Civil 3D templates and Civil 3D styles challenge a…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 14, 2018
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, symbol, spreadsheet, Civil 3D 2019, Adaptive, management, change management
Too often our AutoCAD tool user perspective tends to get in the way of productive work. Let’s put the issue in frank terms. People think we use AutoCAD to draw pictures. Well, don’t we? But AutoCAD employs data to create pictures. This is something entirely different. Civil 3D employs an even more structured form of data than raw AutoCAD. I like to call this…
The Civil 3D Data Behind
That…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 07, 2018
Tags surface, import, export, workflow, Civil 3D 2019, Infraworks, video, data, publish on demand, iPOD
Inside Civil 3D Autodesk uses the common names and terms for civil engineering and survey stuff. However, Civil 3D Features (collected programming objects that work together) can and do behave quite differently from old school CAD objects. We all stumble over this Civil 3D reality a bit.
Last time we talked about Civil 3D’s outwardly convoluted mechanics of Point…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 05, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, alignment, offset alignment, offset profile, superelevation, video