Most of us in Civil 3D Land are fans and daily users of Autodesk Civil 3D. We all can guess, based on history and leaks in the Autodesk cistern, that we’ll be seeing the latest and greatest release of Autodesk Civil 3D 2021 any day now. The specifics of the new release may not knock your socks off. Many of us have other concerns at the moment. The…
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Tench Tilghman
Apr 14, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Revit, AutoCAD 2021, Dynamo, Dynamo Player, Layer Standards, layer state, customization, video
The Framework for Civil 3D supports multiple versions and flavors of the NCS out of the box. We call this capability Adaptive Layer Standards. Adaptive, consistent and robust are some of the many benefits you get from employing our Managed System for Autodesk Civil 3D.
The Framework for Civil 3D Release…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 07, 2020
Tags NCS, NCS 6.0, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, Civil 3D 2020, implementation, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2021
The mastery of Points is nothing to take lightly in Autodesk Civil 3D. Like that old saying, “It’s all about location, location, location, Baby.” Points are foundational in the civil engineering and survey professional disciplines. Then your favorite software vendor’s programmers take over.
Points are one of the most overused words in Autodesk Civil 3D speak.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 31, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Update, Description Key Set, figure prefix db, customization, video, WATT, spreadsheet
The Coronavirus crisis is upon us all. Autodesk officially announced temporary free access to Autodesk Cloud Collaboration Products and some delays and changes to future billing and licensing policies in an effort to somewhat mitigate their customer issues during the crisis. The Autodesk details and official links to more information are listed and linked below.
You have…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 24, 2020
Tags BIM 360, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2021, Jump Kit, Templates Only, video, free, training, implementation
Survey is not Design. Civil engineering Design isn’t public works Operations. Many can argue that modern Operations Engineering is effectively another discipline with different management goals and processes. Infrastructure is expensive to design and build, and more expensive to maintain. Public Works infrastructure is complex, interdepartmental, sometimes inter-agency, and often…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 19, 2020
Tags Release 8, Release 7, Jump Kit, Templates Only, InstantOn, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Government, CAD Standards, video