One of my long-standing Civil 3D wish list items is a basic form of elementary Audit functionality. I acknowledge that even the concept of some form of audit in Civil 3D is unlikely to reach high into an everyday Civil 3D user’s wish list for obvious reasons. We all get it.
“I already know what’s wrong with my drawing.”
You Manager types…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 25, 2019
Tags WATT, Civil 3D 2020, property, AUDIT, wishlist, Project Management, Style Management
The Framework for Civil 3D is a standard to build your standards from. The Framework is all about the Adaptive Systems Management of Civil 3D. Why is adaptive systems management important? Lacking a systems approach to CAD Standards in Civil 3D, we are confined to standards ruled only by the immediacy of preference.
Don’t get me wrong. Preference and choice…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 18, 2019
Tags CAD Standards, linetype, spreadsheet, customization, implementation, Civil 3D 2020, video, change management
The original Civil 3D development team initially refused allow us all to employ the available and built in Property Set Style definition tools in Civil 3D for many releases. We endured something like ten releases of Civil 3D without it. Arrrgh. A few of us Civil 3D developers asked. What’s the problem?
To build and employ Property Sets Civil 3D users would…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 16, 2019
Tags Property Set, Civil 3D 2020, Dynamo, Style, data, video, BIM, Style Management
Everyone needs better and safer places for productive play in Civil 3D. There are mission critical personal and corporate reasons why we need better Civil 3D sandboxes in our civil engineering and survey organizations. How good is your Civil 3D sandbox?
Civil 3D skills are personal. Productivity improvement requires proactive time spent to learn to employ them. That requires a consistent…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 11, 2019
Tags corridors, Style Library, Style, sandbox, Civil 3D 2020, InstantOn, Jump Kit, video, Project Management
Days before the 4th of July holiday weekend, a non-customer emailed me to ask whether it was ok for him to employ the resources structure employed in the Framework for Civil 3D for his internal company standards for Civil 3D.
“Be my guest.
My only request is that if you find an improvement drop me another email that explains it.”We document all…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 09, 2019
Tags CAD Standards, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, customization, Project Management, productivity, video