Last time we explored Intelligent Publish on Demand method and practice inside Civil 3D with the new Surface Spot Label Style Expressions Set that is now available to Release 8 Jump Kit customers for Civil 3D 2021 and Civil 3D 2020. Yes. Even the basic rewards from Label Style Expression Set AddOns are substantial.
Before we address the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 09, 2021
Tags surface, video, Jump Kit, grading, corridor, site design, DWF, iPOD, Style Management, project template, AddOn
Our annotative work is mission critical to our performance and productivity in Autodesk Civil 3D. People do complain about the nuance and complexity of Civil 3D annotation. The work is on the mission critical path of the successful execution of the multiple deliverable sets of any civil engineering or survey project. Best we pay attention and acquire…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 12, 2020
Tags Label Style, Style, Style Management, XREF, DREF, annotation, annotative scale, video, iPOD, DWF, alignment
Should we wrap up the calendar year 2019 and unwrap a collection of the 10 best Civil 3D production tips? Why not. Everyone loves a top ten list. I used the production word here not the productivity one even though both definitely do apply in this context.
This post has a decided Civil 3D management and implementation bias over the classic Civil 3D user…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 30, 2019
Tags BIM 360, ArcInfo, Connector, dwf, TREF, Batch Save, corridor, names, data reference, project template, Project Management, project, Civil 3D 2020
Maybe you noticed? There is a big difference between your Civil 3D model building drawings and your Civil 3D publication drawings. Are there are some other types and stages of Civil 3D drawings in between these two? Civil 3D Drawings have states or even phases. If we have phases in projects, then our critical path will probably include drawings that change type…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 10, 2019
Tags iPOD, drawing type, dynamic model, DREF, TREF, IREF, dwf, Project Management, project template, placeholder, template, sheet template, sheet set template, QAQC
My Super Bowl weekend I spent rebuilding my workday computer workstation. Sometimes the painful truth of the perverse nature of inanimate objects slaps you upside the head. We all know the drill. The whine is ready before its time. No drive whine for me. A new fat SSD rocks.
I probably install more versions of a lot of Autodesk apps than most folk. Afterall the Framework for Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 05, 2019
Tags dwf, layers, ULAYERS, plan production tool, project template, video, publish on demand, Release 7, Release 8