Our civil engineering customers say that Framework for Civil 3D provides an awesome design solution for Civil 3D. You get production Civil 3D templates that work. These include one of the largest and most robust Civil 3D Styles libraries on the planet bar none.
Our survey customers say that the Framework for Civil 3D provides an awesome survey solution for…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 01, 2018
Tags codes, survey point, survey figure, survey db, Description Key, Description Key Set, point group, Speadsheet Tools, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018
AutoCAD Civil 3D can be the software surveyors love to hate. Maybe that should read hate to love? Unquestionably, Autodesk immediately messed with the established survey CAD workflows. In truth, they even messed with the core essential meanings of many familiar things like Point, Figure, and Alignment.
Historically, Autodesk also probably took way too long to sort out the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 27, 2018
Tags survey, survey db, point group, Description Key Set, survey figure, implementation, surface, points, Point Style, Point Label Style, video
Most civil engineering and survey firms employ a simple form of codes in the Format column of their Description Keys. There’s no problem with that, but you may be missing some very useful functionality built into AutoCAD Civil 3D’s Description Keys Sets and annotative Label Style power tools.
Inside Civil 3D there is the simple and then there is the simply…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 19, 2017
Tags not keys, points, figure, figure prefix db, standard keys, Description Key Set, Description Key, codes, survey db, video
We talked Civil 3D gone wild recently. We explored our ability to improve our daily productivity by the use of repetitive patterns and the logical NOT tool in our Survey Codes, Description Keys, and Point Group definitions in the post NOT Keys in Civil 3D.
The practical realities of Not Key patterns…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 05, 2017
Tags not keys, points, figure, figure prefix db, standard keys, Description Key Set, Description Key, codes
We examined in detail how we can take advantage of Civil 3D’s arcane methods of interpreting and resolving point data in a multiple post series on point display resolutions in AutoCAD Civil 3D. The topic of NOT Keys kept coming up. A couple of folks asked the basic question,
“What is a NOT Key?”
It might be a better question…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 28, 2017
Tags search, sort, not keys, Description Key, Description Key Set, wildcard