For good reasons Autodesk Civil 3D doesn’t police whether we pile a bunch of Civil 3D Features into a single drawing and then design, QAQC, and publish that way. Civil 3D doesn’t care. We manage this Civil 3D reality or not. In the real world, most of us are unlikely to work on a project that requires only a single drawing. We do not work in a world where civil engineering and survey…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 13, 2025
Tags project template, customization, implementation, CAD Standards, Project Management, performance
Some folks will unquestionably wait for an upcoming Autodesk Civil 3D 2025.1 Update before they upgrade to the 2025 release of Civil 3D. That’s a historical habit thing, do’n ja know. Before and during the recent July 4th week, Autodesk released the Civil 3D 2025.02 Update, a couple of significant Civil 3D Tools, and those sometimes vital…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 10, 2024
Tags Civil 2D 2025, Toolbox, Desktop Connector, transformation, Survey, Reference Explorer, geotechnical, Update
Out here in Civil 3D Land we do civil engineering and survey work. That means that grading and Civil 3D Surfaces play a significant part of our daily workflows. Thankfully, Autodesk has been working hard on improved Civil 3D performance. How we structure our Civil 3D Projects and how we perform some basic Civil 3D Project maintenance work can matter.
One…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 08, 2024
Tags surface, corridor surface, Data Shortcut Manager, DREF, performance, Project Management, TIN, Civil 3D
A government agency IT person called the other day and asked if we could sell him the Civil 3D Coordinate System Transformation Tool. One of his Civil 3D users pointed him to this site of the Framework for Civil 3D for some reason. Maybe the user watched a video?
Good news. I was happy to explain that the coordinate system transformation…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 19, 2023
Tags coordinate system, transformation, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2024, conversion, video
Autodesk Forma is an initial set of capabilities of the AEC industry cloud for early-stage planning and design. The Autodesk Cloud product is a new member of the Autodesk AEC Collection and may be employed with Autodesk Flex licensing. Autodesk Forma is also available as a standalone license. Forma was previously called Spacemaker.
Autodesk…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 10, 2023
Tags AEC Collection, Forma, Revit, Infraworks, 2024, video, cloud