Everyone loves to hate training meetings. Maybe it’s that evil, ever-so-banal meeting word.
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If you produce training meetings, you seem to always work too hard to get something compelling and informative put together.
If you attend them, you hope for something new and interesting. As a professional you want to be challenged with real adult education or not.
God forbid, we have…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 13, 2017
Tags training, implementation, management, performance
Most folks 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 Label Style power tools. Inside Civil 3D there is the simple and then there is the sophisticated. Is it possible that both are possible at the same time?
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 24, 2015
Tags Description Key, Description Key Set, Format, spreadsheet
Lately I’ve been given the privilege of training a bunch of folks in AutoCAD Civil 3D who never used any Autodesk CAD product before. Some employed other CAD software and/or CAD like software. Some never even used CAD in any form before. They still got their civil and survey work done. They did without. Now they’re excited about the new possibilities before them.
They have an unexpected…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 24, 2012
Tags implementation, interface, publiish, publish on demand, Project Management, management, performance
Frankly, I was More than a bit surprised Autodesk decided to go with the “2013” moniker for the release. Were you? If Autodesk is not going to be superstitious, we shouldn’t be either.
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Should we be afraid? Not at all.
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 29, 2012
Tags performance, 2013, Civil 3D, profile, alignment
Can we really count the improvements in the next release of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013? There are lots more than 13 of them of course. No one is interested in a number count anyway. We want to get our survey and civil engineering work done quicker and with less hassle. We want more robust software that includes more capabilities to tackle our real world problems.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 27, 2012
Tags Civil 3D, 2013, performance