The calendar year 2020 portents to be more than the start of a new decade. We all likely expect the 2020 US election to be yet another watershed political event. How did the Playwright put it? “… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” I trust you do not miss the Solomonic allusion and sardonic irony implied in his famous words from McBeth. He did. Mind you,…
Read more
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 19, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, interop, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, NCS, AIA, video
The best kind of Christmas presents are the things that bring both joy to your life and to your daily work. When you can deliver that blessing to your friends, customers, and even people you don’t know, that can be a wonderful thing. Nothing is comparable to the Good News - the reason for the season. Some smaller things can be great news too. You catch the drift.
A lot of…
Read more
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 05, 2019
Tags Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Civil 3D 2020, AIA, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, Upgrade, Update, template, Reference Template, TREF, Style Library
Autodesk released Civil 3D 2020.2 Update last week and then re-released a new build of Update 2 a couple of days later. Oops. I can only guess someone discovered some fault in the sexy new BIM 360 Civil 3D projects in the cloud tools that are the big new thing in Civil 3D 2020.2. More on that in a bit. Who knows what? I searched in vain for Civil 3D Object Model…
Read more
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Nov 05, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, Release 7, BIM 360, Jump Kit, Templates Only
The latest Release 8 of the Framework for Civil 3D 2020.1 delivers better production to civil engineers and surveyors from Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.1. The supplied Civil 3D Styles and other supplied resources even work earlier releases of Civil 3D.
The Framework for Civil 3D is an Adaptive Managed System for all the many resources…
Read more
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 17, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Update, Upgrade, Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only
Let’s face it. Some Updates to Autodesk Civil 3D are pretty much a no brainer. A new full release of Civil 3D may introduce new unforeseen problems into your project work and workflows. But those incremental Civil 3D Updates often fix important problems in the software.
The recent Civil 3D 2019.3 Update qualifies as one of those important no-brainer Updates.…
Read more
Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 23, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Release 7, Release 8, Update, Service Pack, Jump Kit, Templates Only, video, Style Management