Autodesk leaped into that occasional Leap Year Day with the release of the latest Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.3 Update. We begin Autodesk’s version of March Madness. The annual Autodesk Right of Spring begins in Civil 3D Land with this typical cleanup Civil 3D Update before the next numbered release of Civil 3D.
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Tench Tilghman
Mar 03, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Release 8, Release 7, Update, Upgrade, Batch Save, TREF, ArcGIS, Connector, BIM 360
If you tool around the cadpilot site, you will discover lots and lots of in-depth Civil 3D content, videos, and help. All the video content produced by other experts on the site is curated. I personally watch and seriously consider the viability of the video content you find here.
If it makes sense, I’ll often add constructive comments on the video in the…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 13, 2020
Tags Jump Kit, Templates Only, training, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, implementation, customization, spreadsheet
We released the latest and greatest version of the Framework for Civil 3D Codes Spreadsheet Tool this week. The Codes Tool is intentionally both Civil 3D and Framework release agnostic. We are talking about managing the Codes we employ to gather and annotate locations in Civil 3D. The language that we employ to talk about locations (the Codes) doesn’t care about…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 11, 2020
Tags Jump Kit, Release 8, Civil 3D 2020, codes, Survey Codes, figures, figure prefix db, spreadsheet, Layer Standards
The Framework for Civil 3D includes a powerful Survey Codes Spreadsheet Tool. The tool is a favorite of many Framework customers. The Codes Tool is employed to externally manage and maintain both Survey and Design Codes that may be employed in Descriptions Keys, Description Key Sets, Figure Prefix Db, Survey Queries, Point Group definitions, and even Civil 3D Corridor…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 06, 2020
Tags Jump Kit, Civil 3D, spreadsheet, AddOn, Release 8, Release 7, Survey Codes, points, figures, figure prefix db, customization, NCS, NCS 6.0
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,…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 19, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, interop, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, NCS, AIA, video