Autodesk purchased the ProjectExplorer for Civil 3D product back in mid-April. I said at that time this would/could be one of the best things Autodesk has done for Civil 3D in quite a while. The product went up somewhere into orbit and it just splashed down.
The new Autodesk Project Explorer for Civil 3D extension hit the street for AEC Collection…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 20, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Project Explorer, PE, Corridors, Assembly, Subassembly, alignment, feature line, point group, sample lines, profile, video
We all have things we want changed in Civil 3D. If you live and work in Civil 3D Land, you probably have more than a few Civil 3D Wish List items. I do. You do too. Some of those whines and moans are related to things Civil 3D cannot do yet. Others to the stuff Civil 3D cannot do very well from our perspective.
How we choose to work habitually matters significantly…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 11, 2020
Tags Civil 3D, Groundforce, alignment, offset alignment, profile, offset profile, superelevation, feature line, optionality, optimization, surface, grading
Out here in Civil 3D Land, we all recognize what I like to call Operations Engineering is the mainstay and/or core business for a great deal of survey and civil engineering work. Many commercial civil engineering firms are the public works departments for small towns and lots of pseudo/quasi departments and/or public agencies.
Infrastructure engineering,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 21, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Infraworks, ArcGIS, interop, Connector, pipe network, pipes, implementation, video, Upgrade
The Autodesk Civil 3D team made some major progress on the functionality of Pressure Pipes in Autodesk Civil 3D 2021. Lordy, Lordy! They finally introduced the concept and practice of the Runs into the Pressure Pipe interface and tools. Ok. If we use that now famous and comely term “Lordy”, some tongue in cheek is clearly understood. It is sort…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 12, 2020
Tags pressure pipe, pressure pipe network, Civil 3D 2021, layer state, Layer Standards, View, View Frame, video
Like many of you out there is Civil 3D Land, I do pay careful attention to what Autodesk has to say about the new features and benefits of the new release of Autodesk Civil 3D 2021. I strive to be a helpful skeptic not a cynic.
Civil 3D 2021 includes the usual mix of solid improvements to production capabilities, undocumented fixes to errant…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 23, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, hotfix, pressure pipe network, pressure pipe, video, WATT