Everyone needs better and safer places for productive play in Civil 3D. There are mission critical personal and corporate reasons why we need better Civil 3D sandboxes in our civil engineering and survey organizations. How good is your Civil 3D sandbox?
Civil 3D skills are personal. Productivity improvement requires proactive time spent to learn to employ them. That requires a consistent…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 11, 2019
Tags corridors, Style Library, Style, sandbox, Civil 3D 2020, InstantOn, Jump Kit, video, Project Management
Days before the 4th of July holiday weekend, a non-customer emailed me to ask whether it was ok for him to employ the resources structure employed in the Framework for Civil 3D for his internal company standards for Civil 3D.
“Be my guest.
My only request is that if you find an improvement drop me another email that explains it.”We document all…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jul 09, 2019
Tags CAD Standards, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, customization, Project Management, productivity, video
I am on a mission for the adoption of Reference Template (TREF) technology in your working civil engineering and survey projects in Civil 3D. Some could call it a rant. We need to think about the Civil 3D template and Civil 3D Style problems differently. I argue we need new language like the TREF and Target shorthands to talk about the substantive…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 20, 2019
Tags project template, Reference Template, placeholder, Project Management, Civil 3D 2019, Style Management, video, Civil 3D 2020, template
Autodesk released the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018.3 Update in the first week of April. This update announcement isn’t an April Fools hoax. This third, and probably final, Update for Civil 3D 2018 basically includes a rasher of interoperability enhancements and many related fix it updates for Civil 3D 2018. A detailed listing from the readme is included below.
The AutoCAD…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Apr 09, 2019
Tags Update, Civil 3D 2018, Batch Save, Release 7, Release 8, Project Management
Smart Civil 3D users in recent releases can assemble together Civil 3D Project Templates, Civil 3D Placeholders, and Civil 3D Reference Templates into a powerful working combination. We don’t want to ignore PTSD – Project Template Structure Defaults.
The intersections of these three technologies produce useful and productive…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 12, 2019
Tags project template, Reference Template, placeholder, Project Management, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Style Management, video