The maintenance, upkeep, and Updates of our on-going Civil 3D Projects are a big deal for most of us in Civil 3D Land. Some persons handle that entire structure and process personally. Other groups plan to do it corporately. A few manage to Collaborate Pro. Most of the time, we all simply row and bail like mad to…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 17, 2021
Tags XREF, DREF, TREF, IREF, XML, Project Management, BIM Collaborate Pro, project template, Reference Template
Any exhaustive discussion about the large topic of the Alignment in Autodesk Civil 3D is a serial and long-term effort. Even the familiar fundamentals of civil engineering Horizontal Control are nuanced for this one of many roles for the Civil 3D Design Control Manager. We certainly need to align our thinking with the Civil 3D functional and workflow…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 15, 2021
Tags alignment, alignment type, feature line, horizontal control, vertical control, Project Management, reference point, station, segment types
We all work today in one Release of Civil 3D or another. Folks these days appear to wait until Autodesk releases the Civil 3D Update 1 of any particular Release to move on. Only then do they begin to deploy and employ the latest and greatest of Autodesk Civil 3D. Makes sense to me.
Lots of other folks continue choose to remain one or more releases back from the current “bleeding” edge release.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 08, 2021
Tags Upgrade, Update, Batch Save, Data Shortcut Manager, DREF, Data Shortcut Editor, template, TREF, Project Management
I enjoy finding examples and folks who creatively learn to employ the Power of Not to production work in Autodesk Civil 3D. Huh? What the hay does the Power of Not mean? I trust that you do understand the difference between the Boolean logic of AND and OR in expressions. Eheh.
NOT is the third chord (the…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 25, 2021
Tags Data Shortcut Manager, Data Behind, not keys, Project Management, points, Point Label Style, site design, corridors, grading
Your organization or firm invests money in the world’s most popular civil engineering and design software – Autodesk Civil 3D. You (or someone else) works hard to make the Civil 3D software run productively and publish your civil engineering design or survey work acceptably. Odds are you have something that works. Can we do better? Can we improve that?
Every Civil 3D expert and most experienced…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Feb 10, 2021
Tags customization, Civil 3D, implementation, Style Management, Project Management, template, project template, sheet template, Reference Template