Autodesk celebrated Halloween and Election Week in the United States with the release of their latest version of the Autodesk Desktop Connector (ADC). The Autodesk official release date is listed as Oct 30, 2024. Actual downloads of the new release from the public download page were not available until the early days of the first week of November for reasons unknown.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 07, 2024
Tags Desktop Connector, ADC, Project Management, Reference Explorer, project, project template, Autodesk Docs
Sometimes a broken Reference problem in Civil 3D will stare us right in the face and we still miss and/or cannot find and/or see the reason why. Been there. Done that. Got my T shirt. How can this be? Out here in Civil 3D Land every day we use this vital and basic file Reference stuff like our lives depend on it.
If you tell me that the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 10, 2024
Tags DWF, XREF, IREF, TREF, project template, Data Shortcut Manager, Reference Explorer, Project Management
Perhaps you noticed? There is a big difference between our Civil 3D model construction drawings and our Civil 3D publication drawings. Are there are some other types and/or stages of Civil 3D drawings in between these two? Civil 3D drawings have states or phases. If we have phases in projects, then our critical path will probably include drawings that change type…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 01, 2024
Tags iPOD, drawing type, dynamic model, Project Management, project template, placeholder, QAQC
Lots of folks in Civil 3D Land are fully committed to Feature Line based grading design in Autodesk Civil 3D. There’s nothing wrong with that. The Grading Design by Feature Line Heuristic is well understood and employed by most civil engineering and survey professionals. Civil 3D is loaded with useful practical commands and Ribbon tools to help…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 30, 2024
Tags grading, heuristics, alignment, profile, surface, Project Management, video, DREF, corridors, Multiple Baseline Corridors
Autodesk released the new Autodesk Civil 3D 2025 last month. Most of us in Civil 3D Land have more important work to do than install and test the latest and greatest Civil 3D. We have civil engineering and survey project work to get out the door. Truly, the latest Civil 3D 2025 is a faster, less buggy, and generally a better version of the software. Trust me. Sooner,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 09, 2024
Tags Upgrade, Update, Batch Save, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Project Management, project template, Civil 3D 2025, Civil 3D 2024