Winter is the season when many in Civil 3D Land tend to deploy new releases of software. Autodesk usually drops an end of year bunch of product Updates. Folks also tend to acquire new AEC partners. Hoorah!
It is a cyclical thing…Maybe an Advent of Spring thing. The partners are companies and organizations that we will have to: collaborate with; work with on new projects; and basically, learn…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 23, 2020
Tags CAD Standards, AutoCAD, QAQC, template, Reference Template, TREF, XREF, IREF, customization, Civil 3D
The title for this post sounds like something out of Harry Potter, an epic fantasy, or perhaps a military sci-fi space opera. It’s a mystery. Is The Tuple the newest Marvel action hero blockbuster movie due out for the July 4th 2020 weekend? If so, I want a cut for the title name…
The Rise of The Tuple
What the heck is a Tuple?
You employ tuples…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 14, 2020
Tags Style Management, TREF, Dynamo, template, Reference Template, structure, tuple, implementation, CAD Standards
The best kind of Christmas presents are the things that bring both joy to your life and to your daily work. When you can deliver that blessing to your friends, customers, and even people you don’t know, that can be a wonderful thing. Nothing is comparable to the Good News - the reason for the season. Some smaller things can be great news too. You catch the drift.
A lot of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 05, 2019
Tags Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Civil 3D 2020, AIA, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, Upgrade, Update, template, Reference Template, TREF, Style Library
The first thing you are going to want to know about the new Civil 3D Projects in BIM 360 Design is - Will this cloudy stuff work for our Civil 3D projects? You sat in on the Civil 3D Futures session at Autodesk University 2019 or any of the AU 2019 sessions that dipped their toes into the new Civil 3D for BIM 360 Design. Perhaps you’ve watched one of recorded webinars available…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 27, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, BIM 360, project template, project, Project Management, Connector, DREF, XREF, IREF, TREF, Reference Template, data shortcut
Some say Civil 3D creates for us all a struggle between Style management and Style choice.
This statement is a false dichotomy. It’s a straw man argument based on the pretense that more technical control over the details of work correlates to, or is, the same thing as: better management; improved production workflows; and more profitable results.
The One Civil 3D Template…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 14, 2019
Tags Reference Template, TREF, Label Style, Label Set, Style Management, Style, style purge, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019