The Framework for Civil 3D out of the box supports multiple Layer Standards with adaptive conversion. The NCS 6.0, NCS 6.0 AIA and older NCS 5.0 flavors are supplied for example. Why would anyone want to do that? Everyone one knows one Layer Standard is nasty enough to maintain and employ. The common misconception of a Layer Standard at times sounds something like…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 07, 2020
Tags CAD Standards, Layer Standards, layer state, Release 8, Release 7, standard keys, video, customization
This news is no surprise to many of our Framework for Civil 3D customers. Based on our initial testing of the shipping build of Autodesk Civil 3D 2021, both the current Release 8 and Release 7 builds (based on the last Civil 3D 2020 Updates) of the Framework for Civil 3D products all upgrade and run great in the public release of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 21, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Upgrade, Batch Save
Autodesk officially released Autodesk Civil 3D 2021 and the many related Autodesk Civil interoperability and Civil product development tools. All the Civil 3D 2021 help files and resources are live.
Autodesk Subscription customers should be able to download the product from the Autodesk Subscription Center.
Autodesk Civil 3D Free trials and install…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 16, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Infraworks, Revit, ArcGIS, Connector, Release 8, interop, video, pressure pipe, pressure pipe network
Survey is not Design. Civil engineering Design isn’t public works Operations. Many can argue that modern Operations Engineering is effectively another discipline with different management goals and processes. Infrastructure is expensive to design and build, and more expensive to maintain. Public Works infrastructure is complex, interdepartmental, sometimes inter-agency, and often…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 19, 2020
Tags Release 8, Release 7, Jump Kit, Templates Only, InstantOn, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2018, Government, CAD Standards, video
Our customers love the fact that the Framework for Civil 3D works in Civil 3D production environments in multiple releases of Civil 3D right out of the box. Afterall, that is why we named the Framework desktop and basic Civil 3D user tool collection InstantOn. There are InstantOn production pretenders out there in Civil 3D Land. There are really…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 10, 2020
Tags Jump Kit, Templates Only, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, CAD Standards, implementation, InstantOn, Upgrade, Update