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Someone calls me up the other day with AutoCAD Civil 3D Pipes questions. Mike asks if our Production Solutions products will solve his specific storm drain Pipes labeling problem for his local municipal jurisdiction. That happens to be a major US metro that’s currently under water – literally under water. I’m not laughing at Mike. I’m laughing with him.

“The…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  pipes, Label Style, CAD Standards, City Standards

You know the drill. You get a job in a civil engineering and survey firm that hires you because you know AutoCAD Civil 3D. Heck. You passed the official Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D certification exam. In your hire day interview the firm owners even promise to upgrade to the latest release before you start.
That’s great. Opportunity knocks. Congrats.

The Plans of Mice and Men

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Happy New Year!
We find new ways to make AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 more productive in innovative ways. It's what we do.
There are new Release 6 updates for Civil 3D 2016 and Civil 3D 2015 Production Solution products available

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There I go and do it again. I bring up the rousing topic of Corridors and Code Set Styles. Last time I talked about Documented Civil 3D Subassemblies and other real world and powerful benefits of our Framework for Civil 3D production solution products for…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  corridor, Code Set Styles, codes, Assembly, Subassembly

Heck. No.
Linetypes work. Hardly anyone needs to mess with linetypes anymore. They are available standard linetypes for almost everything in every CAD discipline. With some adjustment they even work across multiple drafting disciplines. What do you mean by linetype style anyway?

Autodesk, please don’t change what works.

Heck. Yes.
The…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  linetype, Style, WATT