Once in a while I read a post somewhere else that makes me nervous for the folks that read it.
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The Being Civil blog is pretty good about not handing out bogus and/or partially incorrect information. No one is perfect. I've done it myself a few times with all the best intentions.
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 15, 2012
Tags bugs, Description Key Set, import, Style Management, management, standards
One of the best things about AutoCAD Civil 3D are the visuals that Civil 3D Styles and the backend AutoCAD display engine can produce. If we employ these capabilities to our advantage they are:
More Than Eye Candy
These tools and capabilities can…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 13, 2012
Tags surface, QA, QC, Surface Style, Volume Dashboard, TIN, grading, grading group
For reasons that I trust are pretty obvious to all by now, I routinely get lots of questions about AutoCAD Civil 3D Point Styles and their "strange" behaviors.
The Choices of Confusion
Inside Civil 3D we…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 13, 2011
Tags point display, survey point, COGO points, point group, Point Label Style, Point Style
People wave their hands and talk about "Model Based" software, "Model Based" design, and BIM. What do these words really mean where the rubber hits the road?
Maybe the answer is simple, but it sure appears that takes a while for people to get the unexpected consequences.
Model-Based is Simple and Elegant
We build a "reasonably realistic" model of what we want…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 03, 2011
Tags publiish, publish on demand, Style Management, Style, template
AutoCAD Civil 3D template and Civil 3D Style development can be both painful and expensive but it doesn't have to be. Mostly this happens to us because we apply the wrong type of human intelligence to the problem at hand. This is human and understandable.
Ok. You have Civil 3D installed and start to use the Autodesk example "ncs" templates and styles that got installed.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 18, 2011
Tags performance, customization, template, Style, Style Management