New Civil 3D Updates are a good thing. The Civil 3D code gets more stable and things work better for most Civil 3D users who do the do in Civil 3D Land. Hoorah. We all know by now the newer tools and new features in new tools can sometimes be more problematic. Both the recent Civil 3D 2019.3+ Updates and the CiviI 2020.1+ Updates play par for the course. Lots of good with a few new wonky wonks.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 17, 2019
Tags Update, Civil 3D 2019, Civil 3D 2020, TREF, Reference Template, Drawing Settings, layers, CAD Standards, Object Settings, Style Management, interop
The Classic Template Style Collection Methods are the most common template maintenance methodologies used to produce a target of collected Style resources. Many people consider a Civil 3D Template target to be their known good and their Style management end goal. This perspective produces some unrealistic expectations.
The…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 07, 2019
Tags Style, Style Management, Label Style, Label Style Defaults, CAD Standards, customization, maintenance, template, Reference Template, settings
Civil 3D’s Object Layer Drawing Settings are extremely useful. The Civil 3D Object Layer Settings automatically make the layer assignment for each specific Civil 3D Feature – those things in the Civil 3D Toolspace.
We know that can confuse the Civil 3D newbie. Each of the various components of each specific Civil 3D Feature can be displayed on completely…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 18, 2018
Tags Civil 3D 2019, Drawing Settings, settings, Reference Template, video, Civil 3D 2018, Object Settings, Layer Standards
If you’re a sports fan, you got to love this last weekend. Both the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Finals finished on back to back nights. These championship events clarify the term performance under pressure. When we talk about applied personal and team skill in those contexts, push comes to shove takes on a whole new meaning. This brings me to the question of…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 15, 2017
Tags iPOD, publish on demand, video, training, plotting, pdf, DGN, dwg
You employ the Civil 3D Import Points tool all the time. This can be a good thing employed properly or something very scary. It could be a flashback to 1984 or Animal Farm and be horribly Orwellian. You may recall that “All pigs are created equal”.…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Mar 22, 2016
Tags survey, survey db, survey figure, point, point display, setup, settings