We all work today in one Release of Civil 3D or another. Folks these days appear to wait until Autodesk releases the Civil 3D Update 1 of any particular Release to move on. Only then do they begin to deploy and employ the latest and greatest of Autodesk Civil 3D. Makes sense to me.
Lots of other folks continue choose to remain one or more releases back from the current “bleeding” edge release.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 08, 2021
Tags Upgrade, Update, Batch Save, Data Shortcut Manager, DREF, Data Shortcut Editor, template, TREF, Project Management
Autodesk leaped into that occasional Leap Year Day with the release of the latest Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.3 Update. We begin Autodesk’s version of March Madness. The annual Autodesk Right of Spring begins in Civil 3D Land with this typical cleanup Civil 3D Update before the next numbered release of Civil 3D.
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I think it is safe to say Autodesk…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 03, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Release 8, Release 7, Update, Upgrade, Batch Save, TREF, ArcGIS, Connector, BIM 360
We use Autodesk Civil 3D. We are dependent on the software to get our project work done and to execute our production work and deliverables. Beyond those obvious ones, the number of formal data Dependencies inside Civil 3D and our civil engineering and survey projects appear to do nothing but increase. Dependencies are trending and tend to explode.
Maybe…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 25, 2020
Tags DREF, TREF, IREF, data reference, data shortcut, reference, Dynamiic Model, Project Management, video
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
I intentionally employ the metaphor of the US Constitutional principal of the Separation of Powers to talk about how civil engineers and surveyors need to systematically manage to divide and conquer resources and more inside and around Civil 3D. The Arts of Separation help us all to employ the software successfully in production.
The principals of separation are, as they…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 16, 2020
Tags implementation, Project Management, Style Management, names, Dynamiic Model, change management, XREF, DREF, TREF, CAD Standards