Autodesk is making a serious push to get the folks in Civil 3D Land to employ Autodesk’s cloud-based BIM 360 solutions. You might tend to want to pursue an ostrich strategy for BIM 360. That might not be a good idea. In some project-based contexts BIM 360 makes sense where you have aware partners who want to play the collaboration game more deeply. BIM 360 can make the management…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 08, 2019
Tags Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2020, Infraworks, Update, Civil 3D 2019, interop, BIM 360, training, Connector
The Autodesk Civil programming group and others spent a good part of the last programming year working on the improved interoperability between Autodesk and ESRI applications. They also invested in their own internal software interop challenges in be it in Civil 3D, Map 3D, Infraworks, BIM 360, and some Extensions and Addons. If we do the work to make the code work in the daily grind for our clients,…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 01, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Release 8, Release 7, Adaptive Template Building Blocks, Update, CAD Standards, interop
There is a chance this post will yak about the new Infraworks 2020.1 release and the Civil 3D 2020.1+ Update wizbang before the new public build of Infraworks 2020.1 slaps us in the face. Autodesk has a bunch of important Infraworks/Civil 3D interop AddOns to update and sync up as well.
Autodesk has released public videos of some of the new Infraworks 2020.1 release features…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 26, 2019
Tags Infraworks, Civil 3D 2020, Update, ArcGIS, alignment, profile, interop, video
The Autodesk and ESRI interoperability agreement was big industry news last year. Some might say this was like Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali deciding to be best buds and then become a WWF tag team. Talk about being up in someone’s grill. Sorry George Foreman. I just couldn’t resist.
Both the BIM/AEC/CAD gorilla and the GIS gorilla had good strategic and tactical reasons to do this in the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 24, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, ArcGIS, interop, gis, parcel, alignment, feature line, video, Connector, ESRI
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