The calendar year 2020 portents to be more than the start of a new decade. We all likely expect the 2020 US election to be yet another watershed political event. How did the Playwright put it? “… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” I trust you do not miss the Solomonic allusion and sardonic irony implied in his famous words from McBeth. He did. Mind you,…
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Tench Tilghman
Dec 19, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Upgrade, Update, Jump Kit, interop, CAD Standards, Layer Standards, NCS, AIA, video
We all discover quickly that both migrating Civil 3D Projects to BIM 360 Design and employing Civil 3D in that cloud-based document management context is not quite the same as working locally and/or our own local network.
Even if you’re not ready to do the BIM 360 cloud thing today, this detailed post contains important Civil 3D maintenance tips and links that do apply to local and/or network…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 17, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Upgrade, Update, Migrate, implementation, BIM 360, project, Batch Save, Connector, Project Management
Autodesk wants civil engineers to start to employ Autodesk Civil 3D in their BIM 360 Design cloud environment. The latest Civil 3D 2020.2 release makes better managed, collaborative, and shared Civil 3D projects possible.
Inquiring minds want to know few important details:
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- How does Civil 3D in the cloud work?
- Does Civil 3D in the…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 12, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, Upgrade, BIM 360, Project Management, interop, video, Batch Save, Connector, ArcInfo
Do you still manually upgrade each and every Civil 3D template, Civil 3D Style resource drawing, and all your Civil 3D project drawings to a new Civil 3D Update or release? Yuck.
Even if your organization doesn’t quickly upgrade to the latest new Civil 3D release, there will always be Civil 3D Updates you must deal with.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 10, 2019
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, Batch Save, Upgrade, Update, implementation, lisp, script, scriptcall
The best kind of Christmas presents are the things that bring both joy to your life and to your daily work. When you can deliver that blessing to your friends, customers, and even people you don’t know, that can be a wonderful thing. Nothing is comparable to the Good News - the reason for the season. Some smaller things can be great news too. You catch the drift.
A lot of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 05, 2019
Tags Release 8, Jump Kit, Templates Only, Civil 3D 2020, AIA, Layer Standards, CAD Standards, Upgrade, Update, template, Reference Template, TREF, Style Library