People say that Civil 3D is too complicated. I say, “Baloney.” The scientific exploratory facts and conjectures in the post that follows confirm this. We must boldly go where no one has gone before.
People say water is simple. The physicist says,
“Not So Fast”
Late last year the popular press picked up and announced the discovery of a fourth…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 05, 2017
Tags WATT, Style, Style Management, layer state, Layer Standards
Long before April Fool’s Day, I saw a classic misinformation post about AutoCAD Civil 3D and named Plot Styles. The stated implication of the post was that Civil 3D object Styles had issues with STB based publishing. Therefore, you as a Civil 3D user should avoid STB and stick with the old CTB technology born back in the dark ages of CAD and pen plotters. All I can say is,
WATT?
What…
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All too often our human propensity to want to employ the AutoCAD tools we know tends to get in the way of productive work. People tend to think we use AutoCAD to draw pictures. But AutoCAD uses data to create pictures which is something entirely different. AutoCAD Civil 3D employs structured data to allow Civil 3D users to create representative, interactive models which is dissimilar yet again.
When…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 26, 2017
Tags data, spreadsheet, WATT
What if we could 3D print structures with a material ten times stronger than steel with only 5% of the density? Markus Buehler, the head of MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the research team of Zhao Qin, Gang Seob Jung, and Min Jeong Kang claim it can be done. Zhao Qin says he wants a space elevator built from their new material. Hear…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman Jan 10, 2017
I heard something on election night from a liberal political hack on a major news network about our recent historic US election. He mumbled,
“Where did these voters come from?”
A note to the deep blue fringe – progressives and humanists alike -
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We’ve been here all the time. We aren’t going to Canada.
Call this election diversity training.
We all hope…
Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 10, 2016
Tags WATT