The maintenance, upkeep, and Updates of our on-going Civil 3D Projects are a big deal for most of us in Civil 3D Land. Some persons handle that entire structure and process personally. Other groups plan to do it corporately. A few manage to Collaborate Pro. Most of the time, we all simply row and bail like mad to…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 17, 2021
Tags XREF, DREF, TREF, IREF, XML, Project Management, BIM Collaborate Pro, project template, Reference Template
The Framework for Civil 3D is all about the reduction of the many manhours spent to get Civil 3D to function as advertised in production Civil 3D project environments. The Autodesk Civil 3D software we employ every day is only as capable as the content tools we have and then must maintain. Now that’s a bit crazy.
The Framework for Civil 3D is all about the…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 23, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, AddOn, Jump Kit, Description Key Set, figure db, spreadsheet, XML, customization, Update, Upgrade
What are the most important features in Civil 3D? Autodesk has a different answer to that question for every new release of Civil 3D and each new Update for Civil 3D. Autodesk wants to answer the Features and Benefits sales and marketing questions. They do sell us software after all. Maybe whatever is the hot new Autodesk thing this time around floats your boat?…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 04, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, alignment, profile, corridor, feature line, surface, widening, landxml, video
If you use Autodesk Civil 3D in any release, the odds are that you employ LandXML (and some of the other supported ASCII text formats) inside your civil engineering and survey projects. If you don’t at least employ LandXML to backup and protect externally Civil 3D Features like Surfaces, Parcels, Alignments…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 30, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, landxml, alignment, profile, Quick Profile, surface, DREF, video, Description Key Set, figure prefix db
I prefer Gin over Vodka and a good IPA over both. I’m decidedly not James Bond. My car certainly doesn’t cut it. I totally missed the Cash for Clunkers thing. A stated choice of a lethal weapon would probably would not be polticially correct. We’ll avoid that trigger to focus on more important Civil 3D 2020.2 Update matters.
There have been Civil 3D related Updates and enhancements related…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 12, 2019
Tags SHP, XML, Property Set, points, feature line, figure, Enhancements, Civil 3D 2020, Update, utility, Connector, ESRI