We’ve been talking about Alignments in AutoCAD Civil 3D as Design Control Manager (DCM) objects. Alignments are a bucket of buckets collector. Alignments are indeed a Management interface tool allowing us lots of access to the interfaces and tools of managed control. Certainly part of DCM functionality is Annotative what with View Frames and what not. Read more
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Tench Tilghman
Apr 21, 2015
Tags profile, alignment, publiish, publish on demand, annotation
The Civil 3D Managed Dynamic Model means that if you plan ahead carefully you can set a lot of the Data Reference connections up in advance using simple "place holder" Features and then replace the connections later with more detailed or "complete" ones later.
It Pays To Be Prepared
In other words, you can use simple Feature stuff to do the Dynamic Model building up front and then…
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Tench Tilghman
Jan 13, 2015
Tags project, Project Management, uds, NCS, alignment, collector
If you must employ both Autodesk and Bentley civil engineering software some more help has arrived. In late October Autodesk released the Autodesk Civil Engineering Data Translator (CEDT) to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 subscription customers via the Autodesk Subscription Center.
Do We thank the Converts
One supposes we have one or more Autodesk State DOT customers to…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 07, 2014
Tags Bentley, Translator, conversion, Civil 3D, 2015, alignment, surface, profile
There is no such thing as a nonlinear corridor in Civil 3D by definition. Is this then a mythic post? Are we talking about Corridors of a Third Kind? Not really. In AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 we cannot create Alignments that connect back to themselves like the snake eating its tail or the famous dragon in Chinese myth. We have all seen dog that would chase his tail until exhausted. If you want to build…
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Tench Tilghman
Sep 23, 2014
Tags corridors, pond, parking lot, grading, alignment, offset aligment, widening
MoreCompetency released an AddOn to Parcels and Alignments for Release 5 Jump Kit customers who run the AutoCAD Civil 3D 2015 and Civil 3D 2014 releases this week.
The AddOn brings up some classic AutoCAD Civil 3D quandaries that the capabilities of Style are so helpful to resolve for us all.
Don’t Be Eroded
We performed…
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Tench Tilghman
Sep 16, 2014
Tags AddOn, parcel, alignment, annotation, erosion, Civil 3D 2014, Civil 3D 2015, 2014, 2015, Civil 3D