Better software tools can certainly automate a lot of the drudgery in civil engineering design and survey tasks. That’s a good thing. That is often reason enough to buy and upgrade your Civil 3D. We are waiting for the Civil 3D 2020.1 Update after all.
Our intention to increase our reported speed to results in Civil 3D can directly get in the path of better results. Speed…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 27, 2019
Tags corridor, intersection, alignment, offset aligment, profile, offset profile, video, design control, Civil 3D 2020, heuristics, QAQC
The Framework for Civil 3D supplies an amazingly detailed and complete set of adaptive and yet fully integrated Survey Codes, Description Key Sets, Points and Figures resolution tools to generate for Civil 3D users and organizations a more productive and much less painful Civil 3D point experience.
Many civil engineering design side people are astonished by the safe bet…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Aug 20, 2019
Tags alignment, point group, point, Point Label Style, iPOD, Civil 3D, not keys, fig, figure, customization, video
We must work within the current AutoCAD and Civil 3D limitations no matter what we wish for. This has been a serious Civil 3D adoption issue for way too many folks over the years.
Why doesn’t Civil 3D work like what I expect it should?If you like, you can call my previous post a rant or a HSSPHI (How to Steal Something…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 14, 2019
Tags View, View Frame, View Frame Group, DVIEW, alignment, design control, site design, site parcel, viewports, project template
We introduced in the latest Release 8 versions of the Framework for Civil 3D for Civil 3D 2019 and Civil 3D 2018, a much improved and innovative form of Civil 3D Style library collection. We call these Civil 3D Style library collected resources - Adaptive Template Building Blocks. It’s a new thing in Civil 3D Land.
People have asked, “What…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 23, 2019
Tags Style Management, Style, alignment, profile, section, feature line, Civil 3D 2018, Civil 3D 2019, Release 8, Adaptive Template Building Blocks
Last time we explored some basic iPOD (Intelligent Publish on Demand) workflow mechanics to help us deal with the annotation of Corridor models. We previewed that in a video to show the Civil 3D mechanics of how we can create Corridor Station…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Oct 19, 2018
Tags corridor, annotation, label, DREF, Civil 3D 2019, point group, Toolbox Reports, spreadsheet, alignment, video, iPOD