I sited my first house at the ripe age of 5. God knows why my parents listened to that youthful advice, but they did. Little did I know I had thereby condemned myself to a childhood of hauling groceries and wet laundry bags over a muddy road in the rain every winter. Trust me. It is possible to walk uphill to school both ways in a storm. As the only boy in our family bunch, the road rehab was too…
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Tench Tilghman
Apr 04, 2017
Tags survey, alignment, figure, parcel, intersection, survey db, video
The production mechanics of AutoCAD Civil 3D’s interconnected and project-based Dynamic Model is powerful. It can be overwhelming. Maybe we all aren’t so clear what that means at a practical and daily work level.
Long time CAD users are faced with a daunting certainty when they are confronted by Civil 3D. The simple world of basic CAD primitives is replaced by things that…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 28, 2017
Tags surface, alignment, parcel, dynamic model, bucket, training
This post is a follow-up to The Cascaded Civil 3D Intersection post and video which itself was itself a follow up to the Stop That Civil 3D Wizard post and video. Somehow a chain of blog post seems very appropriate given the subject of related Intersections and Complex Corridors in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
Since the Intersection…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 01, 2016
Tags intersection, alignment, profile, corridor, corridor surface, video
Before Autodesk University I posted about how to Stop the Intersection Wizard to create multiple interconnected Intersections in Civil 3D. Did you miss it? Our goal there was a Complex Corridor – a related and interconnected corridor model built and managed in part by Intersections.
I like to call the Intersection the Design Control Supervisor…
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Tench Tilghman
Nov 22, 2016
Tags intersection, corridor, alignment, horizontal control, vertical control, cross section control, video
The Wizard is an operative fact in modern software. Autodesk programmers love to employ the beasts. Wizards do make workflow and user data collection easier to manage. AutoCAD Civil 3D has more than a few mission critical ones.
The current Civil 3D publication methodology based on Alignments is very wizard centric. Our discussions of many details of that became part of our Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Nov 08, 2016
Tags alignment, intersection, horizontal control, vertical control, cross section control, video