Frankly, I was More than a bit surprised Autodesk decided to go with the “2013” moniker for the release. Were you? If Autodesk is not going to be superstitious, we shouldn’t be either.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 29, 2012
Tags performance, 2013, Civil 3D, profile, alignment
Last week I posted about Best Fit Alignments and Profiles in Civil 3D. Autodesk Labs also upped the game at least for "vertical alignment optimization".
Autodesk Labs released a cloud based application for 64-bit AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 called
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 12, 2011
Tags alignment, profile, best fit, autodesk labs
AutoCAD Civil 3D allows us to make new and More useful data out of nearly nothing.
This is what better and functional civil engineering design software should do.
The Common "I Need Control" Problem
We need to create some basic and MANAGABLE horizontal and vertical control for a roadway repavement, widening, or pipeline project. All we've got at the moment is some survey…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 05, 2011
Tags alignment, best fit, horizontal control
One of great new features of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 is it's ability to data reference Offset and Curb Return Alignment Features. I've already done some webinar training on this topic featuring a few things you can do with referenced Offset Alignments.
The new ability to keep your horizontal and vertical control…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jul 29, 2011
Tags alignment, group labels, annotation, Style, Label Style, Sets, linetype
For reasons AutoCAD Civil 3D Beta and More, I've been playing around a lot with Offset Alignments and Widenings. Indeed I am somewhat torturing the poooor Autodesk Beta QA people with a some baffling array of "challenges". Good news. They are being responsive and that means 2012 will be better :)
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