In Civil 3D Land we hear this compliant all too often. I believe that it is safe to say that I have a healthy respect for the complexity of AutoCAD Civil 3D. Needless to say the Framework for Civil 3D is deep, detailed, and robust because all of that is required. This is a good capability thing in the end, but bad training news in the beginning.
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Tench Tilghman
Aug 11, 2016
Tags WATT, alignment, alignment type, alignment direction, Alignment Style, annotation, video
What is the economic value of a blog post about something outwardly arcane in AutoCAD Civil 3D? This question sometimes haunts me and all of us who are committed publically to making your Civil 3D workday a bit easier. What’s a 1000 words worth? We deliver. You have to pay attention. Lord knows, I am aware of how hard that is to do.
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 19, 2016
Tags alignment, group labels, reference labels, annotation, corridor, surface, Label Style
There are uncomfortable and unexpected truths squirrelled away in the simplest tasks in AutoCAD Civil 3D. Our CAD to model-based transition means some basic tasks are fundamentally different and seemingly more complex for no apparent reason. Yet a planned complexity can provide us with more bang for the buck and less work in the end. As I pointed out in a previous…
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Tench Tilghman
Feb 09, 2016
Tags Label Style, label, line label, curve label, annotation, names
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
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