The goal to significantly reduce those considerable man-hours we invest in the common Civil 3D civil engineering grading problems and tasks is certainly is worthy of pursuit. It is what we do. The work pays or it doesn’t. The boss knows that and demands the work had better pay.
Autodesk is working hard at the faster, better, grading challenges on a number of simultaneous…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 30, 2020
Tags grading, feature line, surface, wish, Civil 3D 2021, corridor, segment, node, video
At times I joke a bit about the Feature Lines Only design crowd in Civil 3D. I do this to contrast classic and manual Feature Line construction and manipulation methods with the advantages of managed Corridor Design methodologies that can produce multiple and controlled Feature Lines on demand. This is not a binary choice. Obviously, civil engineering folks need…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 16, 2020
Tags Civil 3D, segment, node, point, surface, alignment, optimization, optionality, profile, corridor, parcel, parcel segment, feature line
What are the most important features in Civil 3D? Autodesk has a different answer to that question for every new release of Civil 3D and each new Update for Civil 3D. Autodesk wants to answer the Features and Benefits sales and marketing questions. They do sell us software after all. Maybe whatever is the hot new Autodesk thing this time around floats your boat?…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jun 04, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Release 8, alignment, profile, corridor, feature line, surface, widening, landxml, video
All of us in Civil 3D Land know learning to come to grips with Civil 3D is easier said than done. Autodesk Civil 3D is a big complex piece of software. We must learn to manage and direct the Civil 3D Diva to deliver acceptable performances. We are talking about integrated software tools that must cope with the many and varied details of complex…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 26, 2020
Tags grips, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, alignment, feature line, profile, surface, video, corridor, point, parcel segment
To sub or not to sub. That is the question.
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Do you employ the Autodesk Civil 3D stock subassemblies or your own custom PKT files versions produced with the Civil 3D Subassembly Composer to produce Assemblies used in Baseline Regions in your Corridor designs? As in the norm with the Civil 3D Diva, we soon discover there is…
Posted by Tench Tilghman | May 05, 2020
Tags subassembly composer, Subassembly, Assembly, Assembly Set, corridor, region, Code Set Styles, codes, video