I flap my lips, wave my hands about, and rant all the time about the importance of the Proactive System Management of the project-based Civil 3D data behind. Yes. This Civil 3D DREF stuff is important. A customer success story surrounding this Civil 3D model magic makes my day.
One Framework for Civil 3D customer, a Civil 3D CAD Manager for a good-sized…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Jan 20, 2021
Tags DREF, data shortcut, corridor, alignment, profile, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, video, Project Management, project template
Autodesk released the latest Civil 3D 2020.5.2 Update for Autodesk Civil 3D 2020 earlier this week. The latest Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.5.2 Update addresses remaining problematic issues with Feature Lines that are used as Corridor Baselines in the earlier Civil 3D 2020.5 and Civil 3D 2020.5.1 Updates.
The Civil 3D 2020.5.2 Update…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Dec 15, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2020, Update, corridors, feature line, site parcel, site, Upgrade, baseline
Autodesk introduced a new and much improved manage Data References tool in Autodesk Civil 3D 2020.1+. Autodesk also cascaded that same mission-critical code back into the Civil 3D 2019.3+ Updates. If you employ a reasonably current version of Civil 3D, there is better Data Reference (DREF) fix it tool. At the time, Autodesk sort of made a big deal about this. We all know that some…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 22, 2020
Tags DREF, data shortcut, corridor, alignment, profile, Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, video, Project Management, project template
What do you get when you Corona virus sequester a bunch of Autodesk Civil 3D and AutoCAD technical geeks who have nothing better to do than talk to the wall?
A barrage of training videos.Whether this barrage analogy references the Battle of Baghdad back in 2003 or the Battle of Verdun in WWI is a matter of some debate. There is a marked difference between precision delivered artillery…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Oct 08, 2020
Tags Civil 3D 2021, Civil 3D 2020, Civil 3D 2019, training, video, design, corridors
Autodesk made some quiet and undocumented changes to the default Corridor properties in the latest Autodesk Civil 3D 2021.1 Update. The Civil 3D 2021.1 Update’s new separate Inside and Outside Corridor Bowtie Settings for both Tangent and Arcs corner intersection resolutions. These changes can and do affect the default corner resolution behavior in Corridor Baseline…
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Posted by Tench Tilghman | Sep 29, 2020
Tags grading, corridor, site design, Assembly, baseline, region, video, design control, feature line, alignment, profile, bowties