In Autodesk Civil 3D, we all know that the word template comes up time and time again. Heck. Out here in Civil 3D Land, we even have a Framework for Civil 3D product that we call Templates Only. Lots of customers say that Templates Only gets the essential Civil 3D Standards job done. Hoorah!
We all need many types of Civil…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 27, 2024
Tags Corridor Templates, DREF, grading, Set of Assemblies, corridor, corridor surface, video, Assembly, Subassembly
Inside Autodesk Civil 3D there are intimate, hierarchical relationships between an Alignment; its child Profiles; its child Offset Alignments; their slope-controlled Offset Profiles; Widenings; Intersections; Curb Return Alignments; and their Connected Alignment and Profile cousins.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
May 16, 2024
Tags alignment, connected alignment, offset alignment, baseline, feature line, DREF, corridor, corridor surface, grading, Grading Optimization
Out here in Civil 3D Land we do civil engineering and survey work. That means that grading and Civil 3D Surfaces play a significant part of our daily workflows. Thankfully, Autodesk has been working hard on improved Civil 3D performance. How we structure our Civil 3D Projects and how we perform some basic Civil 3D Project maintenance work can matter.
One…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Feb 08, 2024
Tags surface, corridor surface, Data Shortcut Manager, DREF, performance, Project Management, TIN, Civil 3D
Lots of us in Civil 3D Land love to whine about Site Grading in Autodesk Civil 3D. Many of us still employ the classic design by breaklines methodologies from our CAD historical past to produce our production grading designs in Civil 3D. It works. These days most of us might agree that Civil 3D Feature Lines are an improvement over AutoCAD 3D polylines.…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Mar 08, 2023
Tags grading, site design, feature line, Multiple Baseline Corridors, corridor, corridor surface, video
The Framework for Civil 3D fully supports multiple releases of Autodesk Civil 3D in a couple of flavors. The Framework is a continuously developed product. Significant and important improvements and updates are delivered to Framework for Civil 3D Jump Kit product customers on a regular basis.
Over the past year the Framework for…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Apr 20, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2022, Label Style, Expression Set, corridor surface, surface, grading, Volume Dashboard, TIN