It is a new year in Civil 3D Land. Civil 3D will change this year. There will be a new Autodesk Civil 3D 2024 Release. That upgrade is due to arrive during the Annual Autodesk Rite of Spring. We’ll see a new AutoCAD 2024 before then. The new software will be delivered with the usual rashers of ease-of-use goodies and promises of…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jan 11, 2023
Tags Civil 3D, Civil 3D 2024, Project Explorer, Grading Optimization, Multiple Baseline Corridors, Corridors, Upgrade, Training, video
We will wrap up the calendar year 2022 and unwrap a collection of the Top 5 Best Civil 3D Production Tips? Why not. Everyone loves a top five list. I use the production word here not the productivity one even though both do apply in this context.
This post may have a Civil 3D management and implementation bias over a classic set…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Dec 28, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2023, Civil 3D 2022, Civil 3D 2021, CAD Standards, Corridors, Data Shortcut Manager, TREF, DREF, Project Management, BIM Collaborate Pro
How many times in Autodesk Civil 3D do we get a complex civil engineering design or survey dataset right the first time? Almost never. This reality is a most important fact about Civil 3D. To employ Civil 3D constructively in a real-world project-based production environment, we need to plan to fail forward.
What the heck does that mean?Sounds like…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Sep 07, 2022
Tags iterations, DREF, design control, design state, grading, Multiple Baseline Corridors, DWF, iPOD, Project Management
A long-overdue Autodesk Civil 3D 2022.2 Update hit the street yesterday. The Civil 3D 2022 Update 2 is an important set of new interface improvements, significant performance enhancements, and critical fixes for Civil 3D. This Civil 3D Update makes our lives in Civil 3D better in a lot of ways. Don’t try to employ Civil 3D 2022 without it.
Almost…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 21, 2022
Tags Civil 3D 2022, Update, Jump Kit, Templates Only, pressure pipe, Multiple Baseline Corridors, Corridors
Autodesk Civil 3D includes many powerful and capable grading tools. We each develop our go to lists of favorites and preferred workflows to follow. Ted is a Feature Lines Only fanatic. Sally is a Site Design Corridor wunderkind. The company design group in Tulsa banned the use of Civil 3D Grading Objects in all projects. We know the drill.
Our preferred…
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Posted by
Tench Tilghman
Jun 16, 2022
Tags Grading Optimization, AEC Collection, Civil 3D 2023, grading, site design, Multiple Baseline Corridors, Corridors, video, implementation