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I planned a video blog post on Nonlinear Corridors. However, I’ve been silenced by a nasty summer cold and a severe case of laryngitis. I should make a TV commercial. Recording that nonlinear video post will have to wait a bit.

Symbols Can Go Nonlinear Elsewhere

People do ask me,

“How do I customize the blocks in the Production Solution products?…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  customization, block, symbol, Symbol Set, AddOn, legend

We have a bunch of new release AutoCAD Civil 3D customers. What are people waiting for?

It’s about time to rehash the essentials of Sheet Set Template customization. Honestly, nothing significant has changed very much since the release of the AutoCAD 2006 products – a nice tweak here and there.

The same inherent madness and Autodesk built-in weirdness remains. (sigh)  Read more

Enough happens to us all. Enough is personal and powerfully social. My month of April was enough.

Enough is experiential like sex, money, and father or mother. This sort of word purposefully means different things. Money doesn’t mean the same thing to a ten-year old as it does to me. Meaning depends on our current context.

In…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  customization, implementation, management

It’s a fact, Jack. You invested money in the world’s most popular civil engineering and design software.  You (or someone else) will have work hard to make the software run productively and publish your civil engineering design or survey work acceptably.

Every Civil 3D user and expert will tell you, “You need a Civil 3D template.

They’re right - sort…

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The vast majority of Styles in AutoCAD Civil 3D are annotative. Mostly these are Label Styles although Table Styles can also help us out significantly as well. These Styles are designed to pump out the Civil 3D data we create in the Civil Features in alpha-numeric or “textual” formats.

When you check out the Label Styles in the Toolspace>>Settings tab you also discover the…

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